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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If you insist on running SP1, then at least try the 30 series drivers for your card....the 40,s are known too cause headaches...You should check out ...www.blkviper.com...for the tweaks to your services that slow things down.....nice unit.


On Friday, January 10, 2003 at 4:49 am, Rich 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:

>
>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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My USB logitech mouse sometimes causes my HP machine running Windows 2000 to boot up 10 times too slow. When I see it happening, I merely unplug the mouse and the computer boots up at normal speed. I then plug the mouse back in and everything works fine. In my case it appears to be a BIOS problem, because it takes the BIOS 10 times too long to start booting the OS, and then it takes the OS 10 times too long to get running. Maybe other USB devices could do this also.


On Friday, January 10, 2003 at 4:49 am, Rich 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:

>
>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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I must be one of the lucky ones that doesn't have any troubles with SP1. Of course, I made sure all my stuff was XP compatible and installed XP drivers for all the hardware. I also don't "upgrade" drivers that are working well until I need any added utility from newer drivers. That way I avoid "buggy" first-release "upgrades". Adding SP1 had no perceptible effect on my boot/shutdown - look for other compatibility issues.


On Friday, January 10, 2003 at 4:49 am, Rich 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:

>
>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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i too have SP1 installed..no probs you're running an uncertified driver the only WHQL certified is 40.72... you can also check your protected system files by going to...start/run/then type.....SFC /scannow.......windows will then check and replace any damaged system files WITHOUT changing anything else.... good luck

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I dont know if this will help but worth a look. Darrell http://www.microsoft.com/hwdev/platform/performance/fastboot/BootVisdwn.asp?


On Friday, January 10, 2003 at 4:49 am, Rich 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:

>
>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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Thanks for the try, however, if you read my post again, I mentioned that I am already using BootVis to no avail.


On Friday, January 10, 2003 at 10:47 pm, Darrell Lewis wrote:
>I dont know if this will help but worth a look. Darrell
>
>http://www.microsoft.com/hwdev/platform/performance/fastboot/BootVisdwn.asp?
>
>

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[FollowUP] I found this webpage that has a "blurb" on SP1 causing unknown/mysterious slowdowns on some computers after installation. No fix has been found yet. Although from the users who have posted similar symptoms, I am beginning to believe it could be processor related to the AMD Athlon 1.3/1.4 gHz CPUs. If I find anything else, I'll post again.


On Friday, January 10, 2003 at 4:49 am, Rich 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:

>
>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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Hope this helps. I had a previous issue of a very long bootup and found it was caused by the serial port being activated and not used. I used it to test an old serial device and then went back to the USB. On boot computer was looking for serial device which wasnt there so it took almost 2-1/2 min to boot. I disabled serial port and everythings fine and quick.


On Saturday, January 11, 2003 at 3:08 pm, Rich wrote:
>[FollowUP] I found this webpage
>that has a "blurb" on SP1 causing unknown/mysterious slowdowns on some computers
>after installation. No fix has been found yet. Although from the users who have posted
>similar symptoms, I am beginning to believe it could be processor related to the
>AMD Athlon 1.3/1.4 gHz CPUs.
>
>If I find anything else, I'll post again.
>
>
>
>

