why does my computer boot so slow?

[joker4hire]

Hello All,

I have a

p4EE 3.2
ati 9800xt
abit ic7g
maxtor 160gb sata 8m
1g corsair twinx (with led's)
sound blaster audigy

and for some reason, it loads slower than my previous computer (2.4ghz)

I notice that the hard drive light doesn't even start to light up until the windows status loading bar goes accross like 4 times.

Help!

 

[egale]

Just a guess but it is probably waiting for "something". If you have an onboard NIC and are not using it, the system may be trying to find a connection from it. If you disable the NIC in the bios, the startup will be faster.

 

[joker4hire]

Thanks for your reply,

It's just that the nic is used and plugged into a router... any other ideas?

 

[Big Lar]

You may want to give the Nic a static Ip, that seems to help boot times and pauses in browsing alot.

 

[lobadobadingdong]

which version of windows are you running? xp home/pro, 2k?

try running a full chkdsk, a defrag and tweaking