Slow (5 min) booting in safe mode without Networking hhiralph 12/5/2008 2:56:01 AM XP Pro SP2 with all security updates and problem unchanged after updating to SP3. Turn on and use F8 at boot screen to get menu. Select Safe Mode and startup begins. List of start up items flashes and disappears and comes back about 3 times and then sits there for 5 minutes with drive access light on but no disk thrashing noise. At about 5 minutes from beginning the disk begins operating normally and start up completes normally. SP3 installed with no reported errors and rebooting afterwards was normal. Some days later I wanted to boot in safe mode again and again, there was this 5 minute delay. Any ideas what the boot up is waiting for? Befuddled Ralph

Re: Slow (5 min) booting in safe mode without Networking "Gerry" <gerry[ at ]nospam.com> 12/5/2008 11:42:04 PM Ralph You should not install an update to a malfuncting system. What Error and Warning Reports appear in the System and Application logs of Event Viewer for the last two days? You can access Event Viewer by selecting Start, Control Panel, Administrative Tools, and Event Viewer. When researching the meaning of the error, information regarding Event ID, Source and Description are important. HOW TO: View and Manage Event Logs in Event Viewer in Windows XP http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308427/en-us A tip for posting copies of Error Reports! Run Event Viewer and double click on the error you want to copy. In the window, which appears is a button resembling two pages. Click the button and close Event Viewer.Now start your message (email) and do a paste into the body of the message. Make sure this is the first paste after exiting from Event Viewer. -- Hope this helps. Gerry ~~~~ FCA Stourport, England Enquire, plan and execute ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ hhiralph wrote: [Quoted Text] > XP Pro SP2 with all security updates and problem unchanged after > updating to SP3. Turn on and use F8 at boot screen to get menu. > Select Safe Mode and startup begins. List of start up items flashes > and disappears and comes back about 3 times and then sits there for 5 > minutes with drive access light on but no disk thrashing noise. At > about 5 minutes from beginning the disk begins operating normally and > start up completes normally. SP3 installed with no reported errors > and rebooting afterwards was normal. Some days later I wanted to > boot in safe mode again and again, there was this 5 minute delay. Any > ideas what the boot up is waiting for? > > Befuddled Ralph

Re: Slow (5 min) booting in safe mode without Networking hhiralph 12/7/2008 2:36:05 AM "Gerry" wrote: [Quoted Text] > Ralph > > You should not install an update to a malfuncting system. > > What Error and Warning Reports appear in the System and Application logs > of Event Viewer for the last two days? > > You can access Event Viewer by selecting Start, Control Panel, > Administrative Tools, and Event Viewer. When researching the meaning > of the error, information regarding Event ID, Source and Description > are important. > > HOW TO: View and Manage Event Logs in Event Viewer in Windows XP > http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308427/en-us > > A tip for posting copies of Error Reports! Run Event Viewer and double > click on the error you want to copy. In the window, which appears is a > button resembling two pages. Click the button and close Event > Viewer.Now start your message (email) and do a paste into the body of > the message. Make sure this is the first paste after exiting from > Event Viewer. > > -- > > > > Hope this helps. > > Gerry > ~~~~ > FCA > Stourport, England > Enquire, plan and execute > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > > > hhiralph wrote: > > XP Pro SP2 with all security updates and problem unchanged after > > updating to SP3. Turn on and use F8 at boot screen to get menu. > > Select Safe Mode and startup begins. List of start up items flashes > > and disappears and comes back about 3 times and then sits there for 5 > > minutes with drive access light on but no disk thrashing noise. At > > about 5 minutes from beginning the disk begins operating normally and > > start up completes normally. SP3 installed with no reported errors > > and rebooting afterwards was normal. Some days later I wanted to > > boot in safe mode again and again, there was this 5 minute delay. Any > > ideas what the boot up is waiting for? > > > > Befuddled Ralph > > > Gerry, Thank you so much for responding! The event log was a great suggestion. After spending some time with it and trying some different scenarios, I realized that the Event Log startup occurs immediately after the 5 minute delay. I also discovered that Safe Mode with Network does NOT have the 5 min delay! So I'm still wondering what is going on. I wanted to turn on boot logging and try to boot in Safe mode but the menu doesn't accept but one option. Any suggestions? Ralph