[XP Home] Long Delay During Boot in Microsoft Help http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r20502831 en Wed, 11 Nov 2009 05:05:36 EDT Wed, 11 Nov 2009 05:05:36 EDT Re: [XP Home] Long Delay During Boot http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20503402 gallowsroad : I had finished all the driver installations and MS updates.

Once you reboot the final time after the last update then run a check for more that turns up nothing, there shouldn't be anything else going on during the boot sequence, as nothing is being added or removed from the machine.

For fun I restarted the machine cold several more times without making any changes, and the long delay is still occurring.

I doubt it will just go away on its own, since the driver and Windows installs/updates are long complete.

I wish it would. :)
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- John Lydon, last Sex Pistols show]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20503402 Sun, 18 May 2008 20:20:44 EDT Re: [XP Home] Long Delay During Boot http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20503346 HRM : Wait for the system to set itself up. There are lots more things going on after a major update, or fresh install than normally would happen during a routine shut down. I would ignore it for a day or two, get everything installed and see if it gets better.

If everytime you reboot there are major changes, it has lots of things to do and it won't boot at the same speed once you just use the machine for browsing and normal tasks.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20503346 Sun, 18 May 2008 20:09:40 EDT [XP Home] Long Delay During Boot http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20502831 gallowsroad : Hardware:

Asus A8N-E
AMD Opteron 180 x2
eVGA Geforce 8600GT
Seagate 250GB SATA 300

This is a fresh install, SP3, with the correct updated chipset and graphics drivers.

During boot the machine stalls on the Windows screen, with the little blue bars going across for 30+ seconds. Then the processor and GPU fans suddenly speed up for a second, then resume their regular speed, and the machine finishes booting.

This exact hardware config (no changes in BIOS) ran SP3 just fine without this weird boot hitch prior to the fresh install.

Any suggestions?
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