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, eric(c) <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
>
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