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Startup Issues.

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swanysto

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So I searched around and couldn't find anything that helped my particular problem, so if I missed it somewhere please point me to that thread.

I will start with my computer.
Corsair 550Watt
Abit IP35-E
E4500 @2.2
WD 200gb Sata
Samsung DVD-R
BFG 7800GT OC
2gb OCZ Platinum DDR2 800
WinXP Pro

The problem is that when I turn the computer on or restart it the system starts up INCREDIBLY slow. It takes anywhere from 4-6 minutes to get into windows. I have had this computer for almost a year now and it has never had this issue. It started about a week ago. The kicker is...when I get into windows the system runs completely normally. All my benchmark programs give me the same results and my games/programs run normally also. Coretemp and my bios show that my temps are just fine. It is not a heat issue. It is not overclocked either.

I would think it would be a hardware problem cause it is doing this with any OS I try. I have reformatted and taken everything apart and put it back together and the same problem exists.

The only think I can think of is that my bios or cmos are messed up. I wouldn't know the first thing about correcting this problem though. I have tried resetting the CMOS and nothing has changed.

Anyone experience a problem like this? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks
swany
 
it could be your drive cables, (cd rom, hard drive) make sure they are not bended, try replacing them with other cables. Is your HD SATA?
have u installed new hardware recently?
 
well, I think I found the problem. I have an external HD. (Maxtor 750gb 7200 16mb cache) Apparently when it is plugged in at start-up or restart it stall my system. When I wait and plug it in when windows is loaded I have no problems.

Is this normal?
 
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