White bar on startup

[Guest]

I have just reformatted my hard drive and reinstalled windows xp home I get a
white bar with segmented bits going across the bottom of the screen when
starting windows any ideas what causes this Thanks

 

[Richard Urban]

It is caused by the operating system booting up. Do you have a problem with
it?

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[Yves Leclerc]

It is "standard"!

It is caused by the operating system booting up. Do you have a problem
with it?

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Richard Urban

aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard

If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

 

[Guest]

Thanks guys I hadnt noticed it before and wondered what I had done wrong
Cheers and thanks

 

[Bruce Chambers]

I have just reformatted my hard drive and reinstalled windows xp home I get a
white bar with segmented bits going across the bottom of the screen when
starting windows any ideas what causes this Thanks

Normal system operation.

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[Andrew Murray]

It is a "progress bar" - part of the system boot procedure.

 

[Guest]

My question is how to get rid of it?
Because that white bar shows up it takes like 5-6 minutes to start up my
computer.
Awhile back for some reason the bar quit showing up and I had quick start up
and quick restarts and now all of a sudden the white bar came back and it's
once again a 5-6 minute start up again.
Thanks for any help.

 

[dobey]

The white bar is just a progress indicator. If you got rid of it you would
be looking at a black screen with no indication of how close XP was to
starting.

 

[Guest]

Does anyone know how to stop this?
I didn't start getting it until I added a second hard drive.
Our other computer has two drives in it and when it starts up we don't have
to wait for the white bar to disappear. So I know it's not necessary to have
it.

 

[Bob I]

Perhaps you didn't install the second drive correctly. Remove it and see
if that corrects the issue. If that fixes it, please review the
procedure used to install the drive paying close attention to the jumper
settings.