Fresh WinXP starts up extremely slow

Greetings,

Oover the past couple of days, we built a small private network for a
customer here that needs Windows XP installed on all machines. The
configuration for these machines is the same for each, and can be found at
the bottom of this document. For testing purposes, I installed Windows 2000
on them first. Everything ran fine.

Afterwards, I launched the Windows XP installation, formatted the drive and
on it went with installing. After the installation, starting up the computer
literally takes 10 minutes. Finally having started, the dialog appears
"Windows will now adjust your resolution", however, the background is
entirely back. If you reboot 5 times, you might just be lucky enough to see
the actual desktop. If that happens, performing any action takes way too long
- it took me 5 minutes to enter the device manager.

This is obviously a huge problem, and it occurs on every single machine.
Since Windows 2000 worked fine, I don't think it's a hardware problem. All
Windows XP cds have been purchased and are brand new licences. My personal
guess was Windows XP messes something up while formatting the harddisk, but
after repartitioning using FDisk, the same problem existed. I used 2
different installation CD's and removed the computers from the network prior
to installing. I also tried removing all PCI cards and switching the
flatcables. If anyone has some other advice, I'd really appreciate it, I'm
running out of ideas here. I have several spare hardware components, but
since every installation takes a good 40 minutes, I'd like some input before
I randomly start replacing things.

Thanks in advance :),

CJ (Bluenet)

Computer specifications:
Asus P4U800-X mainboard
Intel P4 3.0 Ghz Processor
512 MB DDR-SD Ram (Dane)
Asus Geforce FX 5200
40GB Maxtor harddisk (to be partitioned with a 5 GB primary partition for
Windows)
2x 3Com Network card
1x Multi I/O card (1 COM port)
1x Sweex Multi I/O card (2 COM ports)



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