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Should it take over 5 mins to boot up?

G

glen

Lifer
Over 5 mins here.
I think DAP and MSmessanger get stuck in start up.



Computer:
Operating System Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition
OS Service Pack Service Pack 2
Internet Explorer 6.0.2900.2180
DirectX 4.09.00.0904 (DirectX 9.0)
Computer Name GLEN (Glen's Room)
User Name Owner

Motherboard:
CPU Type AMD Athlon XP-A, 2100 MHz (12.5 x 168) 2800+
Motherboard Name Epox EP-8RDA+ / FIC AU11 Chameleon (6 PCI, 1 AGP, 3 DIMM, Audio, LAN)
Motherboard Chipset nVIDIA nForce2 Ultra 400
System Memory 1024 MB (DDR SDRAM)
BIOS Type Award (03/05/03)
Display:
Video Adapter NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4200 (128 MB)
3D Accelerator nVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4200
Monitor Gateway Vivitron 1100 [21" CRT]

Multimedia:
Audio Adapter Creative EMU10K2 Audigy Audio Processor
Audio Adapter nVIDIA MCP2 - Audio Codec Interface
Audio Adapter nVIDIA MCP2 - Audio Processing Unit (Dolby Digital)

Storage:
IDE Controller NVIDIA nForce 2 ATA Controller (v2.5)
SCSI/RAID Controller D347PRT SCSI Controller
SCSI/RAID Controller HPT302 UDMA/ATA133 Controller
Disk Drive WDC WD307AA-00BAA0 (28 GB, IDE)
Disk Drive ST312002 2A SCSI Disk Device (120 GB, 7200 RPM, Serial-ATA/150)
Disk Drive ST360021 A SCSI Disk Device (60 GB, 7200 RPM, Ultra-ATA/100)
Optical Drive Generic DVD-ROM SCSI CdRom Device
Optical Drive NU DVDRW DDW-082 (DVD+RW:8x/4x, DVD-RW:8x/4x, DVD-ROM:12x, CD:40x/24x/40x DVD+RW/DVD-RW)
 
Are you booting from the 28GB drive?

Download and run Bootvis.exe from MS. That will help you diagnose your problem. Also delete derelict drives from your storage manager. Also try booting into safe mode and deleting derelict devives from your device manager.
 
Is your WD, the c drive? If it is, WDs don't like being set for master if it's the only thing on the channel.

Pull the jumper.
 
Just got done a couple of weeks ago cleanng a friend's machine, then last week my uncle's machine. Both were so loaded down with spyware, adware and trojans that it took about five minutes to boot...then crash after an hour or two of use. I had to dig deep into the registry for at least 5 on each machine that spybot and ad-aware couldn't fully clean (so they kept re-spawning).

The first clue on the first machine: when the desktop finally was usable, I got a multiple dialogs saying the website could be reached, and would I like to work offline. Except, I wasn't online, and had not launched any internet apps.
 
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