Slow startup

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Hi,

I got myself a new pc and everything works fine except for the time it needs
to startup.
The windows xp logo with that animated progress bar stays there for 1 minute
before the welcome screen appears.
Right after installing xp from scratch - new harddisk - it was already that
slow.
Apart from that, the system works fine without any problem.

System:
Mainboard: MSI KT6 Delta
Cpu: AMD Athlon 2600/333
Memory: Apacer DDR 512 PC3200
Vga: Aopen FX5200 128Mb
HD: 80Gb Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9 - 8Mb

Windows XP + sp1

Any ideas are very welcome.
Thanks in advance!
 
Hi,

I got myself a new pc and everything works fine except for the time it needs
to startup.
The windows xp logo with that animated progress bar stays there for 1 minute
before the welcome screen appears.
Right after installing xp from scratch - new harddisk - it was already that
slow.
Apart from that, the system works fine without any problem.

System:
Mainboard: MSI KT6 Delta
Cpu: AMD Athlon 2600/333
Memory: Apacer DDR 512 PC3200
Vga: Aopen FX5200 128Mb
HD: 80Gb Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9 - 8Mb

Windows XP + sp1

Any ideas are very welcome.
Thanks in advance!
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Does it have an integrated network adapter?
Is that (or a different) network adapter set to a fixed IP address or
is it waiting for a DHCP server to issue it an IP address? That's my
first guess, that you need to set a fixed IP number... whatever you
want. We need a bit more detail of your LAN (or lack of) if this is
the problem. It is a given that without the DHCP server or a fixed IP
address, the machine will just sit, waiting, for a period.


Dave
 
kony said:
Does it have an integrated network adapter?
Is that (or a different) network adapter set to a fixed IP address or
is it waiting for a DHCP server to issue it an IP address? That's my
first guess, that you need to set a fixed IP number... whatever you
want. We need a bit more detail of your LAN (or lack of) if this is
the problem. It is a given that without the DHCP server or a fixed IP
address, the machine will just sit, waiting, for a period.


Dave
Click to expand...
You could also try this tool called bootvis,
http://www.mvps.org/sramesh2k/utils/BootVis.exe ,but I'm guessing Dave
has a good enough answer, and here is how to do it.

Try assigning your network card a static IP address.
- Right click Network Neighborhood and click Properties or go into Control
Panel and open Network
- Double click the TCP/IP --> Ethernet network card line to open its TCP/IP
properties
- Click the IP Address tab
- Click on Specify an IP Address and enter 192.168.0.1 and 255.255.255.0
for the IP Address and Subnet Mask, respectively
- OK your way out and reboot
- If you have a problem you can reverse the process by going back into
TCP/IP Properties and selecting Obtain an IP Address Automatically.

Hope this helps
 
Hi kony,

The netwerk configuration was also the first thing I thougt about so I did
already set it to a manual ip address without any improvement.
I had used a normal 40 pins ide cable to connect the cd-rom to the 2nd ide
channel and that was the problem.
Although it's ok now, I'm puzzled why you have to use a 80 pins cable on the
2nd channel - and if this was just a 'single case' for this
mainboard/cd-rom - for 'just' a cd-rom

Anyway, thanks a lot for your suggestion
..
 
Hi kony,

The netwerk configuration was also the first thing I thougt about so I did
already set it to a manual ip address without any improvement.
I had used a normal 40 pins ide cable to connect the cd-rom to the 2nd ide
channel and that was the problem.
Although it's ok now, I'm puzzled why you have to use a 80 pins cable on the
2nd channel - and if this was just a 'single case' for this
mainboard/cd-rom - for 'just' a cd-rom

Anyway, thanks a lot for your suggestion
.
Click to expand...

Perhaps you have one of the IDE devices jumpered wrong. You should
not need use an 80-pin conductor on an IDE device, at least not to
avoid a delay even if it is ATA66 or higher, in which case it should
drop to ATA33 mode, but most optical drives still are ATA33.


Dave
 
Dave, it was not an issue of jumpers. The cd-rom was on the 2nd ide channel
and the jumper was set to master - it was the only device on that channel.
I do not understand it either why there is a difference in using a 40 or
80-conductor cable in this case but hey, I don't wanna know right now since
I have been trying to ghost the data from the old harddisk to a new, which
didn't work, and I spent all day and night to figure it out.
Finally I installed from scratch anyway to end this story.
Although I don't like unanswered questions this one will be one for now.
;-)

Thanks again!
 
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