15-20 Minute Delay Starting up XP 64

Hi

I have a problem in that my system is waiting for about 15-20 minutes each
time I have to restart. The problem occurs between windows load screen (with
green scroll bar) and switching to the blue logon screen. The problem
started to occur after my system crashed once. I had a similar problem with
the x64 trial version too. If I start in safe mode it seems to pause on the
file "c:\windows\system32\apcitabl.dat"

Has anyone else experienced this or know someway to correct it?

Thanks John

Tony
Tue Aug 29 16:27:08 CDT 2006

Since you are aware of the event that is a likely cause, have a look in
Event Viewer and see if you have any reported Errors or Warnings. They will
often be flagged with a number that is doubling as a link that you can click
and that sometimes takes you to valuable information and sometimes not. Or
you can report them back here, it helps smoke out the people that have
required knowledge.

Tony. . .


"John" <John@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:B378EF93-819A-4A74-B246-834B9BEF963F@microsoft.com...
> Hi
>
> I have a problem in that my system is waiting for about 15-20 minutes each
> time I have to restart. The problem occurs between windows load screen
(with
> green scroll bar) and switching to the blue logon screen. The problem
> started to occur after my system crashed once. I had a similar problem
with
> the x64 trial version too. If I start in safe mode it seems to pause on
the
> file "c:\windows\system32\apcitabl.dat"
>
> Has anyone else experienced this or know someway to correct it?
>
> Thanks John

Carlos
Tue Aug 29 17:15:02 CDT 2006

John:
I just made a google search for "acpitabl.dat problem boot time crash" and
found 75 hits.
Root causes vary so you might just well see which one fits you.
Carlos
P.S.: it is acpitabl.dat, not apcitabl.dat :-)

"John" wrote:

> Hi
>
> I have a problem in that my system is waiting for about 15-20 minutes each
> time I have to restart. The problem occurs between windows load screen (with
> green scroll bar) and switching to the blue logon screen. The problem
> started to occur after my system crashed once. I had a similar problem with
> the x64 trial version too. If I start in safe mode it seems to pause on the
> file "c:\windows\system32\apcitabl.dat"
>
> Has anyone else experienced this or know someway to correct it?
>
> Thanks John