XP startup hangs for 2 minutes then continues

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Toshiba laptop, win xp sp2, wired to network, has wireless nic - which is
off; when booting, warm or cold, Toshiba splash screen comes up, then Win XP
screen for a few seconds, then screen goes blank/black with just mouse
pointer; sits for a fairly constant 2 minutes then continues to normal
Novell login screen; this just started happening, supposedly no new software
or hardware was added; goes into safe mode fine; have run Spybot and McAfee
with nothing found; Help!

Thanks in advance.

 

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"kbgrunt" <kbgrunt@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Toshiba laptop, win xp sp2, wired to network, has wireless nic - which is
> off; when booting, warm or cold, Toshiba splash screen comes up, then Win
> XP
> screen for a few seconds, then screen goes blank/black with just mouse
> pointer; sits for a fairly constant 2 minutes then continues to normal
> Novell login screen; this just started happening, supposedly no new
> software
> or hardware was added; goes into safe mode fine; have run Spybot and
> McAfee
> with nothing found; Help!
>
> Thanks in advance.

Take a look at http://greatis.com/utilities/bootlogxp/

Free trial available. Came up clean when I tried it.

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I would look at the Novell Client. Older versions of the client took longer
to connect to the server or detect that the server isn't available, thus
adding a wait time that normally wouldn't exist.

"kbgrunt" <kbgrunt@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:117B76C2-6848-40B0-BE27-86EB1B2C3861@microsoft.com...
> Toshiba laptop, win xp sp2, wired to network, has wireless nic - which is
> off; when booting, warm or cold, Toshiba splash screen comes up, then Win
> XP
> screen for a few seconds, then screen goes blank/black with just mouse
> pointer; sits for a fairly constant 2 minutes then continues to normal
> Novell login screen; this just started happening, supposedly no new
> software
> or hardware was added; goes into safe mode fine; have run Spybot and
> McAfee
> with nothing found; Help!
>
> Thanks in advance.

 

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kbgrunt Wrote:
> Toshiba laptop, win xp sp2, wired to network, has wireless nic - which
> is
> off; when booting, warm or cold, Toshiba splash screen comes up, then
> Win XP
> screen for a few seconds, then screen goes blank/black with just mouse
> pointer; sits for a fairly constant 2 minutes then continues to
> normal
> Novell login screen; this just started happening, supposedly no new
> software
> or hardware was added; goes into safe mode fine; have run Spybot and
> McAfee
> with nothing found; Help!
>
> Thanks in advance.

You could also run a disk cleanup and defragment, may help improve your
boot especially if the drive is low on space.


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diskspace - over 75% of disk space is available; will do a defrag
Novell Client- is 4.9sp2 which is only 1 version back; has been working
fine, then just started with the delay; delay still occurs when laptop
disconnected from network.

thanks


"John Tiesi" wrote:

> I would look at the Novell Client. Older versions of the client took longer
> to connect to the server or detect that the server isn't available, thus
> adding a wait time that normally wouldn't exist.
>
> "kbgrunt" <kbgrunt@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:117B76C2-6848-40B0-BE27-86EB1B2C3861@microsoft.com...
> > Toshiba laptop, win xp sp2, wired to network, has wireless nic - which is
> > off; when booting, warm or cold, Toshiba splash screen comes up, then Win
> > XP
> > screen for a few seconds, then screen goes blank/black with just mouse
> > pointer; sits for a fairly constant 2 minutes then continues to normal
> > Novell login screen; this just started happening, supposedly no new
> > software
> > or hardware was added; goes into safe mode fine; have run Spybot and
> > McAfee
> > with nothing found; Help!
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
>
>
>

 

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I've actually had to go as far back as 4.83 SP3 to get things to work right.


"kbgrunt" <kbgrunt@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:117B76C2-6848-40B0-BE27-86EB1B2C3861@microsoft.com...
> Toshiba laptop, win xp sp2, wired to network, has wireless nic - which is
> off; when booting, warm or cold, Toshiba splash screen comes up, then Win
> XP
> screen for a few seconds, then screen goes blank/black with just mouse
> pointer; sits for a fairly constant 2 minutes then continues to normal
> Novell login screen; this just started happening, supposedly no new
> software
> or hardware was added; goes into safe mode fine; have run Spybot and
> McAfee
> with nothing found; Help!
>
> Thanks in advance.