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xp boot times=crap!

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st4rk

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Okay, so today it's been so awesome. This is what happened:

got nfsu 2 and eq2, couple days ago just installed rome total war.
downloaded some live mixes, and finished preloading hl2 from steam (takes forever)

then i am shutting down my computer to restart and it totally freezes, only option is to reset it. boom. raid 0 crashes and everything is gone.

I try numerous "data recovery" programs to no avail, 2 hours and 5 shots of liquor later, I give up and reinstall xp.

Now I am sitting here at sp2 with xp installed on my seagate serial ata 160gbyte hd.

Before on my raid 0 setup it took approximately 13 passes of the windows xp bar before it went into windows.

Now that windows xp is installed on the single 160gbyte 7200rpm drive, it takes in excess of 20 passes of the windows xp bar to load.

Now, get this. I have a mini pc, the specs are much crappier than that of my main rig. It only takes 4 passes of the windows xp bar before it gets to windows xp! both installs of windows xp are practically the same. Here are the details:

main rig (supposedly fast, ya'd think it would load xp way faster than my mini pc)
3.2 prescott
1gb ram in ddr mode (4x256 pc3200)
7200rpm sata 160gb 8mb cache
2 80gbyte wd 8mb cache hd's (IDE) (not in raid anymore, heh)
radeon 9800 pro
pioneer dvd drive, lite-on cd burner
abit ic7 max mobo, intel 765pe chipset
sb audigy 2 zs platinum

mini pc:
amd xp 2100+
768 mb pc2100
seagate 250gb 7200 rpm hd
geforce ti 4200
shuttle mobo, via chipset (pretty sure)
sb audigy 2 platinum

Why does the crappier mini pc load faster?

Keep in mind I am currently on a fresh install of windows xp, there are at the most 20 processes running right now. And practically no programs loading on startup. What gives?
 
Err if one of your WD 80 GB Harddisks is failing then that is probably where your problem is at. if windows trys to load drive information of that disk and the disk is timing out then it would massivley slow down loading times.
 
Windows is not loading off the WD's anymore. The WD's are not in raid 0.

Right now I am loading apps and playing eq2 and nfsu 2 off the wd's. They are running fine and loading fast.

Windows is now loading off the Seagate SATA hd, and very slowly. But once it's in Windows it's fine, everything loads up quickly. It's really weird, but I hate how long it takes for it to get past the windows xp loading screen.

How many times does the bar pass on yours?
 
st4rk said:
Windows is not loading off the WD's anymore. The WD's are not in raid 0.

Right now I am loading apps and playing eq2 and nfsu 2 off the wd's. They are running fine and loading fast.

Windows is now loading off the Seagate SATA hd, and very slowly. But once it's in Windows it's fine, everything loads up quickly. It's really weird, but I hate how long it takes for it to get past the windows xp loading screen.

How many times does the bar pass on yours?
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5 Times On the Seagate barracuda

3 Times (if that) on the WD Raptors. RAID-0

Try resetting configuration data in your bios. (Don't reset your bios) there is a option called reset confgiuration data it may have "ESCD" in the title. That should resolved any possible hardware confilts that your system is experincing and weinerdows may be trying to negotiatiate on boot up.
 
Sounds also like it could be hardware issue. If you have too much stuff jammed into the comp, Windows sometimes gets confused as to what to assign to everything, so it takes time to run through all the assignments. Thanks to IRQ sharing, this doesn't happen often, but it happens, as there are sill circumstances where Windows might have to resolve a conflict, and it takes time. This happened to me when I had an old soundcard in there. I think you'd have to fiddle with BIOS and installed cards and such to see if this is a possible problem.
 
mine actually slowed down too once i installed a huge load of windows updates one day. it takes a lot longer, not sure why.
 
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