Extended boot time (after capture card)

[Dax]

I just had some bad luck with a capture card. I installed it, along with the drivers, couldn't capture with 3rd party software (would lock up the PC after ~1 sec of capture), but with the supplied software, the capture would have purple noise everywhere and distorted audio.

Tried getting updated drivers for the SAME card from the website, but apparently the install added more functions like TV tuner remote and so on (this card does not have a TV tuner!)

Anyway, I uninstalled all drivers, and now they don't come up in "Add or Remove Programs," and in "Device Manager."

However, while I was experiencing lockups, I noticed that the time between the XP loading screen and the "welcome" screen has gone up from ~5 sec. to ~40sec! It's just a black screen.

It still does that after removal of the card, and after the drivers got uninstalled. I ran 2 regcleaners, that didn't help. What can I do?

Thanks

 

[folken]

If your machine uses an nforce2 chipset motherboard try reinstalling the chipset drivers. I had something like that happen only it would hang at a black screen right before the windows loading screen. After a few long nights of trying things I found out that the nvidia sw drivers that are part of the chipset driver pack got tweaked somehow. When I uninstalled the sw driver part of the pack the problem was solved instantly and my machine worked better all around. I don't know exactly what the sw drivers do but my machine doesn't care that they are gone and everything works better w/o them.

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[Dax]

Thanks for the input. I'm NOT running on a nforce2 motherboard. The system is quite old, but it does have a Nvidia card, I updated the drivers, nothing improved.

What I meant before, is that I see a black screen for 35 seconds after the windows logo screen disappears, and then after those 35 seconds the blue welcome screen (where I get to pick users) shows up.

Forgot to mention that the PC became slower altogether as well, it's getting annoying.

My printer has this service running called MPservice, I remembered that I experienced the same "slowliness" when I'm printing something. So I disabled the service, and the black screen began to appear for only ~25 sec instead of ~35, and the PC became a little faster. Now, the printer is on the parallel port, do you think the capture card (which is now gone) caused IRQ problems? I don't really like disabling the MPservice as a solution.

There is something going on that I don't see a trace of anywhere. Would Bootvis help pippoint what's loading so long? The damn capture card left it's crap somewhere!

 

[Dax]

UPDATE: no viruses or spyware was found, but found these 3 things that I can't delete (folders) in the registry. "V-stream" is the technology the capture card used, so these entries are related to the capture card ...

<A HREF="http://fire-water.home.comcast.net/1.jpg" target="_new"> Entry 1 </A>
<A HREF="http://fire-water.home.comcast.net/2.jpg" target="_new"> Entry 2 </A>
<A HREF="http://fire-water.home.comcast.net/3.jpg" target="_new"> Entry 3 </A>

 

[Toejam31]

When is the last time you cleaned out the hidden Windows\Prefetch folder? You might have entries for the driver or service associated for the card still loading when the OS starts.

Running MSCONFIG and checking for files loading up at the boot under the Startup tab couldn't hurt, either.

Toey

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[Dax]

I looked in the prefetch folder and didn't see anything related, I guess I should go back and erase everything in it. I'll let you guys know if anything improves.