SP2 cause 30min+ bootup time

[Luke Bellamy]

Hi - I rebuild a packard bell imedia p806 with windows XP pro.
As soon as I install sp2 it takes longer than 30 mins to boot up.
It gets past the BIOS checks and gets to the black screen with
the white progress bar (not to any windows blue screens) and sits
there for a damn long time slowly incrementing the progress bar.
I have tried installing sp2 straight after the windows XP install and
then I tried it again when I installed windows XP and then updated
all the chipset drivers etc.

This seems very weird to me and I have done heaps of windows XP
installations with no problems like this.
Any assistance would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Luke

 

[Guest]

You didnt update thru windows update then.After xp installation,update
loads about 30- 50 updates before it gives the option for xp SP2,those
updates have no chipset,or hardware installations in them.Try a diffrent
method...

 

[Steve N.]

Hi - I rebuild a packard bell imedia p806 with windows XP pro.
As soon as I install sp2 it takes longer than 30 mins to boot up.
It gets past the BIOS checks and gets to the black screen with
the white progress bar (not to any windows blue screens) and sits
there for a damn long time slowly incrementing the progress bar.
I have tried installing sp2 straight after the windows XP install and
then I tried it again when I installed windows XP and then updated
all the chipset drivers etc.

This seems very weird to me and I have done heaps of windows XP
installations with no problems like this.
Any assistance would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Luke

I have seen some (although few) hardware that will just not accept an
SP2 update at all or be problematic with it. I would contact the
manufacturer for possible solutions. Perhaps a BIOS update is necessary.

Steve N.

 

[Steve N.]

You didnt update thru windows update then.After xp installation,update
loads about 30- 50 updates before it gives the option for xp SP2,those
updates have no chipset,or hardware installations in them.Try a diffrent
method...

As usual, you are full of it, Andrew E. Give it up, spaz! You don't have
a freaking clue and you just don't get it; the fact is that you do not
know what you are talking about and never do.

Steve N.

 

[Luke Bellamy]

Awesome... thanks Steve.
I was thinking a BIOS update myself. So I did that getting
the right updates from the manufacturers web site. And guess
what! I applied it and everything looked fine during the upgrade
but when I restarted it could not find any hard drives!!!
So I plugged in another working hard drive just to check and it
can't find that either.

As you said... think it's time for a call to the manufacturer support.

Luke