Vulcan 0 Posted February 23, 2002 hey... Whenever the computer boots,after the bios screen shows up and my hard disks and my cd rom are detected (for 5 second or less), there is a long pause of 10 to 15 seconds and only then the hard disk is accessed and the OS starts to load. i don't know how to fix the situation. motherboard : IWill's VD133 (Via Appollo pro 133) Pentium III 450 Mhz 256 ram 3 Western Digital hard Disks 1 Cd-Rom 1 floppy Win ME/XP Dual Boot (I Don't Think The OS is relavant here..) Please Help ! Share this post Link to post
Alien 1 Posted February 23, 2002 Without knowing more I can't really narrow it down much, but a few things spring to mind: - Has XP always behaved this way on your machine? - How old is the installation of XP? - Have you replaced/hacked [for appearances sake] the boot screen, the login screen, or Explorer.exe? - Have you had any probs with installing/uninstalling progs - eg 1 that didn't install/uninstall smoothly? - as above, but for drivers - Have a look in Msconfig & see what you have running @ statup - maybe you'll find a clue to your prob in the list of things that are set to run @ startup. - Does it do a big pause when you boot into safe mode? If so then see what it says on the screen as the comment/command just before it pauses. These are just a few things to think about - I'm assuming you have the latest drivers for all your hardware, & updates/patches for windows & all your progs, yes? Share this post Link to post
Vulcan 0 Posted February 23, 2002 sorry for confusing you ..but i changed the thread title to make it clearer.. the pause is after the bios screen before the OS starts to load... Share this post Link to post
pimpin_228 0 Posted February 23, 2002 alien it's not hacking to change stuff, it called modifying to the way you want it Share this post Link to post
Alien 1 Posted February 23, 2002 I would have thought it depends on how you do it - if it's just stuff like themes, styles, or changing the OEM info with something like Xteq Xsetup then I would agreee with calling it modifying, but when you use something like ResHacker to actually replace a bitmap or a caption for the Start button in an exe or dll file & then recompile the file I would have thought that using the term hack wouldn't be too inappropriate. Share this post Link to post
Kurtz Hz 0 Posted February 23, 2002 I had a similar conundrum in which my i815 based system would pause for several seconds after the boot screen in windows 2000. I solved it by removing unused IDE channels in Control Panel | System | Device Manager, and setting each slave and master to its correct transfer mode (i.e. PIO4, UDMA4, etc...) Note that you may have to do this in Windows AND your BIOS. I guarantee a 4 second reduction in boot time good luck. Share this post Link to post
Marktait 0 Posted February 23, 2002 I'm getting a problem with my 1700+ that when windows is starting to load, it just stops doing anything. The harddrive light stays on and the slider for the Windows XP boot screen moves across but the HardDrive isn't being accesssed coz theres just silence. Then after about 3-6 seconds it starts loading again.This only happens 2 out of every 5 boots but gets annoying. ---------------------------------- 1st Computer ---------------------------------- AMD 1700+ Athlon XP ASUS A7V133A VIA Motherboard 512MB PC-133 RAM 64MB GeForce 3 Ti200 (Det 27.10) 60GB IBM 7200RPM HardDrive 16x/48x LG DVDDrive 40x Compag CDDrive 16x/10x/40x LiteON ReWriter Creative SoundBlaster Live! 1024 Player Creative 4.1 Surround Sound 1600 Speakers 10/100 Netgear Ethernet Adapter - 2nd Computer Networked WinTV Primio FM TV/Radio Tuner ---------------------------------- 2nd Computer ---------------------------------- 1.2Ghz AMD Athlon Thunderbird 512MB PC-133 RAM 64MB GeForce 2 MX200 (Det 27.10) 60GB IBM 7200RPM HardDrive 40GB Seagate 5400RPM HardDrive 16x/48x LG DVDDrive 24x/10x/40x Samsung ReWriter Creative SoundBlaster 128 10/100 Genius Ethernet Adapter - Cable Connection 10/100 Genius Ethernet Adapter - Laptop Networked 10/100 Genius Ethernet Adapter - 1st Computer Networked 300Watt RMS 2.1 Active Subwoofer Logic Speakers ---------------------------------- Windows XP Professional Corporate Platinum Edition(IE6 SP1 beta 2813) Windows XP Plus Pack Office XP Corporate Edition with Frontpage Publisher XP Corporate Edition Share this post Link to post
Vulcan 0 Posted February 24, 2002 i think i found the cause for the problem,but i don't have a solution.. apparently the hard disk that is connected with my cd-rom to the second ide cable is causing the problem.whenever i remove it ,the pause at the boot screen is gone... is there something i can do ? Share this post Link to post
Alien 1 Posted February 24, 2002 Have you checked the jumper settings on both drives [HDD & CD] to make sure the master & slave settings are correct? Also, do you leave your IDE device settings in BIOS set to auto-detect, or do you detect them & leave them set @ the right settings? I know some boards might not give you a choice on this matter, but if yours does it can make a difference. [what I mean is that auto-detect is slower] Share this post Link to post
