I've been running Vista Ultimate since December without too many major
problems.

In the last couple of weeks, I've noticed that on one of my machines the OS
now takes about 5 minutes to boot (was previously 15-20 seconds).

There's 5 minutes of black screen after the boot options and before the
Copyright screen with the green bars appears, and from then on it's as
normal.

When I try booting in Safe Mode, the last driver to load successfully at
normal speed is ataport.sys and then comes the 5 minute wait, then it
continues.

I religiously keep up to date with Windows Update, and I'm fairly sure this
only started after installing a recent update, possibly my SATA controller.

Any ideas? This is very inconvenient. TIA.

BTN

Would this machine happen to be either an IBM or a Lenovo? If so, there are
known Vista boot issues (and 2 hotfixes) for these.

Stuart.
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"Sir Benjamin Nunn" wrote:

> I've been running Vista Ultimate since December without too many major
> problems.
>
> In the last couple of weeks, I've noticed that on one of my machines the OS
> now takes about 5 minutes to boot (was previously 15-20 seconds).
>
> There's 5 minutes of black screen after the boot options and before the
> Copyright screen with the green bars appears, and from then on it's as
> normal.
>
> When I try booting in Safe Mode, the last driver to load successfully at
> normal speed is ataport.sys and then comes the 5 minute wait, then it
> continues.
>
> I religiously keep up to date with Windows Update, and I'm fairly sure this
> only started after installing a recent update, possibly my SATA controller.
>
> Any ideas? This is very inconvenient. TIA.
>
> BTN
>
>
>

"Stuart [MVP]" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:6B3DE1E2-75D7-4F2C-AD51-(E-Mail Removed)...
> Would this machine happen to be either an IBM or a Lenovo? If so, there
> are
> known Vista boot issues (and 2 hotfixes) for these.


It's neither. I built the machine in question myself. Asus P5GD2, P4 550, WD
HDD, Crucial RAM, ATI x1650, Audigy 2ex.

Be willing to try the hotfixes though, as I guess it's possible I'm using a
component somewhere that also features in the machines you mentioned.

BTN