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Odd startup sequence
Howdy
Ive been doing some work on my friends computer. He has a Gigabyte Ultra Durable 3 Motherboard. (he has windows 7 ultimate x86)
Firstly when you start it up it goes to the Gigabyte Ultra Durable 3 screen (normal) and then the display flashes off and then the Gigabyte Durable 3 screen comes back and then it goes to the DMI pool screen and then it says starting windows. Then the monitor turns off and then say 30 seconds later the monitor comes back on and it goes welcome screen and then desktop. All in all it gets there.
My computer on the other hand (I have Windows 7 Home premium x64) also Gigabyte Durable 3 Mboard does it all in one smooth motion, no loss of monitor part way through.
Now I know this is not hard disk/windows related as I have been through a massive post with the guys over at Setup and Installation and they have put me though the works.
Now his 2 external drives are on all the time. It was only though an accident that I had them turned off today and did a reboot then wola the start up sequence was perfect.
So this is it. External drives on, dodgy start up. External drives off, perfect start up
What do you think of that?
Thanks