Slow XP Loading

HamZilla · 17 Jan 2008 at 12:54

I have just built a pc with the following:-

Abit IP35
E2180 (still running at 2Ghz but will be oced)
Geil ULL 6400 2Gb (still to install another 2Gb)
Seagate 250Gb
Ocuk 3850 512Mb
Corsair HX520

First thing I did was increase the voltage to 2.10 on advice from here as it wouldn't post initially. Then updated the BIOS to fix the double boot issue.

Its taking ages when loading XP Pro, I get the first black background with XP logo and progress bar for about 3 seconds then the screen goes blank for an eternity, the hdd light barely flashes during this point, then after 20-30 seconds it shows the blue "Logging on" screen" and this takes a further 10 seconds before finally loading the desktop.

All I have done so far is install the Abit mobo drivers, and ATI drivers, and windows updates. The delay has been there before and after these installs.

Can anyone give some pointers on why it may be taking so long?
My 4+yrs old AMD XP2000 is faster in loading!

uv · 17 Jan 2008 at 13:12

Is the Seagate Pata? Is it in PIO mode?

knockonwood · 17 Jan 2008 at 13:40

mine is also slow on boot and it is a new build, 500gb western digital sata hd?

ive been in the bios but cant seem to see anything.... once it is running though it is quite fast.

HamZilla · 17 Jan 2008 at 14:57

Its a Seagate SATA 7200.10. Not sure what mode its in. What mode should it be?

geeza · 17 Jan 2008 at 15:02

HamZilla said:
Its a Seagate SATA 7200.10. Not sure what mode its in. What mode should it be?

not PIO mode. Right click my comp - devices - disk drives - select ATA100/133 or SATA (never used sata before but mine was on pio before and took ages to load up)

HamZilla · 17 Jan 2008 at 15:16

I know my older machine has the PATAs at ATA Mode 5 so SATA is new to me.

HamZilla · 18 Jan 2008 at 11:33

Ok I think I've figured out the problem. I disabled the IDE in BIOS running NEC DVDRW and ancient Pioneer 106. Now the loading is superfast easily within 10 seconds as a guesstimate.

Will try disabling the 106 and see if it still affects the load times with my NEC, otherwise I will need to be a SATA version.

So much for keeping within budget.

willhub · 18 Jan 2008 at 13:47

Even my rig is slow on booting Windows XP and Vista :confused:

, its like 18 bars for Vista and 8 for XP

, but performance in the OS is generally fine but the fact its taking so long is bugging me as it was running fine at first so I have no clue as to why this problem occurs.