USB kills XP Boot Times

[cajetan]

Can anyone out there tell me why enabling USB Host Controller slows m
boot time on my BRAND NEW PC to about 2 mins. If I removed the USB Hos
Controllers, I get Boot Time of 25secs?????

It's a clean install BRAND NEW PC (4 days old) all i did was put on WI
XP loaded M/B & VID Drivers and SP2, it doesn't have any other softwar
on it yet. Well it's got partition Magic and that's about it bu
Partition magic won't have anything to do with the USB controllers.

Interestingly there were 2 USB Host controllers; 1 Enhanced PCI-US
(for USB2.0) I think and 1 other one just USB Host Controller. I hav
tried it with both enabled and then 1 at a time. Longest boot up tim
is with both enabled and then with the enhanced one enabled. e
BOTH-2min Enhanced only-1.5min and the last one 1 min.

Have tried MSCONFIG & BOOTVIS & DEFRAG

cmon who's the SMART cookie here? help me solve this and get som
sleep...


Gigabyte GA-K8NF-9 939 NFORCE4 DDR 400/333/266 8CH AUDIO
AMD K8 Athlon64 3500+ Socket 939 Venice Core
TwinMOS 1GB DDR400 Dual-Channel Kit (2x512MB)
Seagate 160Gb 7200rpm 8 mb Cache NCQ Serial ATA
Gigabyte GA-NX66T128VP GeForce 6600GT VIVO TurboForce PCI Expres
Foxconn ATX326 Midi Tower 11-1 Card Reader Hyena 350W front USB2.0 cas
fan PCI-E hole
LiteOn SOHW-1673S Dual Layer 16

 

[Treeman]

I would suspect two things since this is a clean install.
The 11in1 card reader, or wrong wiring on the front usb connectors.
For some strange reason SP2 has problems with both Usb & Firewire
busses.
How many times have you seen folks say, "remove the Usb controller &
let XP re-install the drivers?"
I have an Atech 9in1 card reader, that SP2 just hated. Also plugging in
a thumb drive that worked perfectly well in SP1, would lock up the
computer.
Have you tried any peripherals in the Usb ports?
Just a hunch.
Best,
Treeman

 

[Jerry]

Did you install the chipset drivers? They should be on a CD.