I have an XPS 410. Recently the BIOS pauses for about 30 seconds on the SATA screen when booting.
I found that if I switch SATA to ATA emulation then there is no pause but Vista won't boot.
When I look at the boot sequence in the BIOS it shows the SATA hard drive as 'not present'. It does not show that for the CD-ROM which is also SATA. I also noticed that if I put a bootable CD-ROM in the drive, it will boot even though that is only second in the boot sequence after the hard drive.
I found that if I switch SATA to ATA emulation then there is no pause but Vista won't boot.
When I look at the boot sequence in the BIOS it shows the SATA hard drive as 'not present'. It does not show that for the CD-ROM which is also SATA. I also noticed that if I put a bootable CD-ROM in the drive, it will boot even though that is only second in the boot sequence after the hard drive.