Re: HP Pavillion a265c takes 5 minutes from post to desktop

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Anything in the event logs?
Louis

"burningjoe" <burningjoe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hello all...I have a HP Pavillion a265c that takes about 5 minutes from
post
to display the desktop.

here is what the system has got....
HP Pavillion a265c
2.8GHz P4 with HT
512 MB DDR ram
160 GB HD with about 150 GB free
Nvidia Gforce 5200 128 MB DDR Ram
and a ton of other stuff....

I formatted the HD, installed from Scratch WIN XP Pro SP2. There is
NOTHING
else on the system except windows.

I have ensured that all drivers are current including the System Board
BIOS.
I have restored the BIOS to Defaults as well.

So, I power the system on, it goes thru the HP Splash screen...I get the
inital Windows XP splash screen for about 5 seconds and
then....BLANK....for
about 3 minutes and then all of the sudden I am at the Log in screen.

I have reduced Resoltuion on the video to 800x600
I have swapped RAM...
Video Card....
Hard Drive (with freshly installed XP Pro)

but...without fail...this "stall" happens...

After XP installed I did allow it to install all the Windows updates.

Any ideas?

--
burningjoe@xxxxxxxxxxx


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