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a few days ago I formatted my friend his desknote

I installed the drivers, performed updates, ...

everything works just fine

 

except there's something I can't figure out

when you turn on your pc, after a few seconds you get the

windows XP bootscreen with your version: home or pro

and a progressbar

 

but this screen won't go away for about 30 to 40 seconds

while my pc at home deals with that in about 10 sec

 

otherwise the desknote works fine, windows starts up very fast and

I haven't encountered any problems

 

what could be the problem with the bootscreen?

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Might simply be the processing power of the computer. It might not have as much as your own so it would take a little longer. Try 45 minutes for the damn thing to away and start up. <_<

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Yea, what are the specs of both computers?

 

sorry for the late reply...

 

Comp 1:

 

AMD ATHLON XP 2500+

Clockspeed 1,83GHz

448 MB RAM

 

Comp 2:

 

AMD ATHLON 4 2400

Clockspeed 1,79GHz

448 MB RAM

 

but the prob doesn't lie here

cause I also have a slower PC and the bootscreen dissappears after 10 sec

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It must be something you installed that causes the slow boot times. Bad drivers for a device perhaps?

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Get in and scan for spyware. I've fixed computers that had every known piece of which and they were screaming after I got done with them. Might even be a virus. Spyware has an effect even in the boot phase. :|

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It must be something you installed that causes the slow boot times. Bad drivers for a device perhaps?

 

maybe could be, but how can I check which drivers are bad

cause they're all working fine according to windows

 

 

 

Get in and scan for spyware. I've fixed computers that had every known piece of which and they were screaming after I got done with them. Might even be a virus. Spyware has an effect even in the boot phase.

 

yeah I know but after a clean install already spyware?

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I forgot that. Sorry. :rolleyes:

 

I don't know what it could be. It seems rather odd. You might have to reformat again. :|

 

np

 

but here's the thing

I formatted once and I got the hanging thing...

then I formatted again, and it's the same

strange business

someone told me that it's not abnormal to startup after 30 sec....

but to me it's a bit irritating :?

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whats the speed of the hard drives involed. Also if one is a SATA and one is a IDE drive that can make a differnece, so can if it has a 2mb or a 8mb cache

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