Hi I have formatted my c drive and reinstalled all drivers, all fine. Installed windows updates online. Then installed SP2 from a cd, installs fine. On reboot the system takes 7 mins + to start up. I see the inital bios details, etc first (as normal), then instead of going to the windows emblem and blue progress bar, the screen goes black and after a minute or so, a white progress bar appears at the bottom and sits there for about 6mins, gets half way along and then continues normally to desktop. Everything seems to work ok except a seriously lengthy start up. I have formatted again and again and reinstalled everything is fine until I install SP2, same thing every time. Please help Thanks

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If you are installing with an MS original CD without SP incorporated into it, it 
is best to slipstream SP2 into the original install files and make a new install 
CD that has SP2 in it already, then use Windows update to bring the system up to 
date and add your drivers .  Far less problems doing it that way than adding the 
SP after the fact in my experience.

If you have access to a working machine with a CD burner and burning software you 
can easily do it with Autostreamer.  How to here and files:

http://www.simplyguides.net/guides/using_autostreamer/using_autostreamer.shtml







On Friday, August 31, 2007 at 10:34 am, bobamatt wrote:

>Hi

>I have formatted my c drive and reinstalled all drivers, all fine. Installed windows 

>updates online. Then installed SP2 from a cd, installs fine. On reboot the system 

>takes 7 mins + to start up. I see the inital bios details, etc first (as normal), 

>then instead of going to the windows emblem and blue progress bar, the screen goes 

>black and after a minute or so, a white progress bar appears at the bottom and sits 

>there for about 6mins, gets half way along and then continues normally to desktop. 

>Everything seems to work ok except a seriously lengthy start up. 

>I have formatted again and again and reinstalled everything is fine until I install 

>SP2, same thing every time.

>Please help

>Thanks  

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That start-up does sound like hardware having a hard time initializing. SP2 is somehow 
corrupting one (or more) drivers.

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