Black/white progress bar before XP loading splash screen?

richieboy · 6 Nov 2007 at 12:54

Unfortunately i'm worried about everything. Although this time i at least have a small reason, as its my media PC and will be used for watching TV i'd like it to turn on quickly, as my £20 freeview box is beating it for boot time at the moment...

Mana · 6 Nov 2007 at 12:58

i hate seeing that, but i have a 3500+ and i dont see it... i think it must be a driver issue, or something is loading slow at the start of the bootup process.

bledd · 6 Nov 2007 at 13:37

slow cpu/harddrive/ram cause this to show up

richieboy · 6 Nov 2007 at 14:46

bledd. said:
slow cpu/harddrive/ram cause this to show up

Any links? I still can't help but think its a software/driver thing rather than hardware.

bledd · 6 Nov 2007 at 14:54

no links, if you use xp on an older system, you get these showing up

if performance is on par when in windows, don't worry about it

richieboy · 6 Nov 2007 at 15:00

That's the thing, this is a new build.

AMD X2 4000+ with 2GB of GeIL ULL RAM and a 500GB SATA2 Samsung Spinpoint...i have much older PC's running XP that don't do it (P4 2.4/512MB RAM,etc), so am struggling to believe its a hardware issue.

tom_e · 6 Nov 2007 at 15:08

if your using it as a media box and want quick boot times hibernate it rather than shutting it down

fini · 6 Nov 2007 at 15:14

bledd. said:
no links, if you use xp on an older system, you get these showing up

Maybe on an older system you've seen, for whatever reason, but not on all old machines. I've seen XP running on a host of old computers and it doesnt seem anything to do with the speed of the computer to me. My father, for example, uses an old P4 800mhz laptop with 256mb RAM (IIRC) and it doesn't show the bar on that.

bledd · 6 Nov 2007 at 15:20

i fall back to this

bledd. said:
if performance is on par when in windows, don't worry about it

richieboy · 6 Nov 2007 at 15:37

Fair play pal, i'm not worried anymore as i installed Vista (fool! i hear you scream) and of course there is no longer the progress bar...im just interested as to why it appears.

Ace Modder · 6 Nov 2007 at 17:24

maybe it's part of the POST boot, is there a pattern to the bios makers ?

snowdog · 6 Nov 2007 at 18:08

Happens for me on some pc's and doesn't on others, poor pc's ( ie. 256 mb of ram, 500 mhz cpu) are more prone to do it than fast pc's ), just ignore it tbh I think it's a normall process of starting windows.