Abit Hotrod100 pro+w2k=very slow boot

[jomppa 0]

I have installed a hotrod RAID card (with HPT 370 chip). It has the latest bios and drivers. The first few times windows 2000 boots normally, but now it stops for 5-10 minutes in middle of the boot process. After continueing the booting, the system works normally without troubles.

 

Is there something to do with this delay? There are no IRQ-conflicts (and I am using standard-PC hal).

 

Should I make a clean install?

 

My system is:

Asus P5A-B

AMD K6-2/500 MHz (not overclocked)

192 MB PCI-100 RAM

Samsung SpinPoint 10 GB (in HR-IDE0)

Quantum L? 10 GB (in HR-IDE1)

Sony 140E-CD/RW (in Asus-IDE0)

SBLive!

Ati Xpert2000

Ethernet Card (winbond chipset)

Abit HotRod 100 Pro RAID (HPT 370)

[jomppa 0]

I had the windows swap file in second IDE drive (quantum). When I moved it back to the boot drive (samsung) the boot time reduced from 15 minutes to 1 minute. Wow!