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XP prelogin load time

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My computer used to boot up pretty quickly, not much time at all. However, after some drivers started to corrupt and someother things, i just decided to do a reformat.

However since I have reformatted, my computer takes much longer to load. I've gone through and used BootVis, along with making sure that only the bare minimum of programs start when the system boots up. And I think this works, as when my desktop shows up everything is ready to go, no wait at all.

Rather, where the time length is long is between the Windows XP logo and the bar with lines moving horizontally, and the 'Welcome' screen. In between these the screen just goes black for 30 seconds. The hard drive doesn't make any noise or anything. It never did this before.

Anyone have any ideas?

I'm running an Epox 8RDA+ on an AMD 2600+ with 1gig of RAM, along with a Maxtor 80gig 8mb cache HD. So I'm not sure what the hold up is.

if anyone has any ideas, I'd love to hear.
Thanks
ty
 
Hi man i got the same problem but no one from this forum knows what is doing this i know it is the network
related problem in windows xp the 30 sec the computer is idile it is waiting the network driver to load or something
 
You might try disabling DHCP, as it can take a LONG time to get an address from the server, especially if the network connection fails somehow. Try using static addresses.
 
thanks for the feedback.

since i just formatted it anyhow, i figured what the hell, i'll format it again, and install the updates one by one and try to see what may be causing it. Right now I've got all the window's updates installed (minus the windows media player 9 update) and it's working great, boots up as quick as it ever did.

Before I move forward I'll probably ghost it and then keep on trying things one by one.

Just curious, I don't have Ghost, so I'll probably buy it, unless does anyone have any good recomendations that would be better than Ghost, or that people like better than it?

thanks
ty
 
I highly recommend Ghost. Great program.

I had a problem like yours. Mine turned out to be the video drivers for my AIW 7500. After I upgraded them I didn't have anymore problems.
 
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