Waiting for HDD to stop before being able to dial in

[FillipoM]

Please offer some help on this one.

I have upgraded motheboard and CPU (Athlon XP 1600) and added Windows XP. When I boot up and get my desktop, I cannot dial up immediately. The HDD seems to be doing something in the background for a minute or so before I can get the dial up box on the screen. This never happened before. The egg timer is working while the HDD churns a bit. Its not a continual noise from the HDD but the occasional action.

Any ideas

Thanks

Phil 😕

 

[Mitzi]

Do you have Windows XP Home or Professional? I think Professional would take a little longer to boot than home because of the additional services it loads.

Also what speed is your hard drive? 5400RPM drives would be slower to finish booting than a newer 7200RPM drives.

My Win2K machine takes about 45 seconds, after its logged in to become usable and responsive- after all it has to load a virus checker, scanner software and some other things.

You could defrag your hard drive, that might speed it up a little.

Also there is a utility which speeds up the Windows XP boot, there was a thread about it afew days ago, click here

BTW, welcome to the forums! 😀

 

[FillipoM]

Thanks Mitzi,

I have XP Home, and have a 7200 HDD that I defraged last week.

The overall boot up is very quick. I can go stright into apps. It's when I try to dial-up I have to wait.

Phil😕

 

[Angrymarshmello]

Phil,

I had the same problem as you sorta - although it applied to everything - basically for a minute after it booted into XP it wouldn't let me open any apps - it would but it wouldn't do anything - then about 20-30 seconds later the hd would go into a frenzy and the apps would load up. Not sure why though.