New MB and CPU, slow booting

[Amonte]

Well my previous post... got a new MB, CPU, and RAM.. wouldn't startup. Got a complete replacement, it works now.. must have been a bad MB, since my AGP card got fried.. I am using a second backup vid card now.


P4 3.0ghz, MSI PT880 neo MB, 512mb PC3200 DDR.

The problem(s):

First problem... it didn't recognize the os, kept on giving me the blue screen of death. Fine, I put in the XP CD and "repaired XP" basically a new install...

Boot up is slooooow... it takes even 20-30 secs for it to completely post. I thought maybe a wire was off, but I went through it, and there basically isn't anything to mis-wire.

Windows loadup is like 3 minutes now.. omg.

I finally updated to service pack 1, 2.. and no more driver conflicts.

It's still slow as dirt to startup... but benchmark tests say the CPU is blazing fast. Now why is it running / booting up so slow? Any ideas?

I am not running anything raid, scsi, or sata. Bootup recognizes everything, no driver conflicts/errors in windows.

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[xeenrecoil]

When you installed the new motherboard did you blow away the XP installation for the old computer core assuming you had one, i guess i need more details here...

 

[Coyote]

Right.

If you just put you (old) harddrive in there it has the chipset drivers from the previous mobo. That's not gonna work too well.

Just a guess, but when using a WD harddrive you must remove the jumper if it's on an IDE channel by itself. I mention it because it comes so often on those "my system is slow"
posts
More info needed as said above.

Mobile XP 2600+ (11X200)
Abit NF7-S v 2.0
Maxtor 60GB ATA 133 7200RPM
512MB Corsair Twinx 3200LL
BBA 9800 Pro
Enermax Noisetaker 420 watts
Win98SE

 

[Amonte]

I didn't want to format the new HDD.. so I ended up "repairing" the XP system and it's working.. just booting incredibly slow.

Unfortunately I have a lot of programs etc that I can't ghost it onto another drive ( the first faulty MB fried my 40gb hdd and my video card).

I will try to remove the pin for the HDD to see what happens if I put it on cable select. I was wondering if there was a good way to eliminate the old MB drivers etc, since when I put in the new XP installation it was needing new drivers for absolutely everything, I thought it was re-writing over the needed stuff.

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[xeenrecoil]

heya amonte;

Just so you know for next time, it is possible to do the mobo swap without having to reinstall but you have to load windows default chipset and storage drivers, THEN shutdown the computer and swap the mobo, then it will come up on the default drivers and should have no trouble accepting the chipset and storage drivers for the new mobo. Its time to start thinking about buying an External Firewire/USB combo hard drive, buy the enclosure and hard drive seperately, and put it together, it can be done for very cheap, one word of advice be carefull which enclosure you buy some of them have very weak power supplies and flat out wont power a 7200RPM drive. An external hard drive is EXTREMELY handy you can back up any data on demand.

 

[Amonte]

Sounds good.. I totally appreciate the advice!

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[jammydodger]

It is important to note that the CPU has very little (if any) impact on booting speed these days. Boot times are dependant mainly on the motherboard, BIOS and (when loading windows) the hard drive.

With a lot of new motherboards there is an option for 'quick boot' this can improve boot times a lot. Also if your motherboard comes with on board RAID, anything based on intels ICH5R does, this should be dissabled (unless you are using it!).