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Originally Posted by PL_Kuba
I have one more minor problem. Windows starts kind of slow. Before I had new components everything was fast and now it takes like 3 minutes to load. After WindowsXP Pro. logo, there's another screen that says "Windows is starting..."
this is where it takes forever, but after that when os is loaded it goes fast - I can tell the difference with new cpu it's much faster.
It's probably not the fault of hardware. Right?
Would the new install of xp (format) help?
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Yes it would
, cause now you still have residual things in there from old system. You could probably do a bit of tweaking though to clean things up a bit.. 1 thing to look for is, do you have a NIC card installed and are U using it?? One of the things that take the longest on bootup is if U have a NIC card and are set to obtain IP address automatically but are not really using it, cause it will try for quite some time searching for DHCP server so windows can obtain an IP address but if there isn't one to be found then finally windows assigns a default one. This can be quite the time consuming thing upon bootup. I actually disable in the BIOS everything I'm not using, like parallel and serial ports, and personally I see no good reason the use DHCP on a small home network, so I have all the PC's here static assigned IP addresses, that way I can identify who is who and don't waste time on bootup searching for DHCP server...