Re: Strange login
- From: Chuck <cpinnegar@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 11 May 2008 12:08:06 -0400
On Fri, 09 May 2008 15:01:25 -0700, "Terry R." <F1ComNOSPAM@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
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.
Hi Terry,
Thanx for your heads up on BootVis. It didn't solve my problem but the
entries gave me an idea. I went to device manager and looked at the
entries. Low and behold there was a yellow shield marker next to the
USB devices. Checked them out, seemed ok. Deleted entry, rebooted,
went to device manager again, and now a yellow shield next to Storage.
Well, drives looked ok, but I remembered I'd stuck a mini card in the
card reader eons ago in case I needed it. Well, you can guess what I
found, the card was covered in dust and lint. I'm guessing that the
system tried to read it over and over and . . . so the boot process
took forever. Took it out, stashed it, and now she boots like a
wizzard. The lesson is - don't set up your tower on the rug next to
your feet.
.
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