Guest AFPilot04 Posted July 1, 2008 Posted July 1, 2008 Re: Windows XP SP2 very slow to boot I am having the same problem. I was using Windows Vista Home Basic, but had too many application compatability issues, so I went back to XP pro. After Service Pack 2, before I even get the windows loading screen, The screen goes all black with a white block loading bar at the bottom. It takes this screen 5-10 minutes to load before I even get the XP pro loading screen. I have tried, defragging, running registry mechanic, made sure all my drivers and windows updates were up to date, and I also formatted my entire hard drive trying to fix this problem. My system specs are as follows: AMD Athlon 64X2 6000 (3.15ghz) Dual Core Processor Asus M2R32 MVP Motherboard 2x ATI Radeon 2900HD Video Cards (Crossfired) 1 320 GB HD with 1 Partition Someone told me before it may be a hardware issue, but I have also tried removing parts I didn't need like the second video card and I still cannot get the black and white loading screen to go away. "John Blight" wrote: > But the problem exists when installing WIndows XP including SP2, not just > applying SP2 following a Windows XP installation. And that was from a > Microsoft-supplied disk. > > "Paul Smith" wrote: > > > "John Blight" <JohnBlight@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message > > news:0C64A048-ED20-4D71-931A-E4C7C234986B@microsoft.com... > > > > > However, I'm amazed that a 'clean' Windows install is so badly organised > > > on > > > the disk that it would cause such boot problems. > > > > Applying Service Pack 2 is pretty dramatic, there's barely a file it doesn't > > change. > > > > -- > > Paul Smith, > > Yeovil, UK. > > Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User. > > http://www.windowsresource.net/ > > > > *Remove 'nospam.' to reply by e-mail* > > > > > >
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