Boot Screen Slow Loading

[RJS2]

Hi Folks,

From the time to get from the bios load to the first windows boot screen is 30 seconds(not the welcome screen) on a fresh install and dont know why or how i can fix this, heres what ive done..

Wrote zeros to a 200 gb drive went thru the Western Digital tools to get the full capacity out of the drive 137gb then poped in the XP Pro cd and formatted it and it installed good. First thing when in windows I installed my drivers, sygate firewall and AVG , then windows updates (SP2) then a few other programs.

Does anyone know why it would take so long to get to the boot screen?

[EzyStvy]

Does the bios have a "fast boot" type option?
What is the boot order set to?
Do have any USB devices attached?
Is the pc part of a netwrok?

[RJS2]

Boot order: Hard Drive - Cd-Rom - Floppy

No Network

USB only printer never had a problem before with that.

Dunno about fast boot only thing changed in bios was boot order when I reformatted I changed Cd-Rom to first boot.

[glc]

If you have multiple controllers in the computer, and/or if any of them have RAID functions, it takes time to enumerate all that stuff. System details will be necessary to determine if this is the case, and to determine the correct way to minimize this delay.

[RJS2]

Im not set up on raid, I only have 1 hard drive installed, no cards in PCI slots only video card is in AGP slot.

Specs:

350 Watt Antec PSU
A7N8X-X ASUS AMD - Bios 1010
AMD Barton 2500+ 1.83
200 GB Western Digital 7200 RPM
1 GB Kingston Value Ram
Nec Floppy
DVD-Rom Lite-on
DVD-Burner Lite-on

[glc]

How are the drives cabled and jumpered?

[RJS2]

Just the one drive is jumped CS and cable is primary , secondary is free.

[EzyStvy]

Did you look in the bios to see if you have a fast boot option?

[RJS2]

Originally Posted by EzyStvy Did you look in the bios to see if you have a fast boot option?

No I couldnt find anything under fast boot option. I just dont understand why this is happening on my previous OS (before format) it never did this 30 seconds wait it was immediatly. I could be in windows in the time it takes to get to the boot screen thats its doing now back then.

[pam123]

Originally Posted by RJS2 No I couldnt find anything under fast boot option. I just dont understand why this is happening on my previous OS (before format) it never did this 30 seconds wait it was immediatly. I could be in windows in the time it takes to get to the boot screen thats its doing now back then.

Look to see if Quick Power On Self test is enabled.
It's in the Advanced BIOS Features menu, just before the boot order.

[RJS2]

Originally Posted by pam123 Look to see if Quick Power On Self test is enabled. It's in the Advanced BIOS Features menu, just before the boot order.

Yep its enabled thanks pam it helps you have the same motherboard.

I cant fiqure out whats happened I havent changed anything to the bios exact for the boot order when I reinstalled windows. Its a different drive im using than before was a 80 gig Western Digital but I dont see how the size matters?

I ran the diagnostic test for errors on the drive before and showed up good.

[pam123]

No wait. You said you had 137 Gb ?
It should have been 186 and you need to slip-stream SP2 :

http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase...slipstream.asp

If I'm reading this right you got 137 GB but you didn't attempt to treat the other 50 GB as a partition?
XP is checking for something.
Use disk management to set up the remaining space, patitioned and formatted, as a drive and see if your boot up time changes.