re: Slow boot
Wednesday, November 22, 2006 at 4:24 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by C K
(6528 messages posted)
Generally a hardware issue, usually a stall before, or when handing off to the boot
hard drive. Is this the same HDD that you started out with?? Some of the older
drives would cause this, especially if they were not jumpered correctly for a Master
with Slave installed (mostly the older WDs and a few Maxtor models).. A troublesome
floppy drive (and CD drives) can also stall the booting. Have you tried disconnecting
everything except the booting HDD, disabling the floppy in the BIOS (and physically
disconnect it) to see what happens? Could be deeper hardware issues but it takes
diagnostics hardware installed into the machine to really diagnose a deeper problem
IME.. Worst case is it is an issue with the motherboard, which wouldn't surprise
me with Acer.. :-(
On Wednesday, November 22, 2006 at 6:06 am, Alex wrote:
>Hi there,
>
>Well, since I have XP PRO (5 years) I have a booting problem that nobody has been
>able to solve so far.
>
>Now, after some years, I try again, maybe there's more experience around and some
>of you can help.
>
>When I switch my desktop on, I get all the disk controls etc. in DOS, then, a blank
>screen for 27 sec., finally the Windows XP image page that introduces to all the
>windows booting process.
>
>The 27 sec. are a constant since day one, in the past I tried Bootvis and did whatever
>was possible to reduce the booting time, but no changes.
>I also formatted my PC, no change.
>All the services are perfectly matching my needs, therefore the ones I do not need
>are disabled.
>
>My machine is clean, no spywares, no malware, no virus or so, the registry is clean.
>
>After 5 years the bloody 27 sec. are there and still, do not know why.
>
>Connection is not the problem, I was on cable before, on ADSL now, same story.
>
>I still hope somebody can help me to understand, I never lose my hope :)
>
>Thank you guys.
>
>Alex
>
>AOPEN AX34, PIII 1.0 GHz, 1GB RAM, HD Maxtor 40GB, HD WD 120 GB, LaCie 500 GB,
>Plextor 16/10/40A, Plextor PX-716A, HIS Excalibur Radeon 9600 256Mb, 2xMonitor Philips
>109P20 Br, Canon i865, Ethernet D-Link DE-828CT, Philips ToUCam Pro, WXP PRO
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