Slow Boot

[Jim]

AMD Athlon-64 3200
ASUS A8V
512 DDR
WD 250gb ATA

On POST video appears immediately. Then when beginning the boot
sequence there is a considerable delay before any video appears on the
screen.

Opened the case an blew out the dust, which wasn't very much. Being a
single hard drive confirmed the jumper was set to CS. Even tested with
jumper on Master to which it wouldn't recognize.

Being dual memory cards I selectively removed one at a time, swapped
slots, tried single, no change.

Swapped the power supply for a known good one. Minor improvement.
Experimented with alternative BIOS settings to no avail.

Once the system is up it appears to run fine (not mine so I'm going by
what I've been told).

Any other suggestions?

 

[JAD]

AMD Athlon-64 3200
ASUS A8V
512 DDR
WD 250gb ATA

On POST video appears immediately. Then when beginning the boot
sequence there is a considerable delay before any video appears on the
screen.

Opened the case an blew out the dust, which wasn't very much. Being a
single hard drive confirmed the jumper was set to CS. Even tested with
jumper on Master to which it wouldn't recognize.

WD? lone drive setting is needed

Being dual memory cards I selectively removed one at a time, swapped
slots, tried single, no change.

Swapped the power supply for a known good one. Minor improvement.
Experimented with alternative BIOS settings to no avail.

Once the system is up it appears to run fine (not mine so I'm going by
what I've been told).

Any other suggestions?

SLow boot will not be affected by what you have done:

check the system for unneeded network devices
check for dead network shortcuts
check for mapped drives that are dead links
event manager for driver hiccups