Slow boot, also boot logo disappears :(

[azagahl]

Boot Log Examiner is showing a lot of wasted time during boot up on my 98 SE PC. The floppy disk controller seems to be the biggest waste. The disk doesn't spin up, and it doesn't matter whether I have a disk in or not. I have "Search for new floppy disk drives each time your computer starts" disabled. Has anyone else had this problem?

1.33 seconds - VIDE-CDD.SYS

2.94 seconds - SBEINIT.COM[00006768] starting

1.22 seconds - Initing viadsk.mpd

3.17 seconds - Enumerated ViewSonic VX900-2 (MONITOR\VSC9011\PCI_VEN_10DE&DEV_0330&SUBSYS_00000000&REV_A1_000800)

11.39 seconds - Enumerated Standard Floppy Disk Controller (ACPI\*PNP0700\0)

Another problem I have is that the bootup logo tends to disappear prematurely, so the PC just shows a black screen with a blinking cursor. According to Boot Log Examiner, programs like SMARTDRV.EXE or DEBUG.COM that are run inside of AUTOEXEC.BAT are usually logged with a "(logo disabled)" message after them. Why would these programs cause the logo to be disabled? Is it perhaps due to the memory area they use? Trying to hide output from the programs (e.g. with CTTY NUL) doesn't seem to help.

[azagahl]

I tried disabling my floppy disk controller, then renaming HSFLOP.PDR. After doing this, the time delay was still there, it was instead all being blamed on the monitor enumeration (~15 seconds).

However, I think I've solved the slow down problem. I took a wild guess and renamed d347prt.pdr (Daemon Tools) and it boots much faster now even with the floppy re-enabled. This could be because I had a couple of iso's mounted when I booted, or it could just be that Daemon Tools are slow. Unfortunately, the BOOTLOG.TXT did little to help diagnose this problem

I still have the problem with the boot logo (LOGO.SYS) vanishing shortly after it appears. After commenting things out in my AUTOEXEC.BAT it now disappears when VMM loads. Is it memory-related? I will try disabling EMM386...

[eidenk]

I think I can remember that when I switched from 98SE to ME the first thing I noticed is that problem of Boot logo appearing only for a very short time as you describe. So I got rid of the logo all together. The install was not an upgrade but a fresh one.