Question about 'Things that slow down system bootup'
Friday, January 10, 2003 at 4:49 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Rich P.
(6 messages posted)
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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