First of all, here are my system specs:
Dell Studio XPS 435mt running Vista 64-bit
cpu: i7 920 processor @ 2.67 ghz
gpu: xfx radeon 6970
PSU: antec earthwatts 650w
RAM: stock 6GB
BIOS only has ATA or RAID options available for drive config. No AHCI.
Okay, so firstly I swapped my gpu and upgraded my psu to accommodate it. Since this took up space, I bought a dock for my OS HDD to run in. It is connected via eSata, and everything ran well.
A few weeks ago I bought the Crucial 128GB m4 SSD to make booting faster. I installed my operating system on the SSD from the dell OS DVD.
I tried to boot fromthe computer, and I had the option to select which OS. I selected the appropriate one, and the green loading bar appears for a few seconds and disappears. Then the screen stays blank for approximately 5 minutes. I gave it a few more tries, but it kept taking that amount of time.
Then, I read the optical drive can be an issue so I went into the BIOS and disabled everything at boot, except for the SSD and the original HDD. The boot time did not change. I finally unplugged my SATA optical drive from the system, and the boot went as quickly as I had hoped (30-40 seconds from power on to full desktop). But now if I want to use a disc, I have to plug the drive back in after turning off the computer, and then endure a REALLY long boot. What could be the issue?
On a side note, maybe unrelated, when I choose the SSD as the only boot device I get this message "No boot device available". I then have to go back in and add the HDD to the boot device list. I don't understand why this could be the case, as the SSD has the OS installed as well and I know everything is running off it when I boot from it. Help please?
Any questions, let me know. If anyone can shed some light on this issue, I would greatly appreciate it.
Thank you,
Matt
Dell Studio XPS 435mt running Vista 64-bit
cpu: i7 920 processor @ 2.67 ghz
gpu: xfx radeon 6970
PSU: antec earthwatts 650w
RAM: stock 6GB
BIOS only has ATA or RAID options available for drive config. No AHCI.
Okay, so firstly I swapped my gpu and upgraded my psu to accommodate it. Since this took up space, I bought a dock for my OS HDD to run in. It is connected via eSata, and everything ran well.
A few weeks ago I bought the Crucial 128GB m4 SSD to make booting faster. I installed my operating system on the SSD from the dell OS DVD.
I tried to boot fromthe computer, and I had the option to select which OS. I selected the appropriate one, and the green loading bar appears for a few seconds and disappears. Then the screen stays blank for approximately 5 minutes. I gave it a few more tries, but it kept taking that amount of time.
Then, I read the optical drive can be an issue so I went into the BIOS and disabled everything at boot, except for the SSD and the original HDD. The boot time did not change. I finally unplugged my SATA optical drive from the system, and the boot went as quickly as I had hoped (30-40 seconds from power on to full desktop). But now if I want to use a disc, I have to plug the drive back in after turning off the computer, and then endure a REALLY long boot. What could be the issue?
On a side note, maybe unrelated, when I choose the SSD as the only boot device I get this message "No boot device available". I then have to go back in and add the HDD to the boot device list. I don't understand why this could be the case, as the SSD has the OS installed as well and I know everything is running off it when I boot from it. Help please?
Any questions, let me know. If anyone can shed some light on this issue, I would greatly appreciate it.
Thank you,
Matt
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