5+ minutes boot time

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Sir Benjamin Nunn

I've been running Vista Ultimate since December without too many major
problems.

In the last couple of weeks, I've noticed that on one of my machines the OS
now takes about 5 minutes to boot (was previously 15-20 seconds).

There's 5 minutes of black screen after the boot options and before the
Copyright screen with the green bars appears, and from then on it's as
normal.

When I try booting in Safe Mode, the last driver to load successfully at
normal speed is ataport.sys and then comes the 5 minute wait, then it
continues.

I religiously keep up to date with Windows Update, and I'm fairly sure this
only started after installing a recent update, possibly my SATA controller.

Any ideas? This is very inconvenient. TIA.

BTN
 
Would this machine happen to be either an IBM or a Lenovo? If so, there are
known Vista boot issues (and 2 hotfixes) for these.

Stuart.
 
Stuart said:
Would this machine happen to be either an IBM or a Lenovo? If so, there
are
known Vista boot issues (and 2 hotfixes) for these.
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It's neither. I built the machine in question myself. Asus P5GD2, P4 550, WD
HDD, Crucial RAM, ATI x1650, Audigy 2ex.

Be willing to try the hotfixes though, as I guess it's possible I'm using a
component somewhere that also features in the machines you mentioned.

BTN
 
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