help with ultra slow boot

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Craig

After messing something up in safe mode I now get this black screen with a
horizontal bar with vertical lines which slowly turn solid and then my
computer finally boots. It looks like some sort of scan like a virus scan
but I can't seem to find where to disable it. Any help would be greatly
appreciated.

Craig
 
Craig said:
After messing something up in safe mode I now get this black screen
with a
horizontal bar with vertical lines which slowly turn solid and then
my computer finally boots. It looks like some sort of scan like a
virus scan but I can't seem to find where to disable it. Any help
would be greatly appreciated.

Craig
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What did you mess with? Try going into Safe Mode and doing a System
Restore to before you messed with whatever you messed with.

Malke
 
There are no restore points. Only ones that were created after I
re-installed XP . I guess I neglected to mention that.:-(


Craig
 
Craig said:
There are no restore points. Only ones that were created after I
re-installed XP . I guess I neglected to mention that.:-(


Craig
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Yes, giving full information about the problem the *first* time is
generally useful. Well, since I can't see your computer from here and
you don't know what you did, the only things I can suggest (and these
are *just* suggestions, mind you, based on almost no useful information
from you) are 1) uninstall your video card drivers, going back to vga,
and then reinstall the drivers; 2) try sfc /scannow to replace possibly
damaged system files; 3) format the drive, clean install Windows,
reinstall drivers and updates, reinstall programs from cd's, restore
data from backups. Oh, and do try one thing at a time for proper
troubleshooting so you know what works and what doesn't.

Malke
 
Hi Craig

I am having the same problem that you mentioned in this post. I had some trouble do to viruses I think and then tried to restore my computer to an earlier time. During this process, my DSL stopped working and then everything went bad. Eventually it got tot he point where I could not boot up. I managed to install Win XP on my other "D" drive and get some of my most recent files off the "C" drive, but then it died altogether. I decided to see if I could continue to use my "C" drive with a new partition/formating job on it. I installed XP home on it and since then, it owrks, but during boot-up it takes a very long time to boot. It also shows a white dashed line along the bottom of the screen. This dashed line begins to fill in the dashes as it boots. I goes really slow the first half of the dashed line, and then it goes fast. It is as if the drive is bogged down. I can hear the drive "stutter" as it tries to boot up. Once it is up and running, I can find no sign that it is having any problems. I still have Win XP installed on the "D" drive and I cannot seem to get it to even show up on boot. I have no idea how to unistall it now

Did you ever get your system working correctly? If so, what did you do? Anybody have any ideas how to get rid of the other "D" system or solve my dashed line slow boot up problem

Thanks
Jef

----- Craig wrote: ----

After messing something up in safe mode I now get this black screen with
horizontal bar with vertical lines which slowly turn solid and then m
computer finally boots. It looks like some sort of scan like a virus sca
but I can't seem to find where to disable it. Any help would be greatl
appreciated

Crai
 
Potential solution to slow boot

I have had the same problem with the slow boot horizontal bar.
Fortunately I called HP support and they had me increase the virtual memory as described below.
Sometimes the performance options for Windows XP are set incorrectly. To check the performance options settings, follow these steps:

1. Click Start and select My Computer.
2. Click Properties and select the Advanced tab.
3. Click the Performance Options button. The Performance Options window opens.
4. Click the Change button under Virtual memory. The Virtual Memory window opens.
5. Check and ensure that the Maximum registry size options under registry options is four times the size of the Current registry size setting.
6. Check and ensure that the maximum paging file size is over 200 MB but not too large.
7. Click OK. Restart the computer.

As soon as I made this change to maximum virtual page size of 2880MB, it worked! Hope this help others.

Curtis
 
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