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Windows Forum / Windows XP / Setup and Deployment / April 2004XP Boot-up
After using Windows 98 and having that boot up in a couple of minutes, why does it take XP a good five minutes to get to the log-in screen? I've also installed new graphics and sound cards, but they were working OK with Windows 98. Is this a general problem, or can some of the setting be changed? Cheers Richard > After using Windows 98 and having that boot up in a couple > of minutes, why does it take XP a good five minutes to get [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > Richard This might help: How to Enable User Environment Debug Logging in Retail Builds of Windows http://support.microsoft.com/?id=221833 You are probably expecting an aging computer that once ran a fairly light operating system to now cope with a much more modern and heavy OS.. XP requires way more memory to run well than ever Win 98 would, but then you would expect that.. XP is far more capable that its predecessor.. look to upgrading the computer if you want performance.. for the record, I ran Win 98/ME on a PIII 933 with 512mb RAM and it booted in 30 secs or less.. > After using Windows 98 and having that boot up in a couple > of minutes, why does it take XP a good five minutes to get [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > Richard I've got an Athlon AMD (I can't remember which one it is as it's a friends machine) also with 512MB RAM. It's also got separate sound and graphics cards (both fairly new) and it's defragged and cleaned reglarly. Once it's up and running, it's just as fast as it always was, but it's getting it to boot up that seems to take forever. >-----Original Message----- >You are probably expecting an aging computer that once ran a fairly light [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > >. It's an Athlon AMD 1100, 512MB RAM and a 40GB hard-drive. It seems to take ages to get to the log-in screen, bot once the username and password are entered, it boots up in less than a minute. It's getting to the username/password bit that seems to take forever. Check that your L2 cache in the bios is enabled. If correct, check the CPU bus speed setting. Initially, I had JP2 in a L4VXA2 P4 motherboard (Celeron 2.66 GHz CPU, 400 MHz FSB) set to 'Auto' - changed it to '533'. When I first started XP and W2K installs, I first had to disable L1/L2 cache which of course is really slow, and after reboot re- enabled it - still crashed. Resetting the mobo's bus speed corrected the problem. gtjob@yahoo.com http://realcareers.netfirms.com http://realcareers.netfirms.com/mycomputer.html >-----Original Message----- >After using Windows 98 and having that boot up in a couple [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > >. |
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