5+ minutes boot time

[Sir Benjamin Nunn]

I've been running Vista Ultimate since December without too many major
problems.

In the last couple of weeks, I've noticed that on one of my machines the OS
now takes about 5 minutes to boot (was previously 15-20 seconds).

There's 5 minutes of black screen after the boot options and before the
Copyright screen with the green bars appears, and from then on it's as
normal.

When I try booting in Safe Mode, the last driver to load successfully at
normal speed is ataport.sys and then comes the 5 minute wait, then it
continues.

I religiously keep up to date with Windows Update, and I'm fairly sure this
only started after installing a recent update, possibly my SATA controller.

Any ideas? This is very inconvenient. TIA.

BTN

 

[Guest]

Would this machine happen to be either an IBM or a Lenovo? If so, there are
known Vista boot issues (and 2 hotfixes) for these.

Stuart.

 

[Sir Benjamin Nunn]

Would this machine happen to be either an IBM or a Lenovo? If so, there
are
known Vista boot issues (and 2 hotfixes) for these.

It's neither. I built the machine in question myself. Asus P5GD2, P4 550, WD
HDD, Crucial RAM, ATI x1650, Audigy 2ex.

Be willing to try the hotfixes though, as I guess it's possible I'm using a
component somewhere that also features in the machines you mentioned.

BTN