1 minute on desktop after boot???

[DanQ]

This is strange. I boot up, everything's ok, desktop shows, and it keeps accessing HD for a minute or so!! (using XP)
If I tried to run anything during that time, it would be really slow. It gets annoying when I have to wait 1 minute before I can do anything.
I suspect it's my lowly old quantum HD (it only get 12000 on sandra's file system benchmark). I tried defrag, scan, but it still happens.
Another thing is when I o/c my P1,6A to 2,128 ghz (133 fsb), the desktop seem slugish. I backed it to 125fsb (2ghz) and everything is fine. I think its my Apacer PC2100 256 DDR.
Dunno, maybe the 2 thing related?

Help!

 

[bsr]

just the old HD slowin it down,, Faster HD will speed up your whole system

 

[sciencewhiz]

it's becasue XP is delaying starting things in order to get you to the desktop faster to make it seem that it is booting faster. If that makes any sense, you are smarter then me.

 

[TimeKeeper]

when I o/c my P1,6A to 2,128 ghz (133 fsb), the desktop seem slugish. I backed it to 125fsb (2ghz) and everything is fine. I think its my Apacer PC2100 256 DDR.

Yes and NO. If your PS can't fed enough power into your CPU, it will be slugish.

I boot up, everything's ok, desktop shows, and it keeps accessing HD for a minute or so!! (using XP)
If I tried to run anything during that time, it would be really slow. It gets annoying when I have to wait 1 minute before I can do anything.
I suspect it's my lowly old quantum HD (it only get 12000 on sandra's file system benchmark).

Yes and no. If you are using NIC, most likely it is the one to blame.
1. turn off auto update function.
2. name your PC
3. turn off system restore. (but can be bit risky)
4. disable any unncessary start up program. OfficeXP, Realplayer auto update, Nero update..so on and so forth.

It also depending on NIC's driver. I found 3Com NIC will slow down start up time the most. (perhaps its management untility)
I found $6 Realtek's 8139 has least driver and therefore, I have absolutely NO slow down during boot up.