Very slow boot...

[Si1v3r]

Heres the problem.. About maybe a week ago.. I noticed my computers startup was alot slower. I noticed it at the startup screen with the windows XP logo with the bars goign across at the bottom... It does about 7-9 passes.... It usualy would do 3/4 of a pass... So after awhile.. I finaly said "Screw it" with all my attmepts to speed it up.. And formatted and did a fresh install of Windows XP pro SP2(slipstreamed)..And I still have the same problem.. it seems like the whole system is idle, the HDD isn't working, or anythign untill the like 6th pass of the bars...

Any help?

Asus A8V Deluxe Motherboard
eVGA nVidia e-Ge-Force 6800 128MB DDR AGP 8x
AMD Athlon 64 FX-57 @ 2.8GHz
Western Digital WD Raptor 74GB @ 10,000RPM SATA
Creative labs Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS
Corsair TWINX2048-3200C2 2GB DDR400
OCZ Powerstream 520W

 

[BlueWeasel]

Have you made some changes to your networking configuration or changed out any networking components (ie, NIC, router, etc)?

 

[Si1v3r]

Yea I chnaged to use my router not long ago

 

[daniel49]

might try boot vis to see if you can ID where the hangup is.
http://www.majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=664

 

[Si1v3r]

downloading. What do I do with bootvis? I've never heard of it before.

 

[Si1v3r]

ok I ran it at on the disk I/O it says "Warning! Disk write caching is disabled!"

 

[BlueWeasel]

Originally posted by: Si1v3r
downloading. What do I do with bootvis? I've never heard of it before.

Improving XP boot time with Bootvis

 

[Si1v3r]

What do I do about the disk caching?

 

[Si1v3r]

ok I enabled disk caching but still slow and like IT's goign idle

 

[bob4432]

after it boots, how does the machine run?

 

[Si1v3r]

Extremely well. Just as well as usualy

 

[bob4432]

Originally posted by: Si1v3r
Extremely well. Just as well as usualy

i know this is not the answer you are looking for, but if it all works fine when on, and their are no issues, event logs look good, i wouldn't worry about it. boot up times don't have any meaning with computer speed.

want to talk about slow boot up, if you ever go scsi it takes forever compared to normal ata drives...

or you could just leave the machine on.