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re: Question about 'Things that slow down system bootup'
Monday, January 26, 2004 at 12:57 pm
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Posted by Rich P. (6 messages posted)

Thanks for the suggestion. It turns out, after spending about 3 days troubleshooting with a tech from Microsoft, that there was an, at that time, undiscovered flaw with some chipsets and the 7200 RPM 2 & 8-meg cache hard drives with service pack 1. Two of the major updates with SP1 are USB2 support and EIDE enhancements. I swapped the hard drive out with a different brand/size and my problems went away. What's even more amazing is that everyone I've talked to who has had serious slowdowns with service pack 1 who then swap the hard drive out no longer have a problem.

On Saturday, January 24, 2004 at 10:16 pm, Ben Kozuki wrote:
>I had similar problems and found that if your computer has an extra ethernet port
>that's not being used, it will slow down the boot. Go to your system devices page
>and disable any network adapters that you aren't using. better yet, just yank em
>if you can. eg. integrated net adapters,
>
>

Written in response to:: re: Question about 'Things that slow down system bootup' (anon: Saturday, January 24, 2004 at 10:16 pm)

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Question about 'Things that slow down system bootup' (Rich P.: Fri, Jan 10, 2003, 4:49 am)

re: Question about 'Things that slow down system bootup' (triplate: Fri, Jan 10, 2003, 5:01 am)

re: Question about 'Things that slow down system bootup' (Steve B: Fri, Jan 10, 2003, 6:25 am)

re: Question about 'Things that slow down system bootup' (Bob B: Fri, Jan 10, 2003, 7:07 am)

re: Question about 'Things that slow down system bootup' (legless1: Fri, Jan 10, 2003, 4:33 pm)

re: Question about 'Things that slow down system bootup' (Darrell: Fri, Jan 10, 2003, 10:47 pm)

re: Question about 'Things that slow down system bootup' (Rich P.: Sat, Jan 11, 2003, 3:00 pm)

re: Question about 'Things that slow down system bootup' (Rich P.: Sat, Jan 11, 2003, 3:08 pm)

re: Question about 'Things that slow down system bootup' (Don Morgan: Wed, Jan 29, 2003, 1:32 pm)

re: Question about 'Things that slow down system bootup' (Apps: Fri, Jun 6, 2003, 4:09 am)

re: Question about 'Things that slow down system bootup' (Rich P.: Fri, Feb 21, 2003, 6:15 pm)

re: Question about 'Things that slow down system bootup' (derek: Sun, Jul 6, 2003, 2:47 pm)

re: Question about 'Things that slow down system bootup' (anon: Sat, Jan 24, 2004, 10:16 pm)

re: Question about 'Things that slow down system bootup' (Rich P.: Mon, Jan 26, 2004, 12:57 pm)

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re: Question about 'Things that slow down system bootup' (Ray: Thu, Dec 29, 2005, 4:34 am)

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