Boot up problem

[hartken]

I have a windows XP computer that I had to reload the OS on it. I first did it from Windows as an upgrade. When the computer restarted I had to load a sata driver and I mixed up my cds and put a XP Home CD in instead of a XP Pro and I got a stop error.

I then restarted and ran setup from the CD. When setup first started it said "an existing Windows setup is already in progress, do you want to resume?" I hit no and did a clean install and everything went fine.

The only problem I am having is that it takes a while to boot up. It waits about 30 seconds before you see the Windows XP loading screen. It stays about 20 seconds on just a black screen, and then after that a white bar comes on the bottom, like how Windows 2000 use to load, and gets stuck at the first bar. After about ten seconds t goes all the way through and boots up pretty fast once the Windows XP loading screen comes on.

I am going to try to load windows again from the hard drive as an upgrade and see if that fixes it. Anyone know what is going on, or maybe the files on the hard drive that load windows? I check the boot.ini and all the standard files (config.sys, autoexec.bat...) and there's nothing wrong.

[jayb1234]

did you reinstall any chipset drivers?

[hartken]

I lost my SATA driver disk and had to get one off the internet. The funny thing was that on the Asrock (my mobo) website, there SATA driver didn't work. It gave me a stop error when it tried to scan my drive for the first time in Windows setup. I had to lookup the chipset itself (VIA 8237) to get a disk that worked.

[hartken]

Any thoughts? Do I have to format my hard drive and back everything up?