Windows Xp takes about 5mins to load

[tonyle]

lol im scared i dont wanna wait another 5mins to load back up if it doesnt work.

[Jayzee]

Just run the harddrive utility and analyse your harddrive!

[tonyle]

i dont know where to find the harddrive utility :p

[Jayzee]

First of all you need to know what brand you HDD is (IBM, Seagate...)

then go to manifacturer website and look for their utilities.

[tonyle]

well just restarted and same thing had to wait 5mins again UUUHHHhhh

i dont know what brand mine is is there a way to find out?

[Jayzee]

Open the case?

[tonyle]

is there an alternative to that? i dont wanna break my computer any more

[shihchiun]

The device manager should tell you what brand your drive is. Right click on My Computer, go to the Hardware tab, click on Device Manger. If not, your BIOS should also tell you. Hit del, f2, or f10 while your computer is booting.

[Jayzee]

PC Wizard

[flashcore]

Seagates utility works on almost any drive. Ive yet to find a drive it will not work on so give that a shot. Ive used it on western digital and maxtor drives and it allways works.

[badtz_mark]

google for a program called bootvis

[tonyle]

kk im using pc wizard where do i go to find my harddrive/motherboard/harddisk info?

[Tungsten T]

go in the bios and set it to UDMA 5

[PseudoRandomDragon]

Holy crap what a bunch of stupid suggestions. :pinch:

How about asking the other person who used it (and messed it up) what the hell they did.

[Jayzee]

[tonyle]

says my BIOS is unspecified and it scans to check forever

and also the Drives section freezes

[Hankyone]

Holy crap what a bunch of stupid suggestions.  :pinch:

How about asking the other person who used it (and messed it up) what the hell they did.

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rofl yeah :D

last time my mom was on my comp my filesystem was all fuc*ed up

[tonyle]

man the drives section wont load it freezes everytime i click it

ive used seagate and it freezes everytiem i load it up.

i think theres something that has to do with scanning my drive or something.

Edited January 24, 2005 by tonyle

[idoia]

I say it could be the best time now for doing a backup

and to reformat , and play a new full unattended XP lite installation (with all your favorites programs pre-loaded and pre-registered)

if you have some free time ... :pc:

[sunbiz_3000]

I think I have seen this at many places that i have installed Xp pro at!! This is one of those driver problems !! Goto your motherboard manufacturer's site and try getting all the latest driver updates that u can get !!

If u think that, earlier it was fine and u havent made any changes to the PC, then most possibly u have been infected by some spyware program that has been loaded in startup !! Just goto msconfig.exe and then try checking the startup and telling what apps load !! If its not there in the startup here , it maybe loading silently !!!

The best that I would recommended to sucha problem is to scan with Ad-aware with latest updates, but as I see from the last posts that u have already done this....then may maybe a format and reinstall is the best solution....... I would rather not blame the hardware components sooo fast !!!

Also try installing some other antivirus that u may have and try scanning with that coz many a times some virus engines fail to detect some viruses and u may have one of those variants !!

Keep posting the updates !

[tonyle]

how do i reformat without a cd drive because HP totally screwed me over and gave me this firmware to fix my cd burner and now both cdburner and dvd player dont work so i have no cdrom drive.

ive already scanned twice with Trend Micro and Mcafee free ones.

[tonyle]

i think ive found my motherboard its called a VIA

[Malisk]

Jeez, that's one messed up comuter :wacko:

Well, by far easiest way to reformat and install Windows XP with would be to have a working CD/DVD drive and boot with the Windows XP CD, picking format when you're given the choice, of course after you've backed up everything you need to save. If it was HP that messed up your CD burner, can't you return it and have it replaced/fixed? I mean, it sounds like they did the mistake in giving you the wrong firmware, not you.

[tonyle]

lol tell me about it and they wont let me return it because its overdue or whatever neways im not really sure which website to go to for the VIA motherboards

[bigbadboy]

Jeez, that's one messed up comuter  :wacko:

Well, by far easiest way to reformat and install Windows XP with would be to have a working CD/DVD drive and boot with the Windows XP CD, picking format when you're given the choice, of course after you've backed up everything you need to save. If it was HP that messed up your CD burner, can't you return it and have it replaced/fixed? I mean, it sounds like they did the mistake in giving you the wrong firmware, not you.

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Hi

You said your CD drive is no longer working... Have you tried disconnecting it from you controller? It might be your problem....