Slow boot after disconnecting IDE

[marijnkool]

I'm trying to get past Starforce with King Kong using DT 4.00, so I've disconnected my one and only DVD-drive; both power and serial cable. I don't have a floppy drive, so my hard disk was the only master/slave device (how do you call it?) left.
After disconnecting, the computer takes a long time booting, especially (ofcourse) when it normally auto-detects the dvd-drive. Is there any way to avoid this? Turning off auto-detect or something else? I've searched in my BIOS, but couldn't find anything there.

I've managed to install King Kong, so (maybe a stupid question) is it OK to reconnect my dvd-drive now? Or would that ruin it all?

Thanks beforehand!

My motherboard:
MSI 915p Neo2 1.0b - BIOS 3.6

[Underheaven]

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Were your DVD-drive and hard disk on the same ribbon cable?

[mwb1100]

On my machines (Dell), if the BIOS is set to auto-detect for a particular IDE address (for example IDE 1, Slave), but there's no device attached there the boot takes a very long time before it figures that out.

For any IDE address that has no device, I have to set that in the BIOS to explicitly say there's no device at that address in order to get a decent boot time.

[ISO]

I've managed to install King Kong, so (maybe a stupid question) is it OK to reconnect my dvd-drive now? Or would that ruin it all?

Its compleatly OK to reconnect ur dvd drive. when u want to play just shutdown and unplug ur dvd again.

[marijnkool]

Yes, they were indeed!

[Underheaven]

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Yes, they were indeed (on the same ribbon cable)

Then I'd check to make sure the hard drive is a master and the 'cable select jumper' is not used. It might work as well with the hard drive as slave and not using the cable select jumper (not sure). AND all the advice posted by the people above is great too.

p.s. When I mention don't use the 'cable select jumper' I don't mean don't use any jumper settings at all-- I mean just put it on the proper master or slave setting (whatever is correct).

[marijnkool]

I'm not familiar with jumper settings. How do I check if there are no jumper settings used?
I had the master-bit of the ribbon cord in de harddrive. I tried it with the slave-bit, but the same slow booting occurred.

[Underheaven]

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Well it sounds like you've solved the problem by making your HD master and your optical drive slave. Good news.