re: Question about 'Things that slow down system bootup'
Saturday, January 11, 2003 at 3:08 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Rich P.
(6 messages posted)
[FollowUP] I found this webpage
that has a "blurb" on SP1 causing unknown/mysterious slowdowns on some computers
after installation. No fix has been found yet. Although from the users who have posted
similar symptoms, I am beginning to believe it could be processor related to the
AMD Athlon 1.3/1.4 gHz CPUs.
If I find anything else, I'll post again.
On Friday, January 10, 2003 at 4:49 am, Rich wrote:
>I have a question about Things
>that slow down system bootup:
>
>I have a "brand new" system that I am throwing together for my wife. The system
consists
>of:
>
>AMD 1333 mHz Athlon Thunderbird CPU
>
>Iwill KK-266 motherboard
>256 megabyte PC-133 SDRAM
>IBM Deskstar 60-gig 7200 RPM Hard drive
>AGP 4x MX440 64-meg video card
>
>Philips PSC605 sound card
>
>I am formatting the HD as a full 60-gig partition and installing Windows XP Professional
>from scratch. I have installed Nvidia's latest all-in-one video drivers (version
>41.09) as well as the sound card drivers that came on CD. Here's my dilemma - Everything
>works great with the computer and boot time from power-off to full-up windows is
>about 21 seconds (according to BootVis). Once I install Service Pack 1, my boot
time
>takes about 5 minutes. The strange thing is that BootVis still reports less than
>30 seconds to boot. Yet on start-up, once POST has occurred, I see a black screen
>for about a minute-thirty, then I see the black screen with the white status-bar
>across the bottom for another two to three minutes, and eventually the slider reaches
>the right-hand side of the screen and I momentarily see the WinXP welcome splash
>screen for an add'l thirty seconds. Once I'm into Windows, everything works fine,
>functions fine. I've even attempted a safe-boot and I see the identical symptoms
>with the exception that I can see what system files/drivers are loading, but they
>are excruciatingly/irritatingly slow. I've searched the web a bit and found one
"article"
>asking for opinions on SP1 when it was released and I saw many complaints about
SP1
>causing a slow-down, but I have not seen anyone fully address the issue with some
>sort of solution. Any help would be GREATLY appreciated. I don't want to run the
>system without SP1, unless I have to, and I would rather not go back to Windows
2000.
>
>
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