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draxssab   07-12-2008 at 04:56:28 AM

I don't know if my post is at the good place, but i could not find better...

Since some weeks, my booting time (from pushing POWER to the profile selection screen in XP) is damn long! But after clicking on my profile, my desktop shows up instantanly, and everything (programs, games, navigation...) seems to works well and fast. Before, my PC was booting in a matter of seconds from POWER to desktop... what could happened?

My PC only has a couple of months. Her's my config :

OS = XP
Mobo = MSI K9A2 Platinum
CPU = AMD 5000+ Black Ed.
Ram = DDR2 OCZ Reaper HPC 800 2x 1Gig
HDD = W.D Caviar 250G 16
Video = HIS Radeon HD 3870 IceQ 3
and a "part homemade" water cooling

I am on the most recent drivers for my Mobo, and Yes, i overclocked, and I also tried to lower my frequencies (even if it sound a bit strange) but no change. Can someone know what could go wrong?

Thanx

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draxssab   07-12-2008 at 06:02:54 AM
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Ok, here my detailed booting sequence :

POWER

Black screen (with beeping sound) = 8 sec

MSI Splash (with "press Del to enter Bios..." ) = 27 sec

Black screen = 12 sec

Windows loading screen = 12 sec

LONG Black screen = 1 min 3 sec!!

Finally my profile selection screen! for a total waiting time of 2 min 2 sec of booting time...

As we can see, the longest waiting is where it was shorter before... the MSI splash was normaly showing for MAX 1 sec (it was hard to press DEL at the right time to get to BIOS :P ). And my profile selection was normaly showing immediately after the loading screen

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caskachan   07-13-2008 at 11:10:01 PM
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Mhh i would like to take a look at your startup services and files.. probably a virus/malware or just windows gone wrong

i fyou havent checked for virues with DR web cure it, or nod32 or kaspersky, give them a try, get tha tposibility out of the way

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draxssab   07-14-2008 at 02:15:19 PM
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I've performed 2 full scan with nod 32, whitout finding anything. I also performed a Spyware terminator full scan.

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sturm   07-18-2008 at 01:41:28 PM
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Your bios post screen is taking too long. Go in and make sure its not trying to detect a hard drive or cd-rom that is not present. You can change the bios to do a full POST instead of a quick one. This will allow you to see what its doing and where its hanging. You can change it back to quick post when done.
Run MSCONFIG from the run and uncheck all startup files and reboot to see if that helps. Just make sure to recheck the ones you need like AV and firewall.

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gomerpile   07-18-2008 at 02:16:26 PM
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draxssab wrote :

I don't know if my post is at the good place, but i could not find better...

Since some weeks, my booting time (from pushing POWER to the profile selection screen in XP) is damn long! But after clicking on my profile, my desktop shows up instantanly, and everything (programs, games, navigation...) seems to works well and fast. Before, my PC was booting in a matter of seconds from POWER to desktop... what could happened?

My PC only has a couple of months. Her's my config :

OS = XP
Mobo = MSI K9A2 Platinum
CPU = AMD 5000+ Black Ed.
Ram = DDR2 OCZ Reaper HPC 800 2x 1Gig
HDD = W.D Caviar 250G 16
Video = HIS Radeon HD 3870 IceQ 3
and a "part homemade" water cooling

I am on the most recent drivers for my Mobo, and Yes, i overclocked, and I also tried to lower my frequencies (even if it sound a bit strange) but no change. Can someone know what could go wrong?

Thanx


copy and paste this text into note pad save with a name of whatever.reg


Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop]
"AutoEndTasks"="1"
"HungAppTimeout"="1000"
"WaitToKillAppTimeout"="2000"
"MenuShowDelay"="200"if you change the menushowdelay to 0 this means spontaneous.
When saved you will right click and merge or you can manually put what you want it.
I have a few more for start up times. Maybe there is something in prefetch (C:\WINDOWS\Prefetch). Delete the files, this will cause a first time load to be a little slower but safe to do, and should be done 1 or 2 a month, myself i use a script to delete on shut down. (not recommanded) unless you have start up scripts for services you want loaded.
What I'd do is this, download wireshark and run a check if any IP are coming in using udp ports I leading towards, this may be a embedded code in winstock if all the sudden tis happened

Here is a situation just last night playing my fav game, I noticed how my ping went up like 150 ms and after running wireshark I found 2 IP using a tcp connect, that just should not be, so I know an admin or someone who has admin rights was hacking so I trapped the IP in there spots. If not for wireshark I would have never known about who was trying to connect, they did not get far before their system crashed.
I know the system crashed because, when I used a tool I usually use, the game server also crashed. I Know because the game was running on the second computer and all the sudden when I run my little FCK-You tool the game on that server crashed. Hmm I say
I'm still going to contact the admin and their service provider about the attemp


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