Re: Strange login by Chuck
Chuck
Sun May 11 09:08:06 PDT 2008
On Fri, 09 May 2008 15:01:25 -0700, "Terry R." <F1ComNOSPAM@pobox.com>
wrote:
>The date and time was 5/9/2008 2:37 PM, and on a whim, Chuck pounded out
>on the keyboard:
>
>> Suddenly, my homebuilt winxp home desktop has developed a strange
>> login practice. When i boot up in the morning, nothing happens for
>> about 4 minutes, then away she goes and no more probs. Its got an
>> nforce SLI board loaded with 7800 nvidia cards. IBM Deskstar hard
>> drive that checks out. I've checked the bios and run several tests but
>> no glitches. Device manager says a-ok on drivers. I hadn't loaded any
>> new software and I've checked Zonealarm to make sure there is no
>> problem with the trusted zone. Any ideas?
>
>Hi Chuck,
>
>Have you checked Event Viewer? You might find some clues there. I'm
>sure there are newer utils, but I use BootVIS to diagnose timing issues,
>driver crashes, etc. It has a Driver Delay & Boot Activity feature
>(among others) that monitors things like that.
Hi Terry,
Thanx for your heads up on BootVis. It didn't solve my problem but the
entries gave me an idea. I went to device manager and looked at the
entries. Low and behold there was a yellow shield marker next to the
USB devices. Checked them out, seemed ok. Deleted entry, rebooted,
went to device manager again, and now a yellow shield next to Storage.
Well, drives looked ok, but I remembered I'd stuck a mini card in the
card reader eons ago in case I needed it. Well, you can guess what I
found, the card was covered in dust and lint. I'm guessing that the
system tried to read it over and over and . . . so the boot process
took forever. Took it out, stashed it, and now she boots like a
wizzard. The lesson is - don't set up your tower on the rug next to
your feet.