Re: Strange login

Tech-Archive recommends: Fix windows errors by optimizing your registry

The date and time was 5/9/2008 2:37 PM, and on a whim, Chuck pounded out on the keyboard:

Suddenly, my homebuilt winxp home desktop has developed a strange
login practice. When i boot up in the morning, nothing happens for
about 4 minutes, then away she goes and no more probs. Its got an
nforce SLI board loaded with 7800 nvidia cards. IBM Deskstar hard
drive that checks out. I've checked the bios and run several tests but
no glitches. Device manager says a-ok on drivers. I hadn't loaded any
new software and I've checked Zonealarm to make sure there is no
problem with the trusted zone. Any ideas?

Hi Chuck,

Have you checked Event Viewer? You might find some clues there. I'm sure there are newer utils, but I use BootVIS to diagnose timing issues, driver crashes, etc. It has a Driver Delay & Boot Activity feature (among others) that monitors things like that.

--
Terry R.

***Reply Note***
Anti-spam measures are included in my email address.
Delete NOSPAM from the email address after clicking Reply.
.

Relevant Pages

  • Re: Windows 2000 pro only hangs on re-start
    ... boot if I had legacy USB disabled. ... - Go to device manager and uninstall any keyboard(s) listed in the keyboard ... properties of what's underneath - then update driver and choose to select the ...
    (microsoft.public.win2000.general)
  • Re: No mouse driver for DOS in Windows XP?
    ... The date and time was 5/12/2008 1:51 PM, and on a whim, Bill in Co. pounded out on the keyboard: ... DOS to me, not some stripped-down XP idea of MS-DOS without a mouse ... why I was surprised to find no mouse driver. ... boot disk creator, and will be careful about using XP to create any ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.general)
  • Re: locked out of login
    ... most drivers get disabled in Safe Mode, ... but not the essential drivers as keyboard & mouse drivers. ... driver is probably corrupted and has limited function only. ... The Ultimate Boot CD for Windows in ISO file ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.general)
  • Re: locked out of login
    ... most drivers get disabled in Safe Mode, ... but not the essential drivers as keyboard & mouse drivers. ... driver is probably corrupted and has limited function only. ... The Ultimate Boot CD for Windows in ISO file ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.general)
  • Re: soundcard SoundBlaster PCI128 or SoundBlaster live1024 problem
    ... > What messages are you getting from boot log and dmesg? ... ACPI tables contain no PCI IRQ routing entries ... RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 64000K size 1024 blocksize ... USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v2.2 ...
    (comp.os.linux.hardware)