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It's funny how time and patience cures all problems. I built another new system as an upgrade for me to play games on. I ended up re-using parts from other systems and one of those pieces was the hard drive that I threw into my wife's computer. The system I ended up building is as follows: Intel P4 2.53 gHz CPU 1024 MB PC1200 DDR Ram Nvidia Ti4400 128 meg DDR AGP 4x video card ASUS P4S8X motherboard that same 60 gig hard drive. I bought a new copy of Windows XP Pro from the store I bought my motherboard from and it happened to have SP1 integrated. After the first reboot my computer would take 10 - 15 minutes to boot. I thought to myself, this is stupid. Not being one to give up and working in the technical field, I decided to do some troubleshooting. I followed all of the online advice and pretty much turned off every option in the BIOS. No go. With nothing to lose I decided to give MS .net server 2003 RC2 a try, since I have a copy for evaluation. It's basically Windows XP in server form. Once my hard drive was formatted and .net server was at it's first reboot, the same frustrating thing happened. Slow boot, taking 10-15 minutes to boot. At this point, I decided to retry WinXP Pro and see if I could figure out the problem. So I decided to break down and call Microsoft and ask them for help. Being an installation problem, MS is obligated to give you two, free, service calls. Once I talked to the tier-one support, they gave me a support number and bumped me up to tier-two. Tier-two asked me all of the things I had tried and even asked me to try some other options, still no go. The tech guy mentioned that since my problem followed me even in safe-mode that it had to be a low-level driver and something associated with the motherboard. We thought it might be the USB drivers since I never once saw the USB drivers load in the /SOS setting (Show On Startup) or in my "ntbtlog.txt" boot-log. But it could also be the IDE drivers. At this point, being a Saturday, the tier-two tech told me he was elevating my problem to their special investigation team, who would call me back by Tuesday. In the meantime, On Monday, I saw an ad for a 120-gig 7200 RPM hard drive on sale for $99 at Comp-USA. With all of the games I play I decided to go ahead and give it a try. The drive is a Maxtor 7200RPM 120-gig drive with 2mb cache and even had the WinXP logo on it. Amazingly, the drive installed, formatted, and run's through reboots flawlessly. NO SLOWDOWN of any kind. Microsoft called me that evening and I told them about the "fix" I found and the tech said he was perplexed by all of the data I had submitted. He even said this was the first report MS had of this kind that was not using the Intel chipset. My ASUS mobo uses the SIS-648 chipset and my AMD system has the VIA chipset, so this indicates cross-platform corruption of some kind. In my opinion this points to a problem of some kind with the EIDE drivers that come with the SP1 fix. It's pretty sad that I had to buy a new hard drive to fix my problem, but I did get a higher-capacity, faster hard drive. The two 60-gig drives I tried to use are both UDMA5. The only possibility I can think of would be that there was some timing problem since UDMA5 is ATA/100 and my boards are all 266 mHz boards with PC2100 RAM or PC133 RAM, and since 100 is not an even multiple, I wonder if there isn't some kind of corruption in MS's SP1 drivers. The MS tech told me this was a remote possibility and suggested if I wanted to try again that I could install SP1 and then force the older EIDE drivers to be installed and see if that fixed the problem. Now that I have my system up and running, I'm not going to try again, but I might on my wife's computer. You might try it yourself. Good luck and I hope this helps! Rich.


On Friday, January 10, 2003 at 4:49 am, Rich 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:

>
>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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I am having the same "slow boot" problem after installing SP1 on my Dell Inspiron 4100 laptop.


On Wednesday, January 29, 2003 at 1:32 pm, Don Morgan wrote:
> Hope this helps. I had a previous issue of a very long bootup and found it was caused
>by the serial port being activated and not used. I used it to test an old serial
>device and then went back to the USB. On boot computer was looking for serial device
>which wasnt there so it took almost 2-1/2 min to boot. I disabled serial port and
>everythings fine and quick.
>
>

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dont put service pack one on pc thats what i have not done this time it was a drag booting up and shutting down


On Friday, January 10, 2003 at 4:49 am, Rich 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:

>
>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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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,


On Friday, January 10, 2003 at 4:49 am, Rich 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:

>
>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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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,
>
>

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I've installed SP1 and i really don't see a difference until after the splash screen, and then i sit a a black screen for a good 20-30 seconds before my mouse and then finally my login screen appears, email me if you can find a fix or a way to remove SP1 thx.

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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:

>
>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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Same poblem on a laptop and im in the middle of th desert. Hey Rick you mind letting us know what and how to do about the two things you mentioned?


On Tuesday, June 28, 2005 at 6:29 pm, DookiB wrote:
>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.
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Change the driver for the IDE controller to use the Standard driver instead of the vendor specific driver.


On Thursday, December 29, 2005 at 4:34 am, Ray wrote:
>Same poblem on a laptop and im in the middle of th desert. Hey Rick you mind letting
>us know what and how to do about the two things you mentioned?
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