- Nov 6, 2005
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To make a long story short---I bought a fairly modern used computer cheap in ebay--and as a bonus they threw in a pile of malware at no extra charge.
Its a sempron 3000 64 bit processor, 768 MB of PC 32000 DDR ram, an 80 Mb hard drive, and it came with a win XP pro install disk and windows coa sticker that does receive windows updates. After spending an inordinate amount of time getting the malware off--I believe I am now malware free with proper security in place.
Yet my boots are in-ordinately slow---it takes some 20-25 seconds to finish processing the
bios screens and get to the first windows screen--the one with the windows flag--and another 20-25 seconds to get to display all of my three available boot profiles---after picking one of those windows plays its song and loads my personal settings---getting to the desktop some 20 to 30 seconds after that---------and then it gets wildly variable---because when the desktop loads the standard windows wallpaper loads---followed by the icons in anywhere between 10 seconds and a glacial hundred or more seconds later---and as as soon as the icons load I am ready to go.---and the variability in boot times almost always hinge on that gap between the wallpaper loading and the icons loading
I have tried a bootvis to optimize the system---and with and without a trace files. But any gains I make are usually gone a few boots later---and in the trace file---boot vis displays the message---warning disk write caching not enabled---but device manager claims it is.
And nothing in bootvis seems to give a clue on what the hang up is.--but I am not that familiar with boot vis to be able to say what is normal or not normal--and the documentation is not exactly robust.
I have tried a repair install but that aborts with the message that the dmio.sys file corrupted---and I find little to troubleshoot why---but memtest86 booted off a cd shows the memory is good shape---and the system seldom if ever crashes once booted up.
I keep my hard disk defragged---the system is not overclocked or underclocked--I have a stable 400 watt power supply---I have less than 8gigs used on the hard drive---and no
unusual set of services seem to be running.---and regardless of the gap--services.msc seems to always return the same service running or stopped set
Any advice on how to proceed in troubleshooting would be appreciated.
Its a sempron 3000 64 bit processor, 768 MB of PC 32000 DDR ram, an 80 Mb hard drive, and it came with a win XP pro install disk and windows coa sticker that does receive windows updates. After spending an inordinate amount of time getting the malware off--I believe I am now malware free with proper security in place.
Yet my boots are in-ordinately slow---it takes some 20-25 seconds to finish processing the
bios screens and get to the first windows screen--the one with the windows flag--and another 20-25 seconds to get to display all of my three available boot profiles---after picking one of those windows plays its song and loads my personal settings---getting to the desktop some 20 to 30 seconds after that---------and then it gets wildly variable---because when the desktop loads the standard windows wallpaper loads---followed by the icons in anywhere between 10 seconds and a glacial hundred or more seconds later---and as as soon as the icons load I am ready to go.---and the variability in boot times almost always hinge on that gap between the wallpaper loading and the icons loading
I have tried a bootvis to optimize the system---and with and without a trace files. But any gains I make are usually gone a few boots later---and in the trace file---boot vis displays the message---warning disk write caching not enabled---but device manager claims it is.
And nothing in bootvis seems to give a clue on what the hang up is.--but I am not that familiar with boot vis to be able to say what is normal or not normal--and the documentation is not exactly robust.
I have tried a repair install but that aborts with the message that the dmio.sys file corrupted---and I find little to troubleshoot why---but memtest86 booted off a cd shows the memory is good shape---and the system seldom if ever crashes once booted up.
I keep my hard disk defragged---the system is not overclocked or underclocked--I have a stable 400 watt power supply---I have less than 8gigs used on the hard drive---and no
unusual set of services seem to be running.---and regardless of the gap--services.msc seems to always return the same service running or stopped set
Any advice on how to proceed in troubleshooting would be appreciated.
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