For decades I've put the boot drive on the lowest port or ID (IDE, SATA, SCSI doesn't matter) but it sounds like you have the SSD out there.
Bob
I recently replaced my 80 GB C: drive with a 128GB Kingston SV300 SSD, (leaving my second 200GB hard drive in place). Now, when I power up, the BIOS status panel comes up and stays 'idle' for about 2 minutes, with a flashing cursor and an offer to hit Ctrl-I to open the config utility. (Doing so just restarts the boot - I would have to hit F2 to actual get the utility). After this pause windows starts normally and all is well -- actually, it's a very prompt Windows 7 startup.
While waiting for this to happen, I noticed that my disk configuration is listed as Port 00 - my second HDD; port 01 - CDROM; port 04 - the SDD. Both port 0 and port 4 are noted as 'Controlled by RAID BIOS'.
This behavior is new with the SDD. Should I be changing some BIOS setting? Is it doing a memory test or something? Should I be updating the BIOS?
Configuration is a Dell Dimension E520, 4GB RAM, BIOS Dell 2.4.0 dated 5/24/2007.
Thanks for any suggestions
Perryb

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