Reasonable setting of IDE to solve Win XP startup slow

into Windows XP slow start for many reasons, but nothing more than loading system files, hardware drivers and some programs caused. For this situation, most of them can be solved by system optimization software such as optimization master, super magic rabbit and other tools, and users with stronger ability can modify the registry to speed up the startup.

But I was recently stumped when I helped a friend solve the slow startup problem of Windows XP. Using optimization tools, super magic rabbits and other tools, modify the registry, have tried one by one, the startup is still slow, the progress bar brush more than 20 laps. After the author used the exclusion method to eliminate hardware problems (NF2 motherboard-8RDA+, CPU XP2500+, memory 2×256MB, graphics card ATI9550, hard disk fish 120GB), the system is Windows XP integrated SP1, DX9.0B, motherboard driver is nForce4. 24. The graphics card driver was Catalyst 4.8, and no problems were found. When I open the device manager and check the IDE device to find the problem, the startup is very likely to be caused by detecting the IDE device (Figure 1). Of the four ports in the IDE channel, ports that are not connected to the device are directly disabled (Figure 2). That is to say, tell Windows XP, I don't have an IDE device on some ports, don't waste time checking.诀窍 It's here: If you don't have an IDE device on one of your ports, change "Automatically detect" to "None". After a reasonable setting of the IDE channel, the progress bar is brushed 3 times at startup and the problem is solved.