Slow boot up in Win2K?

[tchinhe]

It takes a minute from the point that I select to boot Win2 K to where the flash screen for Win2k to go off and then it takes another minute to load all the startup programs. I am using @home service with a static IP, RC5, net2phone, msn, real player, asus probe and palm hot sync. My machine spec is
K7 750
K7M
V3 2000 AGP
SB live value
REalmagic
Cnet NIC
Adaptec ISA SCSI
Philips 5XDVD
Plextor 8x4x32x
Zip
WD 18gb 7200rpm

Anybody knows what is wrong? I have it set the HD to DMA and write cache enabled. TRied the registry line for enableUDMA66 from 3dspotlight(it say intel chipset). Thanks for any help.

 

[yazz]

dont load any startup programs. do it manually.

 

[Kubla Khan]

I've been wondering if Win2K is somewhat slow at detecting/configuring SCSI or PCI IDE controllers. I have two rigs running Win2K. One is a P3 700 @ 886 on an Abit BF6 w/256 MB RAM and a Promise Ultra 66 controller. The other is a P3 550e @ 733 on an Asus P3B-F w/256 MB RAM using just the onboard IDE. The P3 550 system boots up pretty quickly, but the P3 700 with the Ultra 66 boots up rather slowly. Win2K treats the Ultra 66 as a SCSI device. Some new drivers just came out for the Ultra 66, and they seem to shave a little off the boot time.

Out of curiousity, does your rig boot up any faster if you pull the SCSI card out?

 

[Grminalac]

You are correct. I had a promise Ultra66 controller card in my system and the boot was terrible, I timed it and it added about a minute and a half. I imagine that scsi device is whats causing your slowdown as well. This happened in win98 (went to a black screen and did nothing then loaded win), Windows Millenium (looked as if everything locked up but didn't) and even in Win2k PRO (sat for a very long time 2 minutes). When the os loaded everything was fine,I benchmarked my hd and it ran as expected.
The odd thing is that this did not happen on my old system a PII400 on a old BX motherboard (not even sure of the name brand) with the promise controller installed, I'm not exactly sure why, could be because My gigabyte 6VX-4X already has DMA-66 onboard. Was nice to have a extra ide for my cd writer, but not worth it for the increased bootup time.
You can update the bios on the motherboard and on the controller card, but i'm not sure that would help.

 

[tchinhe]

Well there is one thing that I found out over at the system devices that the Onboard IDE controller of the K7M is being detected as ISA. I thought it is suppose to be PCI.

 

[tchinhe]

Anybody there?

 

[Grminalac]

Humm, I dunno if they should be PCI, or ISA. where in system did it tell you it was being detected as ISA, i found no mention of it in the devices. (Running win2kpro)
Seriously it has got to be your SCSI controller card. I imagine if you pull it out and boot (if possible, I'm assuming your hard drive is SCSI, the problem should dissapear. I have a slow bootup problem with a controller card plugged in even if nothing is running off of it.

 

[Needles]

How much RAM do you have? I had 128MB and it took ages for W2K to load up. I upgraded to 256MB and now it takes about 1min with start-ups and everything. W2K takes 100MB (or thereabouts) just sitting idle so god-knows what it needs when booting!

 

[tchinhe]

Here is where I found it.
Go to control Panel->System->Hardware->Device Manager->View->Resources by Type.
I will try the SCSI card trick. I only have a Zip hook to it.

I have 128 at first and now I have 256 but there is no significant difference.