Windows XP - Long Startup - HELP?

[Zoologist]

Hello,

I have been having a problem loading up windows XP, and it has been gradually getting longer and longer. When loading up XP from a cold start the "Windows XP Loading Screen" where the bar is going across sometimes takes like 2 - 3 minutes to load. This is ridiculous considering sometimes it will do it in 5 - 6 passes sometimes. What is going on? Thanks. Here are my specs:

Asus A8N32-SLI Deluxe Bios 1303
AMD Athlon 64 3200+ Socket 939
Corsair XMS Pro Twin X (512 x 4) 2048 MB
Evga 7600 GT 256 MB
Seagate Barracuda 160 GB SATA w/ NCQ

 

[corkyg]

Most of that time is the loading of drivers and handshaking with peripherals. If you want it faster, then reduce the mount of stuff required to be loaded at startup.

Sometimes we are creatures of convenience, and allow things to be set up to work automatically, on a schedule, etc. Each of those things costs boot/load time. There is a minimum set of things that need to be in MSCONFIG/STARTUP.

 

[Zoologist]

 

[Zoologist]

I used msconfig and unchecked everything and now it seems to work better. However, the new Nvidia driver 91.31 is installed and I did the registry fix and now I dont get the SLI issue popping up anymore, but it will not quit starting up at startup. I uncheck it in msconfig and every time I start up the computer again it keeps showing up. Does anyone have a fix for this?

 

[corkyg]

Obviously it is reinstalling itself based on preferences it has recorded. Go into your Nvidia control apparatus and look for preferences, options etc. It really is only doing what it was told to do - probably on installation. We get a lot of fast questions and choices to make without really being ready to answer them. So we need to go back and revisit those things.

 

[ThunderDawg]

The nVidia driver v. 91.31 was the first time nVidia required you to uninstall previous drivers and reboot before you install the new one. If you didn't, you should do that first.

Also, you probably already know this, but never EVER get nvidia drivers from MicroSoft.