XP Home slow boot.

[Patrick Casher]

Seems to be 30% slower than ME. Had problems and had to reload XP a couple
of times. Wondering if I'm running in slow mode for some reason like when
you don't register right away. Still have ME on D drive so able to boot up
on it changing cmos boot drive. Any ideas would be appreciated. Thanks in
advance.

 

[Patrick Casher]

PS; Wanted to try that Bootvis program but seems it's no longer available.

 

[Malke]

Seems to be 30% slower than ME. Had problems and had to reload XP a
couple of times. Wondering if I'm running in slow mode for some reason
like when
you don't register right away. Still have ME on D drive so able to
boot up
on it changing cmos boot drive. Any ideas would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance.

You didn't tell us anything about your machine. I'm assuming from the
wording of this post that you upgraded this computer from ME to XP. If
that assumption is correct, post back with your machine specifications.
XP requires beefier hardware specs than the older Win9x/ME operating
systems. I wouldn't run XP on a machine with less than a PIII 600
(although it can be done) with less than 256MB of RAM - 512MB of RAM is
much better.

So, if you had a nicely working ME system on older hardware with 128MB
of RAM, it probably runs like a dog with XP. This is a case of forcing
the computer to run an OS for which it was not designed.

Additionally, we don't know your software environment. Perhaps you have
too much stuff starting with Windows and your hardware-challenged
computer can't handle it. Here are some links to help with that aspect:

http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/slowcom.htm
http://aumha.org/a/health.htm - Take Out the Trash (section 4)

If you'd like more focused help, then please post back with more
details.

Malke

 

[S.Sengupta]

'How to troubleshoot by using the System Configuration utility in
Windows XP'
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;310560

Regarding Bootvis:-
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http://windowsxp.mvps.org/utils/BootVis.zip

Re:-http://windowsxp.mvps.org/

regards,
ssg MS-MVP

 

[Patrick Casher]

Thanks for the quick reply. I'm running a PIII 1gig proc. with 256meg 133
SDram. Maybe more ram would help. Plus I don't know the status of the 30gig
hd I'm running for XP the ME hd is 60 gig ATA 100. I run adaware, spybot,
and Microsoft's new anti-spyware programs and AVG anti virus. I ran defrag
and haven't been running long enough to clean up many files. I'll check
into the hd if it's an ATA 66 maybe it's the culprit.

 

[Alias]

Thanks for the quick reply. I'm running a PIII 1gig proc. with 256meg 133
SDram. Maybe more ram would help. Plus I don't know the status of the
30gig
hd I'm running for XP the ME hd is 60 gig ATA 100. I run adaware, spybot,
and Microsoft's new anti-spyware programs and AVG anti virus. I ran
defrag
and haven't been running long enough to clean up many files. I'll check
into the hd if it's an ATA 66 maybe it's the culprit.

256 Ram isn't enough. Put at least 384, preferably 512 and, yes, check to
make sure you don't have an ancient HD.

Alias

 

[Rock]

Seems to be 30% slower than ME. Had problems and had to reload XP a couple
of times. Wondering if I'm running in slow mode for some reason like when
you don't register right away. Still have ME on D drive so able to boot up
on it changing cmos boot drive. Any ideas would be appreciated. Thanks in
advance.

You say 30% slower, but how much time does it take to boot?

 

[Patrick Casher]

I was timing a reboot from the restart command (Clicking on start, turn off
computer, then restart, to the time I was up online ready to access the
internet. ME is approximately 1 min. 53 sec. XP is approximately 3 min. 5
sec. I've got AVG, Zone Alarm, Identafon, AIM, Windows msgr, Yahoo msgr
running on both OS's.

 

[Patrick Casher]

I checked out the Quantum hd it's a 30gig AT Fireball lct 15. I had it from
when I upgraded my series 1 Tivo to 120gig. The specs say it is an ata 66
with only 512k buffer. Guess it's time to ghost over the ME OS on the
Maxtor 60gig ATA 100 with 4meg cache and take some more time checks on the
reboot.

I was timing a reboot from the restart command (Clicking on start, turn
off
computer, then restart, to the time I was up online ready to access the
internet. ME is approximately 1 min. 53 sec. XP is approximately 3 min. 5
sec. I've got AVG, Zone Alarm, Identafon, AIM, Windows msgr, Yahoo msgr
running on both OS's.

 

[Patrick Casher]

I ghosted it over to the 60 gig but now I'm getting error "Generic Host
Process for Win32 services has encountered a problem and needs to close."
It sends Microsoft an error report then seems to run normal. Is there
something I can do? Maybe it's time to start from scratch and format and
reload. I used this ghost (2002) upgrading both my sons harddrives to
40gig's no problem, this one is a 60gig.

I checked out the Quantum hd it's a 30gig AT Fireball lct 15. I had it
from
when I upgraded my series 1 Tivo to 120gig. The specs say it is an ata 66
with only 512k buffer. Guess it's time to ghost over the ME OS on the
Maxtor 60gig ATA 100 with 4meg cache and take some more time checks on the
reboot.

 

[Patrick Casher]

Spoke too soon. That error was occurring when booting up on ghosted drive
with cmos change and being in "D" position. Moved it to C and now boots ok.
Looks like I gained all of 15 seconds after switching. Maybe it's the best
I can do with this hardware. Maybe I'll live with it for now. Thanks for
the input.

 

[Patrick Casher]

Checked the hd properties under My Computer and found C drive as 30gig and D
60 even though booted from 60gig as primary in cmos. Re ghosted and removed
30gig . Then boot ok. Reboot now 1 min. 48 sec., 5 sec. better than ME and
58% better with 60gig than 30.

 

[Rock]

Checked the hd properties under My Computer and found C drive as 30gig and D
60 even though booted from 60gig as primary in cmos. Re ghosted and removed
30gig . Then boot ok. Reboot now 1 min. 48 sec., 5 sec. better than ME and
58% better with 60gig than 30.

Have you also done some clean boot troubleshooting as S. Sengupta
suggested early in this thread?

How to Troubleshoot By Using the Msconfig Utility in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=310560

How to perform advanced clean-boot troubleshooting in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=316434