Lag before Windows startup

[north6633]

I have searched to see if anyone else has had this problem. to no avail.

What is happening is when I sturt my computer up. It goes through the BIOS and detects the drives. Then just stops and sets there for about 3 minutes. Nothing happening hthe harddrive isn't running nothing. Then all of a sudden it starts windows up and it loads nd boots normally and runs without a hitch.

Now if I during that 3 minute pause I shut of the computer and restart it It will kick me to the windows closed improperly and gives you all the options to eitehr start normally or in safe mode, amongst may other options. If I tell it to start normally. Thats just what it does, fires rright up like nothing is wrong.

I just did a fresh intall thinking I had something wring with windows. beacause after I first built teh sysetem this did not happen. about 2 months late rit started sporadically happening and now its the norm.

so has this happened to anyone else. I have went though and cleared the prefetch shutdown the everything in msconfig that did not seem essential. I don't know where to go from here. I am at a total a loss. Have searched the forum for similar problems but I have not found any mention of this.

Any help is much appreciated.
Thanks in advance

 

[djnes]

You probably aren't getting to the point of having drivers loaded, apps loaded, or networking services started yet, so none of them are likely the problem. I would go through your BIOS again and make sure all of your BIOS options are set correctly. For example, make sure the BIOS isn't set to boot from a network (PXE) etc. That could cause a delay.