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Stop Bios Scan for IDE Drives, I have all SATA drives

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wolf2009

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I have all SATA drives, but the bios wastes like 15s scanning for IDE drives. How do i disable it ?

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Disabling the IDE channel in bios altogether? It's in the Integrated Peripherals section of your bios.
 

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Benchmark Scores I dont have time for that.
unless you have something in the bios that lets you disable it spacifically i dont think you can their programmed to do it because of the chance that a user will have one.
 
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Are you 100% sure it's scanning for IDE drives? Most of these scans scan for drives on a RAID controller and you should be able to disable that controller if you don't use it.
 
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Are you 100% sure it's scanning for IDE drives? Most of these scans scan for drives on a RAID controller and you should be able to disable that controller if you don't use it.

ya it says detecting IDE drives
 
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Given the fact that you only have one IDE slot, you'll most likely have one controller as well :D
I know my SATA RAID controller has an in-BIOS option to set the wait time... But I don't really know anything more if you've already disabled the controller itself...
 

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sata is translated into ide on alot of boards. even my x58 says DET_IDE but its scanning for sata drives.
 
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