very slow boot to post
Sunday, April 18, 2004 at 6:27 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by robert.o
(29 messages posted)
I have win xp home with 256 worth of memory.
my problem is that for some reason it boots very slow to post, what happens is when
i turn on the pc it seems to sit there for a few minutes, then i can hear the network
card make clicking sounds for about another 30 seconds or so then the hard drive
kicks in and things boot fine. no problems with windows or booting after that.
It only seems to happen when i boot after the pc is down for a while.
the thing is is that I have win xp home on two machines,both networked, and both
have visiontek xtasy 9200 cards in them,same config on both machines, but the first
takes forever to boot to post and the second boots with no trouble at all.
I have ran both spybot (updated ) and adaware (updated) which cleaned out things,
cleaned things up with the disk utility tools so forth and so on.
anybody have any ideas as to what can be causing this?
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1st built, amd 1.2 mgz thunderbird, with win xp home, 40 gig hdd, 248 megs ram
2nd built,amd 1800+ xp, with win win xp home, 20 gig hdd. 576 megs ram
both networked together to a router smc 7004br connected to cable modem sb 4200 surfboard
with comcast as provider
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