Slow XP PRO boot


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IM am currently trying to figure out why my boot is so slow at initial start up. When I boot, It sorta hangs there as if something is loading. The only thing I have at startup is my Anti Virus and Firewall. But even before I had installed them, it did this. Any ideas on what the issue could be?

My sytem is:

AMD Athlon XP 1800+

Asus Mother Board

Gforce3 ti 500

768 mb mem

Sound Blaster Live

HP 16x cdrw

50x cdrom

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Actually, a fiew of my friends that are running XP pro have the same problem. We have been trying to find out why it is happening but nothing so far. When we figure it out I will post it on the forums.

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Thanks.

I am not computer illiterate what so ever, I know my way around.

From building a cpu from the bottom up down to Windows/Linux etc.

So this is prob. the first wall I have hit this hard that I can remember. Any help would be great. For the life of me I just cant pin point this issue. I did try bootvis long while back to no avail.

Any comments are very welcome.

PM me or just post on this thread.

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don't do optimize.

run bootvis, go to options, advanced button, change delay time for boot dump trace to like 300sec.

then do trace next boot + driver delay.

then open created .bin file and see what's taking such long time

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If you hav a Via chipset and you installed the 4in1 drivers then you will get slow boots. You are best off using the default MS Via drivers. Oh yeah, the wall isn't Microsoft..the wall is Via.

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