I put the SeaTools floppy in the floppy drive and turned off my pc. While it was off, I replaced the cable that runs from my hdd to the mobo. I booted and there was no change. SeaTools is supposed to run in DOS but my pc went straight to Windows. My floppy drive is first in the boot sequence in CMOS but my pc isn't recognizing the disk. The floppy drive works fine, no problems with read/write.
So now I'm going to update BIOS. Would someone let me know which ones to install. For the driver, I downloaded 3124_x64_11110_logo SiI 3124 64-bit Windows BASE Driver but I haven't installed it yet, not sure if it's the right one. I have RAID Array capability but i'll never use it, so it eliminates a lot of the BIOS update choices but there are still a few that sound identical so I'm not sure which one to use.
I'd appreciate it if someone would let me know.
I use Avast, not AVG, and Windows Firewall.
This problem that I'm having started suddenly. It didn't happen over time. One time it booted up in its usual 1 to 2 minutes, the next time it took 15 mins.