Long Delay when starting XP

[ronaldberman]

I've had XP installed over a year on an eMachine with
360K memory. The system has been performing well over
this time. However, recently I've noticed that the
system stalls for over 90 seconds when powering up. I
first see the eMachine logo screen and then several
seconds later I see the Windows logo appear along with
the flashing annimation at the bottom of the screen. The
Windows logo then disappears and the system logon screen
appears after 90 seconds. This delay has begun within
the last month.

I thought that I might have encountered a virus or
perhaps some type of advertising spam program. I have an
antivirus program installed and even executed a program
to look for SPAM. So it would appear that my system is
clean. Therefore, I am at a loss at what might be
causing this delay.

Any suggestion on how to address this is appreciated.


Thank-you.

 

[Ted Zieglar aka \Rocky\]

I hope you mean 360 MB of memory, which probably means that your computer
shares its memory with your video system. In any case, that's not enough
memory to get speedy performance from Windows XP.

"Unexplained computer behavior may be caused by deceptive software"
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=827315

 

[Gerry Cornell]

Make an exact note of the precise text of any error message. Minor
discrepancies can
make it harder to search for information about the error message.

You can access Event Viewer by selecting Start, Administrative Tools, Event
Viewer.
When researching the meaning of the error, information regarding Event ID,
Source
and Description are important.

HOW TO: View and Manage Event Logs in Event Viewer in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;308427&Product=winxp

Part of the Description of the error will include a link, which you should
double click
for further information and you can copy using copy and paste.
http://go.microsoft.com/fw.link/events.asp
(Please note the hyperlink above is for illustration purposes only)

A tip for posting copies of Error Reports! Run Event Viewer and double click
on the
error you want to copy. In the window, which appears is a button resembling
two
pages. Double click the button and close Event Viewer. Now start your
message
(email) and do a paste into the body of the message. This will paste the
info from the
Event Viewer Error Report complete with links into the message. Make sure
this is
the first paste after exiting from Event Viewer.

Links giving some information about specific Error Reports are:

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/support/ee.asp

http://www.eventid.net/search.asp

These links, however, do not contain information about each and every Error
Report.

In Event Viewer there is no facility to print Error Reports. A workaround is
copy and
paste the Error Report into an email, send it to yourself and print off the
copy in your
Inbox or your Sent Items folder.

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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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