Strange login

[Guest Chuck]

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?

[Guest Terry R.]

Re: Strange login

 

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.

 

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[Guest Nonny]

Re: Strange login

 

On Fri, 09 May 2008 15:01:25 -0700, "Terry R." <F1ComNOSPAM@pobox.com>

wrote:

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

>on the keyboard:

 

THAT is a really dumb quote intro.

[Guest Terry R.]

Re: Strange login

 

The date and time was 5/9/2008 3:20 PM, and on a whim, Nonny pounded out

on the keyboard:

> On Fri, 09 May 2008 15:01:25 -0700, "Terry R." <F1ComNOSPAM@pobox.com>

> wrote:

>

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

>> on the keyboard:

>

> THAT is a really dumb quote intro.

 

Funny, intelligent people think it's quite witty. Not counting true.

 

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[Guest Alan]

Re: Strange login

 

No, Terry, I have to agree with Nonny.

 

It IS pretty annoying. And I'm quite intelligent.

 

And that you think it's witty ...well, what is there to say?

 

Alan

 

"Terry R." <F1ComNOSPAM@pobox.com> wrote in message

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> The date and time was 5/9/2008 3:20 PM, and on a whim, Nonny pounded out

> on the keyboard:

>

>> On Fri, 09 May 2008 15:01:25 -0700, "Terry R." <F1ComNOSPAM@pobox.com>

>> wrote:

>>

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

>>> on the keyboard:

>>

>> THAT is a really dumb quote intro.

>

> Funny, intelligent people think it's quite witty. Not counting true.

>

> --

> Terry R.

>

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[Guest Frank Saunders MS-MVP IE,OE/WM]

Re: Strange login

 

"Chuck" <cpinnegar@cogeco.ca> wrote in message

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> 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?

 

Do you have any nVidia utilities starting at Startup?

 

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[Guest Chuck]

Re: Strange login

 

On Fri, 09 May 2008 15:01:25 -0700, "Terry R." <F1ComNOSPAM@pobox.com>

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.

[Guest Terry R.]

Re: Strange login

 

The date and time was 5/9/2008 7:06 PM, and on a whim, Alan pounded out

on the keyboard:

> No, Terry, I have to agree with Nonny.

>

> It IS pretty annoying. And I'm quite intelligent.

>

> And that you think it's witty ...well, what is there to say?

>

> Alan

>

> "Terry R." <F1ComNOSPAM@pobox.com> wrote in message

> news:ebxDa5isIHA.4912@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...

>> The date and time was 5/9/2008 3:20 PM, and on a whim, Nonny pounded out

>> on the keyboard:

>>

>>> On Fri, 09 May 2008 15:01:25 -0700, "Terry R." <F1ComNOSPAM@pobox.com>

>>> wrote:

>>>

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

>>>> on the keyboard:

>>> THAT is a really dumb quote intro.

>> Funny, intelligent people think it's quite witty. Not counting true.

>>

>

 

Wow, two people with useless comments about header lines.

 

Well Alan, all I can suggest is that you just filter me out if it's too

much for your large brain to contain. But I don't really believe

"intelligent" people comment on things like this...

 

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[Guest Alan]

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Terry, it boggles my mind that anyone can think that header line is amusing.

 

I'll admit that when I FIRST saw it in some other newsgroups 8 or 9 years

ago, it was kind of amusing.

 

But it got really boring and unfunny really fast.

 

Alan

 

"Terry R." <F1ComNOSPAM@pobox.com> wrote in message

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> The date and time was 5/9/2008 7:06 PM, and on a whim, Alan pounded out on

> the keyboard:

>

>> No, Terry, I have to agree with Nonny.

>>

>> It IS pretty annoying. And I'm quite intelligent.

>>

>> And that you think it's witty ...well, what is there to say?

>>

>> Alan

>>

>> "Terry R." <F1ComNOSPAM@pobox.com> wrote in message

>> news:ebxDa5isIHA.4912@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...

>>> The date and time was 5/9/2008 3:20 PM, and on a whim, Nonny pounded out

>>> on the keyboard:

>>>

>>>> On Fri, 09 May 2008 15:01:25 -0700, "Terry R." <F1ComNOSPAM@pobox.com>

>>>> wrote:

>>>>

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

>>>>> out on the keyboard:

>>>> THAT is a really dumb quote intro.

>>> Funny, intelligent people think it's quite witty. Not counting true.

>>>

>>

>

> Wow, two people with useless comments about header lines.

>

> Well Alan, all I can suggest is that you just filter me out if it's too

> much for your large brain to contain. But I don't really believe

> "intelligent" people comment on things like this...

>

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> Terry R.

>

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[Guest Nonny]

Re: Strange login

 

On Mon, 12 May 2008 07:17:09 -0700, "Terry R." <F1ComNOSPAM@pobox.com>

wrote:

>Wow, two people with useless comments about header lines.

 

Two people with useless comments about a really stupid, dumb, annoying

and useless quote header.

 

The header is merely a reflection of the poster, I'd guess.