WinXP pauses on startup

  • Thread starter Thread starter TomCat39
  • Start date Start date
T

TomCat39

Hi there,
my Win XP installation pauses for about 70-80 sec during startup
during which you can´t start any program, then it loads the remaining
programs into the taskbar and everything is as usual.
My question: how can I find out which program, task or service is
responsible for that delay?? Is there a program telling me that or
making a kind of boot list where I can see at which time which program
was loaded??
Please help
Thanks in advance
Tom
 
Start-->Run, type MSCONFIG and press enter. Start up tab would be a good
place to start.

CTRL+SHIFT+ESC will launch task manager, click on the processes tab and sort
by CPU from there you can watch sevices start.
 
Bob Horton said:
Google "bootvis.exe" and give it a try.

Bob Horton
Click to expand...
Sounds like a network card looking for a network. - But bootvis will show
you what takes how long.
 
Hi Tom,
TomCat39 said:
Hi there,
my Win XP installation pauses for about 70-80 sec during startup
during which you can´t start any program, then it loads the remaining
programs into the taskbar and everything is as usual.
My question: how can I find out which program, task or service is
responsible for that delay?? Is there a program telling me that or
making a kind of boot list where I can see at which time which program
was loaded??
Please help
Thanks in advance
Tom
Click to expand...
Just a long shot , but try it........
I had the same problem twice and after formatting and reinstalling xp still
the same.
What I did find was that if I turned the pc off at the wall and then power
up again it was good as new.
I put this problem down to something that happened whilst trying to copy
files from the pc to a CF card.

Regards,
Max...
 
Hi there,
my Win XP installation pauses for about 70-80 sec during startup
during which you can´t start any program, then it loads the remaining
programs into the taskbar and everything is as usual.
My question: how can I find out which program, task or service is
responsible for that delay?? Is there a program telling me that or
making a kind of boot list where I can see at which time which program
was loaded??
Please help
Thanks in advance
Tom
Click to expand...
_______________

Hi!
Go to http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/utilities.shtml
You'll find plenty of very good free utilities to monitor your PC
activity.
Also get Startup Control Panel from http://www.mlin.net/StartupCPL.shtml
 
Hi there,
its me again.
Now I´ve made a fresh Installion of "WinXP home" on my Dell Dimension
8100 (P4 1400 MHz, Jan 2001) and the delay problem was there again
right from the start. I ran BootVis and got the following results:
Process creates:
start: 0 sec
12 sec: (I assume win desktop start)
explorer.exe
spoolsv.exe
cffmon.exe
bootvis_sleep.exe
18 sec: (maybe the time when the delay starts)
devldr32.exe
devldr32.exe
63 sec:
bootvis.exe (end of delay time, during which pc is not responding)

looking in the taskmanager during the delay time:
processes : empty running process with 99%
user: unknown until end of delay time

all network components except TCP/IP Internet disabled

is it a problem with the devldr32.exe file? in a former try I´ve
installed the new drivers for my soundblaster live! from creative.com,
but that didn´t solve the problem...

Please help!
Thanks in advance
Tom.

P.s. the below mentioned total seperation of the pc from the main
power plug did not help...
 
TomCat39 said:
Hi there,
its me again.
Click to expand...

You may not be aware of this, but at 1:25 AM GMT +1000, there were
6,383,637,533 me's alive on the planet. Which of the other 6,383,637,532
me's are you?
 
IIRC, the driver that's causing your problem is the driver for your Sound
Blaster card (do you, in fact, have a Sound Blaster card?). If so, go to
the Creative Labs website and download and install per their directions
their latest drivers.

HTH

Bob Horton

--

Roy Jones said:
Are you using an ethernet card for DSL?
Click to expand...
 
another thing I´ve noticed:

in the hardware manager there is a "not supported hardware" entry at
the top (yellow question mark) with the entry: Microsoft
ACPI-compatible system.

Maybe the BIOS of the Dell Dimension 8100 from Jan 2000 is to old for
Win XP ?? Could this thing cause such a delay? On dell.com there is no
BIOS update which is suited for WIN XP ??

The security part of the win xp updated did not solve the problem, but
I did not install the other part of updates - might there be an fix
for that delay problem in there?

Thanks, Tom.

P.S. I´ve removed the soundcard (to overcome a poccible devldr32.exe
problem), but that was not the solution...
 
Hi there,

I´ve finally found the problem...
I have a network controller on my mother board which is connected to
the DSL modem, but I don´t have a local network here. The computer
seems to have looked for 70 sec for an IP number...
The solution is:

go to system - network - LAN connection - right click to get
properties
switch IP detection from automatic to manual and fill in:
192.168.0.1
255.255.255.0
(you also find this in the MS knowledge base no.814538(german))

Now the win xp startup time is 70 sec shorter....

Hope this helps other guys with this problem !

keywords: windows xp, win xp, winxp, startup time, boot time, delay,
pause, wait, IP number search, network

Thanks to all
Tom

P.S. in this case the BootVis tool seems not very helpful, its only
looking for executed prg, services, etc.

----

Bob Horton said:
IIRC, the driver that's causing your problem is the driver for your Sound
Blaster card (do you, in fact, have a Sound Blaster card?). If so, go to
the Creative Labs website and download and install per their directions
their latest drivers.

HTH

Bob Horton

--
Click to expand...
 
Thats' why I asked if you are using an ethernet card for DSL. Make a note of
the fix - it comes up often.
 
Back
Top