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Both myself and my father are having a strange problem with windows
2000 starting up.
when the OS gets to the second loading screen, (i.e the one with the
win2000 logo) the progress bar gets halfway across in a couple of
seconds and then the computer seems to freeze for about 2 minutes.
there is no disk activity at all during this time. The internal zip
drives will then click as though they are accessing the disk in them
and it will carry on as before and load windows in a matter of
seconds.
The two machines are about as seperate in terms of configuration as
they come, mine is athlon based his is pentium based, the only
similarity is the graphics card which is a matrox dual head 550 and
both have internal zip drives.
this started occuring after installing service packs, (as to which one
does it i do not know, this happened long before sp4 was around).
Does anyone have any idea as to what this delay could be? i have been
through my startup config and disabled unneccesary services etc, made
no difference.
as the zip drive and graphics card are the only common link i have to
assume that these are the most likely cause of the problem. however i
am sure i had this problem when there was an older voodo 3 in my
machine beforehand.
any ideas? your help is much appreciated.
p.s. another slight annoyance on my dads machine is that if you have a
particular zip disk in the drive on startup, then if you try to change
disks it refuses to see the next one, simply stating there is no disk
in the drive. you have to log off and back on again to read a new zip
disk. on mine however there is no problem. is there just some silly
setting that is wrong on his.
2000 starting up.
when the OS gets to the second loading screen, (i.e the one with the
win2000 logo) the progress bar gets halfway across in a couple of
seconds and then the computer seems to freeze for about 2 minutes.
there is no disk activity at all during this time. The internal zip
drives will then click as though they are accessing the disk in them
and it will carry on as before and load windows in a matter of
seconds.
The two machines are about as seperate in terms of configuration as
they come, mine is athlon based his is pentium based, the only
similarity is the graphics card which is a matrox dual head 550 and
both have internal zip drives.
this started occuring after installing service packs, (as to which one
does it i do not know, this happened long before sp4 was around).
Does anyone have any idea as to what this delay could be? i have been
through my startup config and disabled unneccesary services etc, made
no difference.
as the zip drive and graphics card are the only common link i have to
assume that these are the most likely cause of the problem. however i
am sure i had this problem when there was an older voodo 3 in my
machine beforehand.
any ideas? your help is much appreciated.
p.s. another slight annoyance on my dads machine is that if you have a
particular zip disk in the drive on startup, then if you try to change
disks it refuses to see the next one, simply stating there is no disk
in the drive. you have to log off and back on again to read a new zip
disk. on mine however there is no problem. is there just some silly
setting that is wrong on his.