Hard drive acting funny...

Demrok · Post by **Demrok** » Mon May 03, 2004 7:14 pm

Just installed WinXP Pro on a buds PC and for some reason it takes about 5 min to load windows...
it just sits at the WinXP logo screen and the bar keeps moving across over and over...
for an actual 5 min...
hard drive loads win98 in 45 secs or so... any setting I should check for in the bios?? I'll post system specs when I find them out but for now I think it's a Celeron 1.7 ghz 256 megs of DDR...
I'll find out the mobo soon

any ideas though?
thx!

Cheway · Post by **Cheway** » Mon May 03, 2004 8:01 pm

Start with installing the latest chipset drivers, then, failing that, check to see if you have a manual DNS server specified in the TCP/IP properties for your NIC. Windows XP Pro may be attempting to register with a non-existent DNS server. If all else fails, un-install and re-install everything NIC related.

Demrok · Post by **Demrok** » Mon May 03, 2004 8:51 pm

nope... didn't work...
tried Bootvis and it gave me an error about an entry point... ? I dunno what that means..
anyone have any other ideas?
Clean install of Win XP pro... and a 5 min startup time...
but the comp runs fine when it's finally booted and it only hangs one the WinXP load screen

ideas???

d_b · Post by **d_b** » Mon May 03, 2004 9:19 pm

More ram? That's all I can think of. My first venture into XP was with 256meg o' ram. It ran slow and booted even slower.

Karchiveur · Post by **Karchiveur** » Mon May 03, 2004 9:31 pm

Meh thats Peanuts !! i was running 128 ddr until i got that nice deal on the 256

Post by **FlyingPenguin** » Mon May 03, 2004 10:17 pm

Demrok, clean install? No security patches? Are you behind a router or firewall? If not, you may have become infected with the Sasser virus. Like MSBlaster it just comes in on an open port unless you install the security update, or block the port.

It'll slow down your system a lot and give you funny errors.

More info here: http://www.pcabusers.net/forums/showthr ... adid=34126

smb · Post by **smb** » Tue May 04, 2004 8:22 am

I would say fdisk and reinstall as well.

Demrok · Post by **Demrok** » Tue May 04, 2004 7:58 pm

Demrok, clean install? No security patches? Are you behind a router or firewall? If not, you may have become infected with the Sasser virus. Like MSBlaster it just comes in on an open port unless you install the security update, or block the port.

Comp has NOT been hooked up to the net, its just a standalone PC
Fdisked, repartitioned and put a clean install of WinXP pro, so there is now way of a virus gettin on the PC. No patches or anything as well... SO I don't know WHAT could be wrong...
anyone have any ideas? or questions about something that I haven't talked about??

thx guys!

Absolut Talent · Post by **Absolut Talent** » Tue May 04, 2004 8:43 pm

if it is hanging at the boot screen...its because it is trying to boot a device that has something wrong with it. Double check you got your motherboard drivers all correctly installed. If you have onboard raid, make sure you have it disabled or the correct drivers installed. Try updating the chipset drivers. Try pulling the soundcard as well