Hmm, 5 minutes to start up my computer...

[Emagdnim]

After finally getting my computer fixed, i've come across another problem, it takes my computer about 5 minutes to start up. Any one have any idea what the problem can be? Here are my specs

ASUS A8N-SLI SE Motherboard
AMD dual core 4200+ cpu
450w Cooler Master psu
Radeon x1900 xt 512 mb video card
4 gigs xms series corsair ram (4x1gig)
Oh and its a regular hard drive with 300gigs, not sure whether that matters or not

 

[Computer~freak~]

i think it a problem with your processor amd's are known to touch themselfs........lol im just joking about that all.. all i can think off is doing a disk defragment if that dosnt work juss reformat ur harddrive

 

[mscrx]

defrag is always good
in addition I would check for autorun services, software and so on. you can do that in the registry in

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
and
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run

there is always alot of crap to find.

you can also cleanup temp files and temp internet files.
there are tools to do all that very easy!

http://www.mlin.net/StartupCPL.shtml > for cleaning autorun mentioned above

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...6D-8912-4E18-B570-42470E2F3582&displaylang=en
this is to make sure everything is clean when you shut down the computer

well, try it yourself

hope this helps you
mscrx

 

[Samstoned]

try start/run type msconfig
look here for boot options do further searchs for what you have listed there
sa stated above I would maybe do a new format install if this takes to long to fix
when it was (fixed) did you fix or shop
maybe there's spyware on it
spybot search and destroy will help clean you up