Slow boot up.

[hougtimo]

Well not slow ... but not quick either.

My problem is that, when I had my old athlonXP 2000+ on an NF2 chipset, XP took 12 seconds from power switch to desktop. I changed my mobo and cpu, to a VIA chipset, with an athlon64 3200+. now windows XP boots slower, it takes more time on the 8-bit colour splash screen, the bar goes across about 7 times. before it went across 1 and a half. I have tried everything to speed it up, but no luck. It seems my mums machine has the same 'feature' also ... she has an NF4 chipset, with the same CPU as me. I used exactly the same CD's for all 3 XP installs, so I'm thinking it must be because of hardware change.

How can I speed it up again?

Thanks

HougTimo

[cluberti]

Note that most of the things loading behind the splash screen are drivers and system services - also, if you happen to use anything other than an IDE controller to boot Windows (SATA, IDE RAID, SCSI, etc), this will take longer due to device enumeration times.

You can always use msconfig or autoruns to disable non-Microsoft services and startup items, but it won't help that much. Have you considered bootvis?

[hougtimo]

Yes, I only have 9 total processes running at startup, and no programs loading at startup. Bootvis only seemed to make it take a little longer. Its no biggie, just a bit annoying, but as you say, it might be motherboard drivers etc....