Strange login

[Chuck]

Suddenly, my homebuilt winxp home desktop has developed a strange
login practice. When i boot up in the morning, nothing happens for
about 4 minutes, then away she goes and no more probs. Its got an
nforce SLI board loaded with 7800 nvidia cards. IBM Deskstar hard
drive that checks out. I've checked the bios and run several tests but
no glitches. Device manager says a-ok on drivers. I hadn't loaded any
new software and I've checked Zonealarm to make sure there is no
problem with the trusted zone. Any ideas?

 

[Terry R.]

The date and time was 5/9/2008 2:37 PM, and on a whim, Chuck pounded out

Suddenly, my homebuilt winxp home desktop has developed a strange
login practice. When i boot up in the morning, nothing happens for
about 4 minutes, then away she goes and no more probs. Its got an
nforce SLI board loaded with 7800 nvidia cards. IBM Deskstar hard
drive that checks out. I've checked the bios and run several tests but
no glitches. Device manager says a-ok on drivers. I hadn't loaded any
new software and I've checked Zonealarm to make sure there is no
problem with the trusted zone. Any ideas?

Hi Chuck,

Have you checked Event Viewer? You might find some clues there. I'm
sure there are newer utils, but I use BootVIS to diagnose timing issues,
driver crashes, etc. It has a Driver Delay & Boot Activity feature
(among others) that monitors things like that.

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[Nonny]

The date and time was 5/9/2008 2:37 PM, and on a whim, Chuck pounded out
on the keyboard:

THAT is a really dumb quote intro.

 

[Terry R.]

The date and time was 5/9/2008 3:20 PM, and on a whim, Nonny pounded out

THAT is a really dumb quote intro.

Funny, intelligent people think it's quite witty. Not counting true.

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[Alan]

No, Terry, I have to agree with Nonny.

It IS pretty annoying. And I'm quite intelligent.

And that you think it's witty ...well, what is there to say?

Alan

 

[Frank Saunders MS-MVP IE,OE/WM]

Suddenly, my homebuilt winxp home desktop has developed a strange
login practice. When i boot up in the morning, nothing happens for
about 4 minutes, then away she goes and no more probs. Its got an
nforce SLI board loaded with 7800 nvidia cards. IBM Deskstar hard
drive that checks out. I've checked the bios and run several tests but
no glitches. Device manager says a-ok on drivers. I hadn't loaded any
new software and I've checked Zonealarm to make sure there is no
problem with the trusted zone. Any ideas?

Do you have any nVidia utilities starting at Startup?

 

[Chuck]

The date and time was 5/9/2008 2:37 PM, and on a whim, Chuck pounded out


Hi Chuck,

Have you checked Event Viewer? You might find some clues there. I'm
sure there are newer utils, but I use BootVIS to diagnose timing issues,
driver crashes, etc. It has a Driver Delay & Boot Activity feature
(among others) that monitors things like that.

Hi Terry,
Thanx for your heads up on BootVis. It didn't solve my problem but the
entries gave me an idea. I went to device manager and looked at the
entries. Low and behold there was a yellow shield marker next to the
USB devices. Checked them out, seemed ok. Deleted entry, rebooted,
went to device manager again, and now a yellow shield next to Storage.
Well, drives looked ok, but I remembered I'd stuck a mini card in the
card reader eons ago in case I needed it. Well, you can guess what I
found, the card was covered in dust and lint. I'm guessing that the
system tried to read it over and over and . . . so the boot process
took forever. Took it out, stashed it, and now she boots like a
wizzard. The lesson is - don't set up your tower on the rug next to
your feet.

 

[Terry R.]

The date and time was 5/9/2008 7:06 PM, and on a whim, Alan pounded out

No, Terry, I have to agree with Nonny.

It IS pretty annoying. And I'm quite intelligent.

And that you think it's witty ...well, what is there to say?

Alan

Wow, two people with useless comments about header lines.

Well Alan, all I can suggest is that you just filter me out if it's too
much for your large brain to contain. But I don't really believe
"intelligent" people comment on things like this...

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[Alan]

Terry, it boggles my mind that anyone can think that header line is amusing.

I'll admit that when I FIRST saw it in some other newsgroups 8 or 9 years
ago, it was kind of amusing.

But it got really boring and unfunny really fast.

Alan

 

[Nonny]

Wow, two people with useless comments about header lines.

Two people with useless comments about a really stupid, dumb, annoying
and useless quote header.

The header is merely a reflection of the poster, I'd guess.