Hello Andre, I have on IDE-0 a normal 7200rpm HDD. I do not have cd-rom, or dvd-rom. I was thinking that that hdd will be, but i disabled from bios the ide channel, and nothing changed... There still was 2 storports, and there still was the delay from second 2 to 4, so i`ve enabled it again.. No change in delays with or without the ide hdd. Also if u look in drivers delay, some are loading on second ~6 , some on second ~10, some on second ~12. But what he is doing between second 6 and 10 ?! or betwen 10 and 12 ?! All the services i see them starting and finishing at sec 12, what delays them not loading earlyer !? i think my cpu and ram can handle them easy and earlyer, How much seconds to boot you consider to be a "fast boot" ?! Can be the cause my hdd speeds !? my raid have an average of 7ms access time. Thanks.