System taking long time to boot

[Guest]

Hi

I am using Windows XP Pro SP2. I don't know why this problem has appeared
all of a sudden but my computer is taking 20-25 minutes (no exagerration) to
boot and when my login screen finally appears it displays a message
"svchost.exe:- An instruction referring to 0xabcdef caused an error at
0x000000" (or something like that). When I enter my login name and password
it takes another 15 minutes to load my desktop and settings (and still the
system has not become responsive).

The taskmanager shows normal system resource consumption and no unneccessary
system processes are running. The startup is empty and all unnneccessary
system services are turned off. The TrendMicro OfficeScan NT antivirus does
not show any signs of a malware.

Meanwhile I checked my event log and found these errors to be reported (the
time details tell me that these errors happen at system startup/boot) but the
catch is that they don't happen everytime I start my computer but only
sometimes. Also no such errors are reported before 3 days (thats when my
computer fell ill). The errors are shown below:

Error IdeChnDr (ID 9):- The device, \Device\Ide\IdeDeviceP0T1L0, did not
respond within the timeout period.

Warning (disk):- An error was detected on device \Device\Harddisk1\D during
a paging operation.

For the first error Microsoft knowledge base has no useful information.

 

[Maincat]

Hi

I am using Windows XP Pro SP2. I don't know why this problem has appeared
all of a sudden but my computer is taking 20-25 minutes (no exagerration)
to
boot and when my login screen finally appears it displays a message
"svchost.exe:- An instruction referring to 0xabcdef caused an error at
0x000000" (or something like that). When I enter my login name and
password
it takes another 15 minutes to load my desktop and settings (and still the
system has not become responsive).

The taskmanager shows normal system resource consumption and no
unneccessary
system processes are running. The startup is empty and all unnneccessary
system services are turned off. The TrendMicro OfficeScan NT antivirus
does
not show any signs of a malware.

Meanwhile I checked my event log and found these errors to be reported
(the
time details tell me that these errors happen at system startup/boot) but
the
catch is that they don't happen everytime I start my computer but only
sometimes. Also no such errors are reported before 3 days (thats when my
computer fell ill). The errors are shown below:

Error IdeChnDr (ID 9):- The device, \Device\Ide\IdeDeviceP0T1L0, did not
respond within the timeout period.

Warning (disk):- An error was detected on device \Device\Harddisk1\D
during
a paging operation.

For the first error Microsoft knowledge base has no useful information.

At a command prompt type chkdsk /f (with a space before the /). Then
reboot. Checkdisk will run and try to fix and problem it finds. Could take
a few minutes to do this.
Please let us know if that improves things for you.

 

[Ron Martell]

Hi

I am using Windows XP Pro SP2. I don't know why this problem has appeared
all of a sudden but my computer is taking 20-25 minutes (no exagerration) to
boot and when my login screen finally appears it displays a message
"svchost.exe:- An instruction referring to 0xabcdef caused an error at
0x000000" (or something like that). When I enter my login name and password
it takes another 15 minutes to load my desktop and settings (and still the
system has not become responsive).

Try using the Windows XP Boot logger:
http://greatis.com/utilities/bootlogxp/

Good luck

Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
--
Microsoft MVP (1997 - 2008)
On-Line Help Computer Service
http://onlinehelp.bc.ca
Syberfix Remote Computer Repair

"Anyone who thinks that they are too small to make a difference
has never been in bed with a mosquito."

 

[Guest]

ran the chkdisk utility but no problems were found. I also defragemented the
drive and updated the ata controoler driver but still the problem persists.