Desktop running XP Home Edition taking 30 minutes to boot

[bagarow]

Hi

I have a desktop with Intel Celeron 2.6Ghz running Windows XP Home
Edition. It normally used to boot up in 2-3 minutes. However in the
last couple of days, it is been taking a long time to boot up - upto
30-35 minutes. This machine is one of 3 machines on a home network. It
is connected via a physical ethernet cable to a wireless DLINK
broadband router.

The screen stays black for this entire 30-35 minutes. At the end of it
however, I do get the XP login screen. And once I login, I am able to
start applications that seem to work fine. During this 30-35 minutes,
the HDD light on the computer is flashing orange rapidly. I also an
DVD-RW internal drive connected inside - and this drive constantly
flashing a green LED during this 30-35 minutes.

I looked at the event log and found the following warnings and errors
in the System Event log:

Date: 6/29/2006
Source: EventLog
Time: 3:12:07 PM
Category: None
Type: Information
Event ID: 6006
User: N/A
Computer: yyyy
Description: The Event Log service was stopped

<<... Almost 20 minutes later - machine still not up ... >>
Date: 6/29/2006
Source: EventLog
Time: 3:31:20 PM
Category: None
Type: Information
Event ID: 6009
User: N/A
Computer: yyyy
Description: Microsoft (R) Windows (R) 5.01 2600 Service Pack 1
Uniprocessor Free

Date: 6/29/2006
Source: EventLog
Time: 3:31:20 PM
Category: None
Type: Information
Event ID: 6005
User: N/A
Computer: yyyy
Description: The Event log service was started

<<< .... Events regarding various services starting successfully not
detailed - These services events had Source as "Service Control
manager. The servics themselves were - Logitech LVPrcMon Driver, Remote
Access Connection Manager, Terminal Services ....>>>

<<< ... About 10 minutes later ....>>

Date: 6/29/06
Source: Browser
Time: 3:44:08pm
Category: None
Type: Warning
Event ID: 8021
User: N/A
Computer: yyyy
Description: The browser was unable to retrieve a list of servers from
the browser master \\RIVER on the network
\Device\NetBT_Tcpip_{0301C20A-221D-4CB0-0665FB80BDD1}. The data is the
error code.

Date: 6/29/2006
Source: IdeChnDr
Time: 3:46:32pm
Category: None
Type: Error
Event ID: 9
User: N/A
Computer: yyyy
Description: The description for Event ID (9) in Source (IdeChnDr)
cannot be found.
Date: 6/29/2006
Source: Cdrom
Time: 3:46:32pm
Category: None
Type: Error
Event ID: 11
User: N/A
Computer: yyyy
Description: The driver detected a controller error on \Device\CdRom0

Date: 6/29/2006
Source: Cdrom
Time: 3:46:32pm
Category: None
Type: Error
Event ID: 11
User: N/A
Computer: yyyy
Description: The driver detected a controller error on \Device\CdRom1

Date: 6/29/2006
Source: PlugPlayManager
Time: 33:47:42pm
Category: None
Type: Error
Event ID: 12
User: N/A
Computer: yyyy
Description: The device 'DVDRW IDE 16X'
(IDE\CdRomDVDRW_IDE_16X___________A091_____\5&300afdb3&0&0.1.0)
disappeared from the system without first being prepared for removal.

Date: 6/29/06
Source: Browser
Time: 3:49:17pm
Category: None
Type: Warning
Event ID: 8032
User: N/A
Computer: yyyy
Description: The browser has failed to retrieve the backup list too
many times on transport
\Device\NetBT_Tcpip_{0301C20A-221D-4CB0-0665FB80BDD1}. The backup
browser is stopping.

This machine also has a DVD-RW that I added later. And I have recently
having problems with it - I have not been able to burn DVDs in the
DVD-RW - Nero shows an "Power Caliberation error" on burning data DVD
discs in this DVD-RW. The DVD-RW is able to read CDs, DVDs and burn CDs
just fine.

Nero InfoTool shows the following:
- Primary IDE Channel
- Master: Maxtor - 4R080L0
DMA on
- Secondary IDE Channel
- Master: SAMSUNG CDRW/DVD SM-348B
DMA on
Autorun on
- Slave: DVDRW IDE 16XDVD SM-348B <<...the DVDRW I am having
problems with ... >>
DMA off
Autorun on.

Can anyone advise me what to do next to diagnose / fix this problem?

Thanks
Bob

 

[Guest]

What do you get when you boot in safe mode? If you get into safe mode might
as well disable all your startups, run > msconfig > startup > disable all

Sounds like the stall in normal startup is due to a device problem, in which
case you could simply disconnet everything from the back of the pc except for
the monitor, keyboard and mouse. But you can get a better idea via safe
mode.....

 

[John John]

You have hardware problems on your controller. Look here:

How to troubleshoot event ID 9, event ID 11, and event ID 15 error messages
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=154690

You might get more information by searching here:
http://www.eventid.net/search.asp

You can remove unnecessary devices from the IDE chain and see if things
improve, adding them one at a time thereafter will help finding the culprit.

John

 

[John John]

PS. Until you resolve the issue try removing the Browser duties from
the machine. Go to:

HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Browser\Parameters

and change IsDomainMasterBrowser to No.

at the same key change MaintainServerList to No.

You can change these again later on. If you can't browse the network
properly (from any machine) assign the duties to another machine on your
network.

John