calabris

I am running XP home edition on my P4 system. I reformatted my drive and installed XP fresh. When I boot, the splash screen is on for about 2 min, the bar is moving the entire time. Then a blank screen for about 10 sec. Then the XP is starting screen lasts about 1 min, then the dessktop comes up and that takes about 1.5 min before I can do anything. I have seen XP system take as little as 3- sec or less to boot. The hard drive is being accessed the entire time it is booting. It has never reported an error, any ideas why this is so SLOW? My system: P4 1.8 Ghz Intel 850GB 512K RAMDAC Radeon 8500 128m DDR Sound blaster LIVE! 52X creative CD-ROM Iomega 12x10x32 Burner. Thanks

I have a P4 1.7 system with 256K RAMDAC. I have a 100mb network card but for some reason the network connection is VERY slow. The 100 light is lit on the card and on the network switch but it is transferring slower than 10mb. I did notice that the network card is sharing IRQ11 along with the Radeon 7000 AGP video card. Could this be causing the slow performance??

Just an update, I changed hard drives and reformatted it with XP and now everything runs great. I dont know why with the old drive it was a slug. I did not have to many TSR's running. Maybe the drive was staring to die. It was a WD Caviar drive so maybe that was it. Thanks for all the help

I have had the cage in for a while. It was running fine one day and very slow the next. I did not install and new drivers or hardware. But around the same time, my screensaver stopped working. They will show in preview fine, but I can never get it to pop up automaticly after so many min. I have to swich back to 98 beacuce their are some programs my wife has that will not run on XP.

The boot drive is a western digital 30 gig, the second drive is a 20 gig IBM drive.

I have loaded the latest drivers for everyting. I am running 1 CD-rom and one burner on the secondary ide channel and two hard drives on the primary. Both drives are 7200 RPM with udma/100. I have checked in device manager and both drives are running on UDMA. I am also running the boot drive in a removable cage so I can switch between XP and 98. When I boot in 98 it boots in about a normal amout of time for 98. XP takes two to three times longer to boot

Anyone have any idea why the screensaver is XP would just stop working. One day it would come up as normal after 10 min, then it just stopped working. I have changed to different screensavers but none of them will ever come up! XP will just stay in the last screen I have opened but never start the screensaver or turn off the monitor. The only thing that I installed was a Saitek Joystick driver. I do not know if the screensaver thing happend right after that or not but I dont see how the joystick driver could keep the screensaver from coming up. Just another weird XP problem!