Logon screen hangs XP boot

[blkdragon]

I recently swapped mobo's and reinstalled windows. With my old mobo, it took 20s or so to boot to windows but now it takes over 2 minutes. I knew this couldn't be right so I ran Bootvis here are the times:

Disk: 1.24s
Drivers: 5.94s
Prefetching: 7.67s
Registry+pagefile: 5.63s
Video: .47s
Logon+Service: 110.74s

Everything looks right except for the Logon+Service. The, "windows is starting," blue screen just hangs there and according to Bootvis the cpu and HD activity are 0. Any help?

 

[BlueWeasel]

Are there any network connections at startup/logon?

 

[blkdragon]

I don't know. How can I check that?

 

[blkdragon]

Bump this to the top

 

[blkdragon]

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[corkyg]

That phase of loading is when your system is loading drivers. The sequence indicates that you have a driver that Windows is choking on. Have you tried booting in Safe Mode?

If that works, the task is usually to find the offending driver. If you can boot in Safe Mode, try running MSCONFIG, STARTUP. Then uncheck everything, exit and try a normal boot.

This eliminates a lot of drivers being loaded, and if it loads OK, then the bad guy is probably one of those. Then start adding them back one at a time until it balks again.

Another thing is to disconnect and remove all peripheral hardware devices, then deal with them one at a time in the same way.

And, put your BIOS CMOS settings to what is generally referred to as the safe default ones.

In any case - this makes for a bump.