I don't remember - does the boot log have time stamps? Dazed_75 wrote: > Too bad M$ thinks we are too stupid to show us all the startup messages > that might allow you to see what is taking so long! :P > > On 12/31/06, *ericİ* < ericlists@gmail.com > > wrote: > > I just picked up a quad Xeon server today. Verified working > operation before I took it home. It was running Windows Server > 2003, and booted up quite quickly. The guy cleared the SCSI RAID > configs, and handed it over. I brought it home, and found the > CD-ROM drive didn't want to release the tray. Didn't have any > floppies on hand, so I just tossed my boot hard drive in the machine > and installed a copy of Windows Server 2003 to the IDE drive (yes, I > know this is a Linux list). Would have preferred Debian on there, > but without a working CDROM, and no floppies......(I'm planning on > stopping by Fry's this weekend to pick up a new CD-ROM drive for it) > > Anyways, the only thing I changed on the machine after getting it > was setting up the 6 SCSI drives as one big stripe, and made the IDE > drive the primary boot drive. Took over 3 hours to install Windows, > and takes well over 20 mins just to boot now. Doesn't appear to be > an issue with the IDE drive, as the majority of the time, there is > no disc access. Once I log in, everything is quite snappy. I also > noticed that the file copies in setup went by really quick. > > Any ideas? > > eric > -- -Eric 'shubes' --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss