used to be fast boot!!!

[BruceMyers48]

I used to boot up in 45 seconds but now after I did a repair to reload windows It takes 25 seconds to get to the windows is loading and sits there for 1 minute and 45 seconds. I have not changed anything except reload xp prof. with the repair option.I keep my start up programs to a mim. in msconfig and see no other sign of anything else causing this. Does any one have any ideas to what I should look for. Thanks

Antec Full Tower
Thermotake 480W PS
MSI K8N NEO 4 Plat. Motherboard
2Gig Kingston 3200 DDR

EVGA 6800 /256 PCIEX video
Augidy II sound card
Sony DvD Burner
Plexwriter CD/RW Drive
160gig WD SATA 7200rpm HD
Floppy 1.44
AMD 3800X2 64bit CPU
XP Pro SP2
Spydoctor
Counter Spy
PC- Cillian

 

[Jak_Sparra]

not sure why thats happened, but i remember on my old asus mobo, i had an option in the bios for fast boot, it did things like not count the ram from 0 upto 1gig, it just showed the full amount straight away etc...

i want the option on my new gigabyte mobo, but it sucks

 

[BruceMyers48]

Found the problem, I reloaded XP with the repair option. I forgot that my XP was SP1 and it converted my system back to SP1. Once I reinstalled SP2 every thing is back to normal even my 40 second boot time. Thanks Bruce

 

[bugme1]

to fix a slow boot on my old machine, (with about the same specs as yours give or take) i ran dskchk and it booted up a little slower than a fresh install! (due to so many services)

 

[BruceMyers48]

Well being I just built this pc with a 3800 dual core it isn't that old.But as I posted in the last post I found the problem, I reloaded with a repair option and my sp2 update was converted back to sp1 because my xp cd was of that version. Thanks for the reply. Bruce