Marvell 88SE61xx IDE BIOS Ultra Slow on Boot-up (Solved)

Published: 2008-12-06 5:11 PM -06:00 in Hardware Networking

By Christopher Abichandani (Continuum Concepts, LLC)

So I upgraded a Virtual Machine Host to an ASUS P5Q Pro and 3Ghz Core 2 Duo. The installation went smoothly except for a couple things. One of them was that the Marvell BIOS would hang for over a minute with every bootup. This was pretty annoying but I eventually fixed it by changing the single optical drive that was on the IDE controller from Cable Select to Master. Now the BIOS takes only a couple seconds!