Windows XP Pro. locks up after booting for about 10-15 minutes...

[Guest]

Hello All,

I hope somebody can help me to bring my system to its full potential.

I have HP Pavillion notebook model ZD7160US which came with Windows XP Home
SP1.

The problem started when I upgraded my system to Windows XP Professional,
the system crawls for about 10-15 minutes after booting up and only then I
can run any programs. Basically after about first 3-4 minutes I can access
the Start Menu but when I click on any program(s) even explorer or notepad,
it will not run them until approx. 10 minutes. Interestingly there is no
hard drive activity until in the last minutes before I get full control of
the system

I have tried disabling all the services and disabling all the programs in
the starup using msconfig but no luck. I have the latest BIOS for the system
and all the latest updates and patches installed.

After this 15 minutes of lock up system works fine.

I am wondering when I upgraded from Windows XP Home to Pro. may be some
drivers did not get replaced or are not uninstalled and XP Home drivers are
causing conflicts with the Pro. drivers (if there are any difference between
the Home and Pro. drivers).???

I have contacted HP but HP will not help since I have upgraded my system to
Pro and now it is my responsibility...

I will appreciate any input since this is a mystery to me which is unsolved
right now...


Regards,
Victor

 

[Glen]

You say there is no hard drive activity while you are waiting and its when
windows starts you have the problem. I would run hijack this as it logs
everything running on your system. You need to remove everything untill you
only have the most basic system possible. When you remove everything and as
long as the system is now starting properly you can add things back untill
you find the problem. If you cant find the problem you might be better
reformating and starting again. This might be the quickest way to sort the
problem. If it is to do with the upgrade then I would reformat as it might
be hard to track down the actual cause and it will be very time consuming.

Hijackthis
http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/downloads.html

Glen P