XP Boot-up

[Richard]

After using Windows 98 and having that boot up in a couple
of minutes, why does it take XP a good five minutes to get
to the log-in screen?
I've also installed new graphics and sound cards, but they
were working OK with Windows 98. Is this a general
problem, or can some of the setting be changed?

Cheers

Richard

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

After using Windows 98 and having that boot up in a couple
of minutes, why does it take XP a good five minutes to get
to the log-in screen?
I've also installed new graphics and sound cards, but they
were working OK with Windows 98. Is this a general
problem, or can some of the setting be changed?

Cheers

Richard

This might help:
How to Enable User Environment Debug Logging in Retail Builds of Windows
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=221833

 

[Mike]

You are probably expecting an aging computer that once ran a fairly light
operating system to now cope with a much more modern and heavy OS.. XP
requires way more memory to run well than ever Win 98 would, but then you
would expect that.. XP is far more capable that its predecessor.. look to
upgrading the computer if you want performance.. for the record, I ran Win
98/ME on a PIII 933 with 512mb RAM and it booted in 30 secs or less..

 

[Guest]

I've got an Athlon AMD (I can't remember which one it is
as it's a friends machine) also with 512MB RAM.
It's also got separate sound and graphics cards (both
fairly new) and it's defragged and cleaned reglarly.
Once it's up and running, it's just as fast as it always
was, but it's getting it to boot up that seems to take
forever.

 

[Guest]

It's an Athlon AMD 1100, 512MB RAM and a 40GB hard-drive.
It seems to take ages to get to the log-in screen, bot
once the username and password are entered, it boots up in
less than a minute.
It's getting to the username/password bit that seems to
take forever.

 

[Gerald Thompson]

Check that your L2 cache in the bios is enabled. If
correct, check the CPU bus speed setting. Initially, I had
JP2 in a L4VXA2 P4 motherboard (Celeron 2.66 GHz CPU, 400
MHz FSB) set to 'Auto' - changed it to '533'. When I first
started XP and W2K installs, I first had to disable L1/L2
cache which of course is really slow, and after reboot re-
enabled it - still crashed. Resetting the mobo's bus speed
corrected the problem.
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