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Old July 13th, 2004 Top | #1
 
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Default VERY slow boot
when i boot my computer it goes ok until the xp loading screen... it stays there with that small loading bar anything up to around 3 minutes, i have no idea why its doing this, are there any programs or ways in windows i can find out exactly whats taking place when it loads to see if i can find my problem.

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tried defragging hard drive? and/or running chkdsk

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1) download and run bootvis

2) when in windows go to run>msconfig and see if there's anything wierd starting up.

3) Longshot, but I've seen this happen with older version 5 of CD Creator when DirectCD isn't updated correctly.
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Maybe also check device manager - are there any device issues that you know of? My thinking is that maybe it is trying to resolve a device issue and has to reach a timeout value before it can proceed.
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if the pc is on a home/business network then you will need to assign a fixed ip
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maybe you have a nasty corrupted driver. I had this kind of problem with intel application accelerator. Maybe I hope not your HD is on it's way to meet it's maker.
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i'm not on a network
all my devices are fine }
all my drivers are fine } as everything works great once actually in windows
i dont use those CD progs
and i dont think i can actually check my boot from msconfig.. i am talking about the actual XP loading screen in DOS where it has the 3 little blocks scrolling it does this for a very long time.. not the actual starting up of explorer, msnmsg, sndvol... and all the other apps that load to run windows.

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do you have a network card installed tho ?
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as i said, run bootvis, it *should* show you where it's hanging
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disable the network card and see if it still hangs, and yeh bootviz it, see whats hanging
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anyone got a link to bootvis i tried to search google butit wont let me on

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bootvis link:

http://www.softpedia.com/public/cat/12/2/12-2-1.shtml

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Start MSCONFIG,

and on the BOOT.INI page, check the option /SOS
It will give you a listing (something like a Linux box booting - but that of Linux is much nicer) of what is being started up. You can see there whats causing the delay...


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