I installed a second HD as a slave (jumper and cable) into my computer.
The drive has nothing on it. Now when i turn the computer on just after the bios POST it seems to hang for about a minute before loading the windows logo screen. Any ideas?

Its not a major problem as it still boots into windows, can be just a bit annoying.

System Spec:
ASUS M2V-MX SE MoBo
AMD64 Sempron 3400+
1Gb DDR2 Memory
Gigabyte Geforce 7200 GS
Primary HD: Maxtor 40gb IDE with Windows
Slave: Maxtor 80gb IDEAre you sure it's set as a slave?

Can you check out the boot menu in the BIOS and make sure it's last on the list (if it's there)Yep already checked it.
Their listed correctly in there.maybe it just does that because you attached a new hard disk so the desktop still as to search it. Just to make sure it's not a problem with your computer, remove the Slave Hard Drive and see if the problem remains.OK i REMOVED the slave hd and started up. Loaded fine, didnt hang at all.

So i plugged the hd back in and started up again. Now loads fine.

I dont know what happened but unplugging it and plugging it back in seemed to do the trick maybe it wasnt plugged in properly.

Thanks anyway!Hehe, Good JOB.