I installed XP Pro it takes two hours to load Pauleytc 12/27/2008 12:53:01 PM After installing XP Pro to my rebuilt computer it takes two hours to load up the desktop screen. I tried MSCONFIG in the Start/Run box only to get CANNOT FIND. A new mother board installation, new video card, new processor and when XP is installed I get crap. Can anyone help? Oh btw...I just bought new 80gig harddrive because motherboard mfg said it was hard drive failure. Can the XP SP3 disk be bad? TP

Re: I installed XP Pro it takes two hours to load Bobby Johnson <rjohnson[ at ]aol.NOSPAM.com> 12/27/2008 2:59:37 PM You're in the wrong ball park. This forum is for 64-bit Windows and you reference 32-bit Windows. Leave the .64bit. out of the address and you should get to the right ball park. Pauleytc wrote: [Quoted Text] > After installing XP Pro to my rebuilt computer it takes two hours to load up > the desktop screen. I tried MSCONFIG in the Start/Run box only to get CANNOT > FIND. A new mother board installation, new video card, new processor and when > XP is installed I get crap. Can anyone help? Oh btw...I just bought new 80gig > harddrive because motherboard mfg said it was hard drive failure. Can the XP > SP3 disk be bad? > TP

Re: I installed XP Pro it takes two hours to load "philo" <philo[ at ]privacy.net> 12/27/2008 3:05:19 PM "Pauleytc" <Pauleytc[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:DC166B41-327B-44BD-930F-966F45873034[ at ]microsoft.com... [Quoted Text] > After installing XP Pro to my rebuilt computer it takes two hours to load up > the desktop screen. I tried MSCONFIG in the Start/Run box only to get CANNOT > FIND. A new mother board installation, new video card, new processor and when > XP is installed I get crap. Can anyone help? Oh btw...I just bought new 80gig > harddrive because motherboard mfg said it was hard drive failure. Can the XP > SP3 disk be bad? > TP No, but the machine has a serious problem of some sort. Though your machine may not run optimally without the proper chipset drives... that would not cause a 2 hour boot time. I'd reset the mobo to default, confirm you have sufficient RAM and that it's all detected... and if you still have the problem... I'd suspect the motherboard has some type of defect. One thing you can do though would be to try booting from a live Linux cd (Damn Small Linux is just a 50 meg download) If that takes more than 5 minutes to bootup you can at least eliminate the OS and HD as a culprit

Re: I installed XP Pro it takes two hours to load "John Barnes" <jbfoofy[ at ]nomailemail.com> 12/29/2008 1:18:43 AM Try booting in Safe mode and see how long it takes, you can also see if it is hanging on any system driver loading. If that goes normally, you probably have a driver hanging. Try running in low resolution mode, whatever the XP version is, and finally you can remove any unnecessary hardware and see if that speeds it up. Also change 64bit to XP to get the correct group for your posts. "Pauleytc" <Pauleytc[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:DC166B41-327B-44BD-930F-966F45873034[ at ]microsoft.com... [Quoted Text] > After installing XP Pro to my rebuilt computer it takes two hours to load > up > the desktop screen. I tried MSCONFIG in the Start/Run box only to get > CANNOT > FIND. A new mother board installation, new video card, new processor and > when > XP is installed I get crap. Can anyone help? Oh btw...I just bought new > 80gig > harddrive because motherboard mfg said it was hard drive failure. Can the > XP > SP3 disk be bad? > TP