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Derek.2
I've recently put together a new system based around a A7N8X Deluxe (rev. 2)
board and Windows XP.
After about a week of working perfectly, the system now takes about two to
three minutes to start or reboot. It makes no difference if it's a warm boot
or a cold boot! The system get as far as Betty Bios telling me that the
"system is now booting from operating system" then it hangs for over two
minutes before XP eventually starts. Because it hangs on the hand-over from
the Bios to the Operating System, I don't know which one is to blaim?
Otherwise it still works fine. A stripey b&w line appears at the very bottom
of the screen just before the OS takes over.
Other specs are:
Hitachi S-ATA Hard Drive (installed using beta Silicon Image drivers)
XP2800 Barton / Two sticks of Crucial PC2700
Antec Sonata Case (using the fan control which slows the case fan)
Mobo Bios updated to rev. C1007
CD/RW on the Primary IDE (set Master) / DVD on the Secondary IDE (set
Master)
GF4 ti 4200
Logitech mx700 USB mouse / MS keyboard
Windows XP SP1 plus all updates
I've tried using System Restore ...no luck
Uninstalling and reinstalling my mobo drivers ...no luck
Rebooting with the case door off ...no luck
Putting the Bios settings back to the default ...no luck
Booting from the XP disk and repairing my XP installation ...still no luck
Any ideas would be great?? ...Derek
board and Windows XP.
After about a week of working perfectly, the system now takes about two to
three minutes to start or reboot. It makes no difference if it's a warm boot
or a cold boot! The system get as far as Betty Bios telling me that the
"system is now booting from operating system" then it hangs for over two
minutes before XP eventually starts. Because it hangs on the hand-over from
the Bios to the Operating System, I don't know which one is to blaim?
Otherwise it still works fine. A stripey b&w line appears at the very bottom
of the screen just before the OS takes over.
Other specs are:
Hitachi S-ATA Hard Drive (installed using beta Silicon Image drivers)
XP2800 Barton / Two sticks of Crucial PC2700
Antec Sonata Case (using the fan control which slows the case fan)
Mobo Bios updated to rev. C1007
CD/RW on the Primary IDE (set Master) / DVD on the Secondary IDE (set
Master)
GF4 ti 4200
Logitech mx700 USB mouse / MS keyboard
Windows XP SP1 plus all updates
I've tried using System Restore ...no luck
Uninstalling and reinstalling my mobo drivers ...no luck
Rebooting with the case door off ...no luck
Putting the Bios settings back to the default ...no luck
Booting from the XP disk and repairing my XP installation ...still no luck
Any ideas would be great?? ...Derek