Why does xp pro take 2 hours to boot up?

[Jhill]

I just reformatted and installed a few things.
Ok it's not quite 2 hours. The post screen goes by fine. It recognizes all my drives fine. Then I get a black screen for a full minute then the blue xp bar goes by for at least 30 seconds then I get another black screen for 30 seconds or so then the desktop finally shows.
What gives?
under ms config there is

nvcpl (rundll32)
icqnet
artmouse (mouseprogram)
popupadfilter
msmsgs
reboot
zonealarm

I don't think it's one of those program causing this though.

 

[compudog]

ZoneAlarm could be the cause, especially if you have a managed NIC and netwoked PC's.

 

[Jhill]

Thanks,

I just disable all of my startup programs execpt rundll and it took even longer to boot up. I have a k7s5a motherboard and quickboot is enable and l1 and l2 cache is enabled and bios cache is enabled.

Any more opinions?

 

[Bug]

See what happens when you clear everything in the "Prefetch" folder in the Windows directory.

 

[Jhill]

I cleared my prefetch folder and it's the same.
I put in another hard drive and booted to it, where I used to get a blank black screen I get a "boot loader initalizing------ez bios- hold control key down for status screen" That screen stays there for about a minute before it boots up.

I'm thinking it has something to do with my motherboard.

 

[MrDudeMan]

Originally posted by: Jhill
I cleared my prefetch folder and it's the same.
I put in another hard drive and booted to it, where I used to get a blank black screen I get a "boot loader initalizing------ez bios- hold control key down for status screen" That screen stays there for about a minute before it boots up.

I'm thinking it has something to do with my motherboard.

that ezbios bullsh1t is something flashed onto the hard drive, nothing to do with the computer


chances are you are having problems with the network port/card. xp boots really slow if you have a network card in and nothing connected to it or there is a problem with it.


other than that, you either have faulty RAM or something is grounded funny on the mobo (of faulty)


i would try different RAM first and take out everything except the video card and the hard drive and disable everything in the bios, even the parallel and the serial ports.


you need to take out EVERYTHING that isnt necessary for you to see what is happening and for it to function, and work from there.