Delay in pc boot

[hjpotter92]

I recently purchased PC with following specs
i7 920 process of 2.67GHz,Mother Board intelDX58SO, RAM 1GBx3 of 1333MHz FSB Transcend , NVIDIA graphic card 9600 GS of 776MB,SATA 320 GB HDD, the monitor is Samsung syncMaster 920nw
KB & Mouse PS2 into USB loaded with WinXp Proff 64bit experimentally, PS is Zebronics 600 Watt. DVD writer is connected at SATA0, HDD on SATA1.
Problem is "display starts after 90 s & shows message Adapter 1,Disk information:
No hard disk detected!"
thereafter it takes 80 s for which screen remains blank to start windows. Win takes about 30 s to launch.
there is nothing more is loaded on it at present.
plz tell why is it so long to boot. & why the message of no disk detected comes.What is wrong with it?
Plz help early.
thanks
Devesh(father)

 

[arpanmukherjee1]

this you might have done already:
change boot priority first to hdd. remove any cd/dvd except for bootable OS.

if this does not work :
try default settings for all cpu and ram voltages (generally the safe values), if the MB did come overclocked from the factory.

still another method:
try fixing mbr by FIXMBR command from the recovery colsole of xp bootable cd....

 

[hjpotter92]

he did everything you wrote. Nothing helped him.

 

[Disc_Junkie]

Check this two links: *forums.anandtech.com/messageview.aspx?catid=83&threadid=2217403

*forums.amd.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=12&threadid=108811&enterthread=y&STARTPAGE=1

 

[hjpotter92]

I have another question too. it is about the intel's dx58SO motherboard. What are mthe uses of e-SATA ports at the back, and what is 1394 net Adapter?

 

[arpanmukherjee1]

1394 net adapter is the IEEE name given to firewire port (firewire is the name given by apple to it).
e-SATA is used to connect external hdd.

firewire can be used to connect hdd that support firewire like Segate 1TB drive or some printers or fast ethernet cables for high-speed local connectivity.


e-sata is provided with laptop hdd for external connectiviy example Hitachi hdd with Dell XPS series

 

[hjpotter92]

Thank you very much. I searched for e-sata, but none of them were informative.