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> Disks go bad quickly in our warm humid sea-air
> environment ... etc., etc., I keep a sealed 'desiccant box'
> for critical stuff.)
Jeepers, Alan! - don't know if we can compete with that <g>
Does the fungus grow on the Motherboard too? (Serious question!)
If so, you might need some serious AV utilities. (Not so serious comment)
My thoughts - when I read your first post - were hardware issues, but needed
to know a little more background. Hell's Bells! What a story!!
> Uninstalling TR and Waveflow editor (my only two audio programs apart from
> WMP) made no difference to enumeration delays on reboot.
No, I *think* we can probably disregard software for the time being.
But the biggest worry seems to be :-
> it pre-dates and was unaffected by:
> - a clean reinstall of WinMe in a new folder after
> a major crash caused by memory failure.
Apart from the alarm bells ringing re: memory failure, not too sure what you
mean by "a new folder" following a "clean install" - so let's ignore the
'memory failure' and 'new folder' aspect for a moment. If the problem's
still there after a clean install, then 'hardware' has to be in the frame of
contenders.
However, another point you mentioned earlier :-
"Problem occurs on bootup - but a reset is always successful."
Are you talking about the very first boot of the day?
Or, a 'cold boot' (i.e. power-down, followed (almost immediately) by a
power-up?
I'm wondering about a 'slow/sluggish' HD spin-up time - a 'reset' usually
keeps the HD running - well not long enough to stop. How far up the BLA list
do these 'delays' occur? When the PC boots 'normally' are the 'delays'
eliminated (vastly reduced)?
BTW - As an 'interesting exercise' <vbg> it might be worth 'Removing' your
audio drivers again and temporally disabling your VIA AC97 Audio Controller
in your BIOS for a couple of days to see how the boot sequence behaves. See
if anything else shows up in BLA.
Whilst you're at it, you could decide which is more interesting, watching
your PC booting up or watching paint dry. Personally, I rate them about the
same <g>
Certainly an odd-ball problem, and I've no real answers at the moment.
Good luck
Mart
"Alan Armstrong" <alan@oyster.net.ck> wrote in message
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> Thank you, Mart. About 40 re-boots later things are a bit better and I am
> a
> bit wiser.
>
>>Has this only started happening since you installed Total Recorder?
> The problem (and original TR) are over a year old so I can't remember, but
> it pre-dates and was unaffected by:
> - the last two TR upgrades.
> - a recent install of VIA Tech's Vinyl Audio Codecs.
> - a clean reinstall of WinMe in a new folder after a major crash caused by
> memory failure.
>
> Uninstalling TR and Waveflow editor (my only two audio programs apart from
> WMP) made no difference to enumeration delays on reboot.
>
> I had no idea Device Manager hides so many listings (including the ones I
> suspected) in Normal Mode and I am amazed how much undocumented stuff you
> MVP's somehow know! I removed all 21 items from Sound, Video and Game
> Controllers and only 13 were reinstalled so I got rid of some deadwood,
> but
> the reinstallation froze a couple of times before everything worked and I
> had a clean Bootlog.
>
> Bootlog.txt has the same number of lines as previously, but fewer audio
> kernel items show enumeration delays which are shorter but still variable,
> which is an improvement. However two early normal reboots (before
> reinstalling TR and WF) hung with the same old symptoms, so the problem
> isn't solved. Since it's only occasional, I think I can live with it until
> a
> major failure tells us with hindsight what's causing it. Might be
> imagination, but I think it might be worse since a recent Windows Update
> to
> Media Player (I have v.9.00.00.3075) whose details I forget.
>
> I am also wondering about hardware or bad archived drivers, and maybe an
> occasional floppy disk read problem is related as I reinstalled the FD
> controller and replaced the drive without much improvement. Disks go bad
> quickly in our warm humid sea-air environment which adds more uncertainty,
> but when several new ones out of a sealed pack won't read I know that
> isn't
> the cause. (CD's grow surface fungus here in only about 6 weeks and air
> conditioning isn't an option as power starts at 25 cents a unit and
> increases with usage to a maximum of 51. I keep a sealed 'desiccant box'
> for
> critical stuff.)
>
> Thank you again - I am lucky to have access to such excellent assistance.
> Any other suggestions you have will be most welcome.
>
> Alan
>
>
>
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