OS choice on boot & hang on windows welcome screen

lee87 · 20 Mar 2006 at 18:43

Hi, I have 2 problems that i'm not sure on how to fix.

1) On boot I am given a choice of two OS's to go into, Microsoft Windows XP Professional and (Windows Default). This started when I installed the dual core driver for my cpu about a month ago. I've looked at the boot file and I don't think there is anything wrong with it and it doesn't mention the (Windows Default) choice. If I choose this option it will say theres an error with hal.dll and not boot.

[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS /usepmtimer
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional"/noexecute=optin /fastdetect /bootlogo /usepmtimer

2) When windows is on the welcome screen it will pause for about 2mins. I know that this is caused by my wireless adapter as when I disable it on startup it will boot fast. Is there something I could do to fix this?

Any help would be great.

Mason64 · 20 Mar 2006 at 19:05

for the hanging have you got the latest driver for your Wireless Adapter?

lee87 · 20 Mar 2006 at 19:10

got the latest drivers. It used to boot fast until I installed Service Pack 2.

MossyUK · 20 Mar 2006 at 20:15

is it searching for more than one wireless network? my work lappy does that on boot, its fine at work or at home if i disable wireless, but otherwise it just hangs for ages searching for all networks. Try looking in your event logs, id be interested in a solution, but im too lazy to find one