Tom's Hardware > Forum > Windows XP > Windows XP General Discussion > XP takes 8 minutes to probe devices and boot

XP takes 8 minutes to probe devices and boot

Forum Windows XP : Windows XP General Discussion - XP takes 8 minutes to probe devices and boot

Tom's Hardware: Over 1.4 million members in 6 different countries available to answer all your high-tech questions. Sign up now! Its free!
Ask the community Add a reply
Word :    Username :           
 
clafournaise   04-23-2009 at 02:22:40 AM

Shuttle SG31G2, 4GB RAM, Q8200, WD EADS "GP"

This computer ran Vista successfully for over a year. I reformatted the drive and tried to install XP.

The XP install took over 24 hours. It paused at 34 minutes probing devices. After some troubleshooting, I finally just let it be and it finished up the next day (!).

This happened with both XP and XP/64. I ended up with XP/64. Vista does not have this behavior. I tried pulling all removable devices and disabling everything in the BIOS with no effect.

So, fine, the OS is installed now and when it's up, it's very fast.

But XP now takes 8 minutes to boot up, I assume in probing devices. When I run it with the /SOS option, I can see the device drivers load, then it stops at this screen for 8 minutes:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3497/3467161660_8a1b41e234.jpg?v=0

The next step after the 8 minutes is chkdsk. I verified this by running chkdsk /f and rebooting.

Any ideas what's going on or how I debug this?

Add a reply
Sponsored Links
Register or log in to remove.
Anonymous   08-22-2009 at 04:54:25 PM
- 0 +

I had same issue. It was an external drive that was hanging my boot. turnd it off, rebooted and went right into windows. Turned drive back on and all is well. Hope this helps.

Mark Douglas

Reply to Anonymous
Ask the community Add a reply
Tom's Hardware > Forum > Windows XP > Windows XP General Discussion > XP takes 8 minutes to probe devices and boot
Go to:

There are 825 identified and unidentified users. To see the list of identified users, Click here.

Forum map
Bestofmedia Forum ©
2000-2009 Bestofmedia Group
Page generated in 0.479 seconds
Sponsored links
  • Ask the community now
  • Publish
Ad
Related Topics
See all relatives topics
They won a badge
Join us in greeting them
  • 01:00 demondrumer won the Freshman badge
  • 01:00 tehue won the Freshman badge
  • 12:11 mi1ez won the Watchman badge
  • 01:00 sighQ2 won the Freshman badge
  • 09:06 ulysses35 won the CPUs badge
  • 01:00 fleeb won the Freshman badge
  • 01:00 jaymoney61 won the Freshman badge
  • 07:06 amdfangirl won the Watchman badge
  • 01:00 benw won the Freshman badge
  • 01:00 anmjoven won the Freshman badge