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HORRIBLE WinXP Pro boot time

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My boot time for Win XP Pro - Corporate is about 3:45 (yes, three minutes). I loaded it on two systems that are almost identical and the boot time is the same on both.

What in the world would cause such a long boot?
 
Try turning off services you dont use or need.
Make sure IDE in device manager in using DMA.

Those 2 will speed up things if you haven't checked them yet.
 
I'm not sure turning off services does much to affect boot time, unless something is causing it to hang. Is the boot slow throughout or just in certain parts does it seem to take extra time?

What is identical about the two systems you tested, it could be a certain hardware device. Even with a slow hard drive (or one not using DMA) it shouldn't take 4 minutes.
 
I just restarted and I noticed that during boot up, I get this message:

Ultra DMA Mode-5 S.M.A.R.T. -- capable but disabled

Could this be a problem?
 
Try the tips from my performance page on my website. I would give the exact link, but I'm in the process of redoing the whole thing. It involves dynamic IP address in particular, if you use DSL that requires a username and password. Also, make sure you have the right drivers for your motherboard, graphics card, sound card, etc. What's your system like???
 
Here's the system:

ECS K7S5A
Duron 800
Crucial PC2100 256MB
WD 30GB
Radeon VE
Santa Cruz
Plextor 40X
Lite-on 24X
Pioneer 106S (slot)

Yes, I do have DSL that used to require special software (before XP) and a username & password. Since I installed XP, I'm not using my DSL software (ppoe) and it never ask me for a username or password, but it always connects without a problem. How?
 
Is it slow booting during the black screen or is it slow when windows start booting? Make sure the jumper on the hdd is set right. This happened when I set my jumper to master with slave when it should have been master alone.
 
Enter your BIOS before loading up. Optimize your settings. Clearly you have not done so. It is possible that you have some critical cache settings disabled, and obviously you have the S.M.A.R.T feature disabled which you should probably enable.

So, enter the BIOS and enable that, and optimize all your settings. 3 minutes is absolutely ridiculous. You should boot in 8-20 seconds.

-RSI
 
Yeah, I can bootup in about 25 seconds, I would try that Bootvis out. My system @ school has an ECS, so maybe flash the bios to a later version. I am kinda used to long bootups cause I have RAID and that takes forever to bootup. 🙁
 
Sounds like your network card is looking for something that isnt there.
Would it be possible to pull the network card to see if that helped?

 
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