Asus A7N266-VM Slow WinXP Boot Problem...

[Lantano]

Just replaced an Abit KR7A (POS) with the Asus A7N266-VM on a XP 1600+ and 256mb PC2100 generic. I do have all the latest drivers from Asus and Nvidia installed. Running WinXP Pro SP1 with all current updates applied on an older WD 18.0 GB 7200 rpm HD with WinXP Standard IDE drivers (haven't seen any Nvidia IDE drivers for this mobo) and bootup takes forever!

The computer just waits at the XP Start Screen, no disk activity, for at least 60~90 seconds then finally the disk will kick in and it will complete. The actual disk access time is very short at bootup; anyone else encounter this "wait" period at boot? Otherwise this is a pretty nice basic computer (rebuilt for my Mom) gaming sucks at 1,847 3d Marks with the intergrated video but that's not what this PC will be used for anyway...

I've looked all over these Forums, HARDForums and AMDMB.com Forums as well as "Googled It" and no one else has reported this slow WINXP startup problem on an ASUS A7N266-VM. I am connected into a home network sharing RR cable through a router; could that be contributing to the stall at boot? Doesn't affect any other computers, P3 Laptop(Win 2000) and 2 - P4 Desktops(WinXP) hooked to the same router....

 

[mechBgon]

Try disabling the onboard LAN in the BIOS to see whether it affects the boot time, as a troubleshooting step.

 

[Lantano]

Thanks for the reply will try later tonite...

 

[lukmeg]

Hey Lantano did you ever figure out what was causing your slow bootup? My setup is almost identical to yours:

2000+ XP
ASUS A7N266-VM
256MB Crucial 2100
WD800JB (1 NTFS partition)
WinXP Pro SP1
Latest drivers from Nvidia and BIOS 1005
sharing RR through router

and I'm having a similar problem. When I power up, after the initial boot up screen, my screen goes black for about 30 seconds. Then the "XP start screen" comes up and the rest is pretty fast. i've tried disabling, the LAN, USB ports, etc. and still the same.

If anyone has any idea what could be causing this, your help would be appreciated.

Thanks.

 

[klein297]

Might find the problem with bootvis.

 

[mechBgon]

Originally posted by: lukmeg
Hey Lantano did you ever figure out what was causing your slow bootup? My setup is almost identical to yours:

2000+ XP
ASUS A7N266-VM
256MB Crucial 2100
WD800JB (1 NTFS partition)
WinXP Pro SP1
Latest drivers from Nvidia and BIOS 1005
sharing RR through router

and I'm having a similar problem. When I power up, after the initial boot up screen, my screen goes black for about 30 seconds. Then the "XP start screen" comes up and the rest is pretty fast. i've tried disabling, the LAN, USB ports, etc. and still the same.

If anyone has any idea what could be causing this, your help would be appreciated.

Thanks.

If your WD drive is solo on its own cable, do make sure it is jumpered as shown on the label for Single Drive. Hope that helps

 

[Lantano]

Originally posted by: lukmeg
Hey Lantano did you ever figure out what was causing your slow bootup? My setup is almost identical to yours:
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My problem was with the integrated LAN on the motherboard. I sold this setup to a co-worker and they use a modem and I disabled the LAN for them( I have RoadRunner Cable) and the boot up problem disappeared. If you've already tried disabling the LAN in BIOS then I'm not sure what your answer would be... like the other guy suggested try BOOTVIS at the MS web site.

 

[KF]

It seems to me that mobos with integrated video do take a bit longer to get into Windows. I never timed it. 30 seconds does not seem all that long for the black screen part of booting XP.

 

[lukmeg]

Thanks for the suggestions. Checked my jumpers, did the bootvis, disabled the onboard NIC and installed another. I'm still gettting that 30 sec delay though. I know it's not long but, faster would be nice. When I get another drive, I'll swap this one out and see if there's any difference. Thanks again for all the help.