Long Boot Time after updating ASMBE 
 
Symptom(s):
After unpacking and updating the Adaptec* Serial ATA RAID Management Utility (latest version available on support.intel.com for this server board is ASMBE.EXE, version 1.25.004 of 03/10/2004) and immediately rebooting your server, you may experience long boot times.  You may also observe some services not being loaded and errors appearing in the error log.

Cause:
The image path for the I/O manager is mistakenly put between quotes (" ") and therefore cannot be read.

Solution:
After installing ASMBE.EXE, do not immediately restart your server.  Instead, back up your Windows* registry to a safe location, and then edit the following registry key:

Local machine-System-Current control services-iomanager

Please remove the quotes (" ") from the image path. Then restart your server.


Affected Operating Systems:
  Windows* 2000
  Windows* XP Professional
  Windows* XP Home Edition
  Windows Server* 2003
  Windows* 2000 Server
  Windows* 2000 Advanced Server
  Windows Server* 2003 Standard Edition 

Affected Intel(r) Server boards:
  Intel® Entry Server Board SE7210TP1-E 
  Intel® Entry Server System SR1325TP1-E 
 
Please refer to http://www.intel.com/support/motherboards/server/sb/cs-022946.htm for detail information.