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That's only due to the fact that 'boot priority' will be reset to defaults (#1: optical drive; #2: HDD) when you enable AHCI, so you just have to remove your Disc Drive from the boot devices list.With AHCI enabled, regardless of my first boot device, it always checks for media in my SATA DVD-RW, which takes about 4 to 5 seconds.
EDIT: And YES, threads of the type "What's your..." and "Show us your..." are bragging threads to a certain extend BUT envy serves as a great motive to optimize your system to gain those 2% of extra performance that separate your system to the one of Person X with the higher scores!
PS: Good thing I'm not a big fan of Freudian psycho-analysis because then one had to argue that it all comes down to "What's /Show us... [the size of your weener]!
EDIT2: ...which leads us to an entirely new interpretation of the acronym WEI!
I'll have to check my box sometime with AHCI on and my boot order. It's possible that my box too is scanning my DVD as well thus adding seconds to the boot time.
Well, tried that over the weekend... But no matter what I try (short of disconnecting my DVD-RW) my BIOS adds the DVD drive into the boot list every time anyway. Slightly irritating since my PC won't start up if there is a non-bootable disk in my drive, but I never leave any disks in my PC anyway.