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re: Question about 'Things that slow down system bootup'
Tuesday, June 28, 2005 at 6:29 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by DookiB
(1 messages posted)
Can't offer any advice here but I, too have experienced the same slow down issue
when installing SP1 on two seperate computers. I first installed it on a Dell desktop
with a P4 1.5 (not sure the HD). It was great before that but became such a slug
it was just about inoperable. I even tried reformatting the HD but to no success.
Pulled the HD and installed two 80GB Maxtors. I just have XP Pro, no SP's on it
now and it runs great again. The other is a Compaq Presario 900 laptop. Just installed
SP1 and experiencing identical problem. It's running an AMD 1.5. I'm praying I
don't need to install a new HD on this one as well now. If anyone has an answer
to this syptom, it looks like a lot of us would benefit.
On Friday, January 10, 2003 at 4:49 am, Rich P. 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:
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>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
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>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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