Slow startup - i mean slow!

[Marktait 0]

ok! Xp is so slow at start-up, the harddrive clicks for about 10minutes once its entered XP and i cant do anything while its doing this. iv turned all start-up programs off and its no different.I have XP on a 4.5gb C:\ drive on NTFS, iv installed all windows updates files and still no difference, i wud expect this on a 400mhz maybe but not on a 1.2Ghz. Any ideas guyz?

 

Thanx very much,

 

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1.2AMD Athlon Thunderbird

Gigabyte 71XE4 M/Board

512MB PC133 Hyundai RAM

NVIDIA 64MB GeForce 2MX200 AGP

Seagate 40GB 5,400Rpm HDD

Lite-On 16/10/40 BurnProof ReWriter

40x Compaq CDRom Drive

36x Creative CDRom Drive

Hauppage PrimioFM WinTV/Radio Card

Creative SoundBlaster 128PCI

NetGear 10/100Mbps Fast Ethernet Adapter - Cable connection

Blackwidow 648 USB Scanner

Epson 580 USB Printer

 

WindowsXP Professional Corporate Platinum Edition

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[giovanni604 0]

damn i hope it really doesnt take 10 minutes heres

did you go into the msconfig and turn off all unnecessary programs ??

heres another thing that also works great

go to microsofts website and search fast boot

its a program they developed for nt and works great with XP

and dowload bootvis.

it will restart your comp. analyze its boot-up and reconfigure the boot sequence it knock bout 14-15 off my boot time

but if its really taking 10 min i'd format and reinstall

[Marktait 0]

Yeh! i turned it all off in msconfig-startup. Im gonna reinstall tonight so thanx.

 

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1.2AMD Athlon Thunderbird

Gigabyte 71XE4 M/Board

512MB PC133 Hyundai RAM

NVIDIA 64MB GeForce 2MX200 AGP

Seagate 40GB 5,400Rpm HDD

Lite-On 16/10/40 BurnProof ReWriter

40x Compaq CDRom Drive

36x Creative CDRom Drive

Hauppage PrimioFM WinTV/Radio Card

Creative SoundBlaster 128PCI

NetGear 10/100Mbps Fast Ethernet Adapter - Cable Connection

Blackwidow 648 USB Scanner

Epson 580 USB Printer

 

WindowsXP Professional Corporate Platinum Edition

WindowsXP Plus Pack!

OfficeXP Professional with FrontPage

Publisher XP

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[clutch 1]

Are you sure the harddrive isn't dying? Have you had any other odd issues (crashes, files not found, corrupted files, etc) popping up?

[Marktait 0]

Hard drives fine no other problems and its only 1month old so i hope not. Thanx

 

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1.2AMD Athlon Thunderbird

Gigabyte 71XE4 M/Board

512MB PC133 Hyundai RAM

NVIDIA 64MB GeForce 2MX200 AGP

Seagate 40GB 5,400Rpm HDD

Lite-On 16/10/40 BurnProof ReWriter

40x Compaq CDRom Drive

36x Creative CDRom Drive

Hauppage PrimioFM WinTV/Radio Card

Creative SoundBlaster 128PCI

NetGear 10/100Mbps Fast Ethernet Adapter

Blackwidow 648 USB Scanner

Epson 580 USB Printer

 

WindowsXP Professional Corporate Platinum Edition

WindowsXP Plus Pack!

OfficeXP Professional with FrontPage

Publisher XP

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[giovanni604 0]

wow you were serious bout the 10 min thing

return the hard drive and get a new one

[xaman 0]

My XP only take about 30 seconds to boot up into windows

[ThC 129 0]

yeah i would say get HDTach and measure the speed of the drive.

[Marktait 0]

i did a fresh install and its running great now, takes 25secs to get into windows,

 

thanx

 

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1.2AMD Athlon Thunderbird

Gigabyte 71XE4 M/Board

512MB PC133 Hyundai RAM

NVIDIA 64MB GeForce 2MX200 AGP

Seagate 40GB 5400Rpm ATA/100 HDD

Lite-On 16/10/40 BurnProof ReWriter

40x Compaq CDRom Drive

36x Creative CDRom Drive

Hauppage PrimioFM WinTV/Radio Card

Creative SoundBlaster 128PCI

NetGear 10/100Mbps Fast Ethernet Adapter - cable connection

Blackwidow 648 USB Scanner

Epson 580 USB Printer

 

WindowsXP Professional Corporate Platinum Edition

WindowsXP Plus Pack!

OfficeXP Professional with FrontPage

Publisher XP

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