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XP HOME - TAKES AT LEAST 3 TO 4 MINUTES TO LOAD

Mar 3, 2004 4:18PM PST

Hi all hopefully someone out there will have some advice for me. The header explains the problem. I have 2.8 ghz, pent 4, geoforce nvidia 5200 display card, audio galaxy sound Card by SoundBlaster, 2 - 120 gig hard drives. My machine is kept clean and have very little in right hand tray bare necessities, do a defrag and clean up every week. also have 1024 Ram as well


Tks hopefully somebody will have some answers or solutions for me

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Re:XP HOME - TAKES AT LEAST 3 TO 4 MINUTES TO LOAD
Mar 3, 2004 8:16PM PST

The usual items:

1. A worm or other pest/parasite has installed itself on the machine. Use Parasite detection/removal programs.

http://reviews.cnet.com/5208-6132-0.html?forumID=32&threadID=1313&start=0 notes the five scanning tools and removal tools that are fairly safe. If one does encounter an issue, its always been damage done by the MALWARE. The most common issue being Layered Service Provider replacement which you can use LSPFIX (Hint: use http://www.google.com to find).

The thread has follow on discussions about new links if you don't want to use Google to find an item.

2. Use STARTER from the above link to curb startup items.

3. http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/hwdev/tech/storage/IDE-DMA.mspx

Simple procedure to DO, not look.

4. An unused ethernet port extends boot time. Disable such.

5. Other items, but no history about your issue. If it did it NEW, then why not make this the suppliers issue to fix?

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Why is 1 gig of Ram not good?
Mar 4, 2004 11:09AM PST

If there is nothing wrong with the memory,
1 gig is fine. This isn't Win98 anymore.

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Re:Why is 1 gig of Ram not good?
Mar 4, 2004 5:41PM PST

Although there is no limit for XP, some users find the system starts to go slow with more than 512 MB. It is therefore a waste if programs do not call for the extra RAM.

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Re:Why is 1 gig of Ram not good? Didn't write that.
Mar 4, 2004 8:19PM PST

Such steps are to discern where the problem is.

Since I've cured too many machines with unplugging a memory stick, upgrading the power supply, updating a BIOS, changing IDE cables, updating FIRMWARE in CD/DVD drives and ...

The problem is, where to start.

Ask why, but also ask why not?

Bob

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Re:XP HOME - TAKES AT LEAST 3 TO 4 MINUTES TO LOAD
Mar 3, 2004 8:23PM PST

1,024 MB RAM is not necessarily good. Try halving that.

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Re:XP HOME - TAKES AT LEAST 3 TO 4 MINUTES TO LOAD
Mar 4, 2004 6:33PM PST

Here is something to think about; if your computer have a network card but not connected to a network, then you will experience long load time. And if this is your situation you can go into device manager and disable this NIC. (put a chech on "disable this device"

Something else you might do is to load up windows using dos mode (if that is possible to do in XP) to see what device takes such a long time to load. Good luck.

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Re:XP HOME - TAKES AT LEAST 3 TO 4 MINUTES TO LOAD
Mar 4, 2004 7:23PM PST
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Re:XP HOME - TAKES AT LEAST 3 TO 4 MINUTES TO LOAD
Mar 6, 2004 3:39PM PST

just download the service pack1 and also see that the netwrok fire wall is filtering rather than blocking all because every time windows checks up for the availability of the network when it startsup also the svchost.exe-network service will eat up a huge amount of ram at startup kill that process,it might help.please reply to india1a@sify.com