XP loading screen 30sec prob

MarcLister · 12 Dec 2006 at 21:39

He's BAAACK!! You could take a screenshot of Bootvis and post that for us. Other than that I don't know of anything.

masterk · 12 Dec 2006 at 21:44

In this 32 seconds can you hear the hard drive being accessed or see the drive activity light? I would wager not, am i right?

snowdog · 12 Dec 2006 at 22:12

After reading the OP's post, i decided to do bootvis on my own pc, and while reading through the site the 2nd poster linked to, i saw the aim for windows loading is 30 seconds :confused:

?

Mine takes 86 according to bootvis, so im woundering if theres something wrong with my pc too?
Also says disk writing cache is disabled in red on the hdd activity graph :confused:

I Have 36 background processes in total...

To the OP:
Have you tried your hdd with windows to boot up on/with different hardware ( take out expansion cards, try a diff gfx card, etc...)? Perhaps its a hardware issue....

daveccc · 12 Dec 2006 at 22:31

Also says disk writing cache is disabled in red on the hdd activity graph
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ye says that in mine too

Margaret · 12 Dec 2006 at 22:35

System > Device Manager.

Go to IDE/ATAPI Controllers. Select primary channel. Right click properties. Click the Advance settings tab. Then on the device (0 or 1)that does not have 'device type' greyed out select 'disable' instead of 'autodetect'. This should stop windows trying to find a drive that isn't there.

If you have your IDE channels set up differently simply repat the above for the secondary IDE channel settings.

When I did this my boot time went from 3mins 20 to 35 seconds.

This reduced my boot time from like 20 secs to about 3 secs.

daveccc · 12 Dec 2006 at 22:57

o yes the boys done it ^ i did what you said before even reading your post, thought id check post before reboot and you said what i did, and im STUNNED boots up gets xp scroll screen does it stuff in out in no time

no more 32 sec wait

Margaret · 12 Dec 2006 at 23:01

daveccc said:
o yes the boys done it ^ i did what you said before even reading your post, thought id check post before reboot and you said what i did, and im STUNNED boots up gets xp scroll screen does it stuff in out in no time no more 32 sec wait

Congrats