Windows boot problem

[CheesePoofs]

Ever once and a while, when windows boots, the little bar thing will go about half way, stop, go some more, stop, go again, etc. When it does this, it takes about 5 minutes to boot. It seemed to do this most often when I had changed some setting in the bios or OS.

I thought it was my nvidia IDE drivers, because I've heard bad things about them, so I rolled back the IDE drivers. Now it seems to be worse.

With the nvidia drivers, I could reboot and it'd start like normal. With the microsoft ones, I'd reboot once, and it'd do the same thing again, then I'd reboot and it load windows but give me no image, then I'd reboot again and it'd be fine. It did this consistantly.

Any one know what this could be?

Thanks

Edit: I switched back to nvidia IDE drivers, and its happening much less often, but still happening.

 

[DennyD]

If you suspect your video drivers, try going into safe mode or on the advanced startup menu, try Enable VGA Mode. Another idea is to uninstall the video card in the device manager and then let windows redetect it on the next startup. Lemme know if it helps!

 

[speed01]

DennyD, the nvidia drivers mentioned are the motherboard chipset drivers, it's an NF4 board. CheesePoofs, have you updated the drivers lately? There is a 2/24 release on the DFI site, version 6.39. Installing the newest version may help.

Speed