XP boot 40 second "pause"
Ian
time my PC was suffering from a HD problem, and was running VERY slow.
A symptom I assumed was part of this was that Windows XP Pro would
pause for 30-45 seconds while booting. Having just upgraded the HD
the system as a whole runs MUCH faster however the pause is still
present.
To try and identify what's causing the problem I detached all drives
and PCI cards, except graphics card and Hard Drive, the PC booted fine
with no problems. I then added one card/drive at a time and the
problem reappeared when the Benq CD-RW was replaced.
In the boot up process the BIOS has completed loading, the white
(ascii) loading bar completes and the WinXP loading screen appears,
the pause happens as soon as this loading screen appears. The blue
loading bar is still animated, however there's no HD accessing or any
other signs of activity.
The firmware on the CD-RW is at the latest revision, and I can't find
any drivers for this other than WinXP's own.
I'd really like to know what is happening at this point in the boot
process and if anyone has had any similar experiences or knows of a
solution.
Thanks in advance
Ian
The spec of the system is as follows:-
Abit KT7A motherboard (latest firmware and latest Via 4in1 drivers)
Athlon XP 1700
Creative GeForce 2mx 32MB
IBM 40Gig ATA-100 7200rpm Hard Drive (Master on IDE1)
Pioneer A04 DVD-ROM (Slave on IDE1)
Benq 3210A CD-RW (Master on IDE2)
Intel 10/100 Ethernet card
Diamond 56k modem
Creative Soundblaster 4.1
Marvin
the slave on IDE1?
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Marvin
David Wilkinson
@posting.google.com:
> A symptom I assumed was part of this was that Windows XP Pro would
> pause for 30-45 seconds while booting. Having just upgraded the HD
> The spec of the system is as follows:-
>
> Abit KT7A motherboard (latest firmware and latest Via 4in1 drivers)
> Athlon XP 1700
> Creative GeForce 2mx 32MB
> IBM 40Gig ATA-100 7200rpm Hard Drive (Master on IDE1)
> Pioneer A04 DVD-ROM (Slave on IDE1)
> Benq 3210A CD-RW (Master on IDE2)
> Intel 10/100 Ethernet card
> Diamond 56k modem
> Creative Soundblaster 4.1
I had the very same symptom, but the problem turned out to be the network
card. You don't say how your network card is being used, but it may be
waiting for and IP number to be assigned to it. I'm using a DSL service
and I had to assign an IP number to my network card. When I did, the
pause, which was about 40-60 seconds, was eliminated.
If you think this may be the problem, try this:
Click- START
Click- CONNECT TO
Click- SHOW ALL CONNECTIONS
Right Click- LOCAL AREA CONNECTION
Click- PROPERTIES
Highlight- INTERNET PROTOCOL (TCP/IP)
Click- PROPERTIES
Click- USE THE FOLLOWING IP ADDRESS
Next To IP ADDRESS type in 198.168.0.1
Subnet mask will probably fill in itself.
OK your way back out and you may need to reboot.
This will prevent the PC from waiting for an IP that never arrives.
Jeff
being shared with a DVD-Rom that at the most will run at ATA-66 and that is
going to slow your hard drive down to whatever transfer rate the pioneer dvd
player runs at because the way a motherboard handles the maximum transfer
rate is it only allows a transfer rate to be whatever the slowest device
being used on the ide hookup. Meaning hooking up a hard drive and cd-rom
together will cause the hard drive to be reduced to the cd-rom's maximum
tranfer rate. You'll be better off to force that pioneer dvd-rom to run at
whatever that Benq cdrw is able to handle. Make the Pioneer dvd-rom the
master on IDE 2 and the cdrw the slave on IDE 2 and keep the ATA100 hard
drive as a master on IDE 1. See if that changes things for you.
"Ian" <ver...@totalise.co.uk> wrote in message
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Ian
the PC and I've fixed the problem!
I swapped my CD-RW from Master on IDE2 to Slave on IDE2
Then moved my DVD-ROM from Slave on IDE1 to Master on IDE2
Now everything magically works... Beats me why that should fix it,
but hey, I'm not going to complain.
Ian
Jeff and Marvin's posts appeared.
Thanks again,
Cheers,
Ian