Windows Xp & freezing

[Dj Toonz]

Hi all i'm running windows xp home on a dual p4 3.8gig with 2gig of ram , x
2 400gig sata hard drives in raid 0 mode with x2 7800 512meg nvidia graphic
cards in SLI mode and a netgear wireless adsl router but what my problem is
everytime i boot the machine up it freezes for about a couple of minutes
before my desktop comes up on screen , all i've got running on start-up is
the speaker icon and norton internet security i've scanned the machine for
spyware with microsoft defender & search & destrory and they have found
nothing, someone said 2 me once that it could be my router that's the
problem something to do with the dchp , but i dont use dchp to connect to
the internet i've got a static ip address, it's been like this for a few
day's now, i've even been thinking about going back to windows 98se and
see'ing if it still does it on that , has anybody got any idea's why Win xp
is freezing on startup as i'm stumped as what's causing it
Thank's in Advance

Lee

 

[Guest]

"All you have running on start up is the speaker icon and norton"...Try
opening
task mgr,you'll probably see 30-40 services running at start up.As for "going
back to 98" if youve upgraded to home from 98 you ought to spend some time
learning a computers OS.98 uses FAT32,xp uses ntfs file system.Youre RAID
configuration,nvidia drivers,etc wont be useing the default xp drivers with
FAT32.
You ought to reinstall xp,this time do a clean installation w/o 98
involved,the
whole system will run 100% better.