re: very slow boot to post
Sunday, April 18, 2004 at 8:21 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Quick69GTO
(29 messages posted)
Hate to be a pessimist but could it be the hard drive that’s doing all the clicking.
Pull the cover off a take a listen.
I certainly hope it’s the network card and not the hard drive click of death.
Good luck!
On Sunday, April 18, 2004 at 6:27 am, robert.o wrote:
>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?
>
>
>
>__________________
>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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