Long boot time (3-5min) unless USB unistalled

[Cy6erpuke]

Hi

I have a problem on a Intel P4 3.4 Ghz Winxp pc. It takes between 3-5min to boot up. It goes fine untill after Winxp screen, blue light goes through twice, then black screen for 2-4 min. Then no welcome screen, just desktop and all works fine. No errors. I had other USB related issues though, and when I uninstalled all USB devices in Device Manager, the system booted up under a minute, showed welcome screen! Of course winXP continued to install USB devices again.... back to very slow boot.

I will try the newest drivers and utils for mobo.... I assume this is USB driver issue. Any other ideas? :hotouch:

 

[Jimbo420]

Do you have a bunch of USB devices plugged in to the comptuer when you are trying to boot?

 

[Cy6erpuke]

I only have a USB mouse installed when I boot up.

 

[Jimbo420]

Have you tried pluggging it into other ports or using a ps2 adaptor so that it isn't plugged into USB?

 

[Cy6erpuke]

I could try that. Do you thing it's the keyboard that is stuffing me around? I was thinking motherboard, USB controller.....

 

[alidabiri]

are you running any anti-virus? specially norton's?
find out from start up what processes run?
start/run
enter: msconfig
click on start up tab
anything that shouldn't be there?
you may also try to disable the following services in control panel / admintools / services:
alerter
clipbook
computer browser
human interface device access
network dde
network dde dsdm
routing and remote access and
indexing service
indexing.

 

[Cy6erpuke]

No internet on this PC, so no anti virus.

I have cleaned up the startup, still the same problem.

I will stop the services you mentioned and try again.