Office PC takes insane amount of time to boot.

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zhopudey

zhopudey

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My office PC is taking close to 5mins to boot! (Thats correct - 300secs :O).
Here are the details -
A64 3200+ Winny, MSI Neo2P,1gb generic (single stick), XFX 6600gt, Some 450W PSU, 80gb Pata, 200gb Sata (OS on 80gb). Win XP Pro SP2 (Licensed of course :P)

POST is fine without problems. I have enabled the /SOS switch in boot.ini. XP runs thru loading drivers and dlls without a hitch. It then gets stuck on the blue screen, which says " Microsoft (r) Windows(r) version 5.1 (something). 1 system processor. 1024mb memory. "
It stays here for over 3-4 mins!!! After about 4mins, the HDD led starts blinking. Then it checks the status of the hdds; shows all drives are clean. Finally it comes to the desktop.

After this, system works fine without any problems. I have BootVis, but don't know how to use it. Somebody help me please!
 
run the traceboot option and let it reboot .. once its done it should give you a graph with what loads at startup and how much time it took
 
bottle said:
run the traceboot option and let it reboot .. once its done it should give you a graph with what loads at startup and how much time it took
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how do u run traceboot? :huh:
 
First thing I would check is that the HDD is on DMA and not PIO mode. Also - Run a thorough error scan with HD Tune.
 
I used BootVis - Trace Next Boot + Driver Delays, and selected "Shutdown before Tracing". And all the graphs are BLANK!!! :O

I think I'll remove the 200gb and try with just the 80gb.

@Eazy, will try HD Tune as well.
 
zhopudey said:
FOOK!!!! What the hell is this!
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AHA !! A P.O.S. P.S.U. :D

Run the error scan from HDTune not the Benchie. I think a more powerful PSU should solve your problem.
 
zhopudey said:
Will run error scan. But what about the missing graphs in bootVis?? :huh:
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Me thinks you should click on any of the 3 items mentioned on the left side which show the pink graphs and you will see some graphs..... for instance "Disk I/O"
 
Well I clicked all over the screen :P Will try another trace once this disk scan is over. 50% done without any errors :D
 
Okee....the hdd is fine. But BootVis is not :no: Did a new trace, waited for 5 mins again; and nothing :P

BTW, I should have mentioned this, but the install was borked. Took ages to install, frooze up a couple of times, and I had to restart all over again. But the sys ad here will loose his nuts if I format and reinstall again. Seems microsucks has a limit of 3 or 5 authorisations per license, and I've already reinstalled thrice :P
 
zhopudey said:
:P You've posted this before. And I've already tried that.
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YUP this was posted before. To me it seemed that the "Disconnected network drives" chakkar mentioned on this page may be a very likely reason for your problem. But if you have checked this then it must be something else.

Have you cleaned all the connection pins and changed the HDD data cables ?? Have you tried another PSU ??
 
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