ASUS A8V Deluxe Slow Boot

[unsaid25]

I just recently purchased the ASUS A8V Deluxe with Wireless
motherboard and the Athlon64 3500+ Processor. It appears to take an
unusual amount of time to boot.

I get to the beginning Windows XP Pro with Scroll Bar on the bottom.
Then it goes black for approximately 1 1/2 minutes before showing the
welcome screen. Once I booted up everything appears to be flying
(any good software to test hardware other than 3d BenchMark).

My Specs are the following :

ASUS A8V Delux w/ WiFI
AMD Athlon 64 3500+
Antec TruePower 430w
Western Digital 120gb 8mb Cache HD
Western Digital 200gb 8mb Cache HD
1gb Kingston HyperX Memory
ATI Radeon x800 Pro 256mb DDR Memory
Plextor 8x DVD+R-R R/W
Windows XP Professional Clean Install
All Drivers installed from the CD

Any ideas?

You can email me at (e-mail address removed) if you have any ideas.

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[Frank]

I get to the beginning Windows XP Pro with Scroll Bar on the bottom.

Then it goes black for approximately 1 1/2 minutes before showing the
welcome screen. Once I booted up everything appears to be flying
(any good software to test hardware other than 3d BenchMark).

Did you set a static IP for the network controllers? Windows usually takes
some break when set to get an automatic IP. It waits about for 30 sec to get
it from the DHCP server, when there is none it wait.

Try to set it to a private adress range in the settings like 192.168.0.1
(the 1 is free, you can set it to any value) and so on submask is
255.255.255.0 rest is blank.

That should be it.

Frank

 

[Tony DiMarzio]

Quite the confident one aren't ya?

It's probably not stalling windows load while waiting for a DHCP response.

My first guess would be to disable the SATA and Promise controllers from
within the BIOS since you aren't using them.