Slow Startup after installing new SATA Hard Drive

I just installed a new SATA Hard Drive two days ago, after it was installed I
always get slow startup. 1-3 minutes at Window XP Screen, then about 5-10
mintues after Welcome screen.

For more information:
The SATA HD type is Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 160GB.
This is the first SATA HD that I installed in my PC.
I had other two HD which is IDE (ATA) HD. One of them is which I installed
my Windows.
The SATA HD shows up as ST316021 5AS SCSI Disk Device.
There are SCSI/RAID Host Controller and VIA SATA RAID Controller installed.
The SATA HD doesn't appear as Master/Slave in BIOS. (Is this normal?)

I don't know this is related or not, after I installed the new SATA HD,my
other HD which Windows was installed shows an abnormality in SMART Value.
Here is Screenshot of Speedfan now:
http://i131.photobucket.com/albums/p320/sepirotica/Speedfan0.jpg

Before the last shutdown of my computer this morning , the Value of Both
"Raw Read Error Rate" and "Hardware ECC Recovered" attributes is still 62.
But when I turned on my computer again this afternoon Both attributes value
decreased into 60.

I wonder if the new SATA HD stressed HD especially on startup/bootup so it
caused physical damage to my other HD. There still also another possibilities
about what caused this too but I want to set these aside first.

Could someone tell me how to solve the slow bootup and this problem?
I will post more if this abnormality happen again after my next Windows
startup.

Melina wrote:
> I just installed a new SATA Hard Drive two days ago, after it was installed I
> always get slow startup. 1-3 minutes at Window XP Screen, then about 5-10
> mintues after Welcome screen.
>
> For more information:
> The SATA HD type is Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 160GB.
> This is the first SATA HD that I installed in my PC.
> I had other two HD which is IDE (ATA) HD. One of them is which I installed
> my Windows.
> The SATA HD shows up as ST316021 5AS SCSI Disk Device.
> There are SCSI/RAID Host Controller and VIA SATA RAID Controller installed.
> The SATA HD doesn't appear as Master/Slave in BIOS. (Is this normal?)
>
> I don't know this is related or not, after I installed the new SATA HD,my
> other HD which Windows was installed shows an abnormality in SMART Value.
> Here is Screenshot of Speedfan now:
> http://i131.photobucket.com/albums/p320/sepirotica/Speedfan0.jpg
>
> Before the last shutdown of my computer this morning , the Value of Both
> "Raw Read Error Rate" and "Hardware ECC Recovered" attributes is still 62.
> But when I turned on my computer again this afternoon Both attributes value
> decreased into 60.
>
> I wonder if the new SATA HD stressed HD especially on startup/bootup so it
> caused physical damage to my other HD. There still also another possibilities
> about what caused this too but I want to set these aside first.
>
> Could someone tell me how to solve the slow bootup and this problem?
> I will post more if this abnormality happen again after my next Windows
> startup.
>

The part number for the drive shouldn't have a space in it. It would
be a ST3160215AS.

Since in your posting, you mention the words "VIA SATA", you should use a
jumper on the back of the drive, to set the drive to 150MB/sec
cable transfer rate. (The cable is serial and runs at 1.5Gigabits/sec.
The encoding method is 8B10B code, with an 80% data content. Multiplying
through, and dividing by 8 to get bytes, is where the 150MB/sec transfer
rate comes from.)

Modern SATA drives auto-negotiate the transfer speed. If the chipset
is capable of running at 300MB/sec, that is how the drive will talk
to it. If the chipset is an older one, the drive will use the slower
150MB/sec transfer rate, automatically.

The exception is with some VIA chipsets. For those, you should install
a jumper on the back of the drive, to force the drive to stay at
150MB/sec. Now, chances are, the drive has done that on its own, so
I don't know if adding the jumper is going to make a big difference
to your symptoms or not. But give it a try.

The following is an *example* of what drive documentation can look like.
I don't know if the particulars shown here, apply to your drive or
not. But this demonstrates the basic idea. The label pasted to the
top of the disk drive, may show similar pictures of a four pin
jumper block, and where to stick a jumper on the pins, to do
a "force 150".

http://www.seagate.com/images/support/en/us/cuda_sata_block.gif

It is painful to find that information on the Seagate site.

http://www.seagate.com/ww/v/index.jsp?locale=en-US&name=Serial_ATA_Jum...s_and_C

Paul