[mstlelc]

Here is an error I get very often listed under: Computer Management/System Tools/Event Viewer/System. In fact, tonight already, I have gotten 174 errors involving atapi.

Event Type: Error
Event Source: atapi
Event Category: None
Event ID: 9
Date: 10/9/2007
Time: 11:14:33 PM
User: N/A
Computer: MTED-XSU9OUH5Z7
Description:
The device, \Device\Ide\IdePort0, did not respond within the timeout period.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft....link/events.asp.
Data:
0000: 0f 00 50 00 01 00 a4 00 ..P...¤.
0008: 00 00 00 00 09 00 04 c0 .......À
0010: 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0018: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0020: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0028: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0030: 00 00 00 00 07 00 00 00 ........
0038: 40 00 00 0e 00 00 01 00 @.......
0040: 00 20 0a 12 40 03 20 00 . ..@. .
0048: 00 02 00 00 0a 00 00 00 ........
0050: 00 70 b8 82 a0 a0 b3 82 .p¸‚ ³‚
0058: 00 00 00 00 70 8e b8 82 ....pŽ¸‚
0060: 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0068: 28 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 (.......
0070: 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........

Also, the computer is taking at least 5 minutes to load XP in the black back ground with Windows XP on the screen and the blue dots going left to right.

I don't think it's my mobo because that wouldn't explain why the Primary IDE worked in the DMA mode while it was hooked up to the CD drives but not the HD's. The problem seems to follow the HD's.