Windows 2000 slow boot for detecting second core/cpu

[trodas]

I was told that during W2k booting onl Opteron they search for second core/cpu, witch add unnecessary wair during boot time. I wonder if anyone tried fix that problem and patch windows 2000 somehow that they did not do that on single core AMD 64 cpu's

Is there anyone capable of that?

[jaclaz]

I am not sure I got right your question, but maybe you are referring to the known problem of the "wrong" HAL, sometimes setup installs a "multiprocessor HAL" (which is correct for a dual CPU motherboard with two CPU's) instead of the "uniprocessor HAL" (which is correct for a dual CPU motherboard with just one CPU installed).

Here you can find some info on the different types of HAL's:

http://www.vernalex.com/guides/sysprep/hal.shtml

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/237556/en-us

Unfortunately, "fiddling" with HAL's can easily make your system unbootable, so that the recommended way to change (if needed) HAL's, is to reinstall:

http://www.jsifaq.com/SF/Tips/Tip.aspx?id=2044

though it IS possible to do so WITHOUT reinstalling:

http://www.buildorbuy.org/hal.html

Here is a method for XP:

http://www.local.nu/HelpDesk/index.php?tit...ng_motherboards

However you can try with the /onecpu switch in boot.ini:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysintern...on/bootini.mspx

it should resolve the booting delay.

jaclaz

[trodas]

Thanks for great reply

However it looks like my machine is correctly installed and detected as one CPU ASCPI PC... And there is still pretty long wait in the startup w/o any disc activity with not even the /onecpu option after /fastdetect one in boot.ini file cure.

So at least I know that the slow boot is not caused by this - but by something else. Maybe 2G ram is a bit too much for my Win2k or what...

[jaclaz]

Hmm, I don't think that there is any problem with two GB of memory.

Though I have no way to be sure about this, it sounds more like a problem with a driver or with a Registry that needs cleaning/defragging.

Try creating a log with the

/BOOTLOG

Causes Windows to write a log of the boot to the file %SystemRoot%\Ntbtlog.txt.

switch in boot.ini.

Also, you can try using this tool:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysintern...ies/regmon.mspx

to log boot accesses to the Registry

A good idea is however to use some Registry cleaning tool like Regseeker:

http://www.hoverdesk.net/freeware.htm

and a backup/compacting tool like ERUNT:

http://www.larshederer.homepage.t-online.de/erunt/

jaclaz

[trodas]

Okay, there goes bootlog:

¦Service Pack 2 1 28 2007 19:31:16.500

Driver was loaded .\WINNT\system32\ntoskrnl.exe

Driver was loaded .\WINNT\system32\hal.dll

Driver was loaded .\WINNT\system32\BOOTVID.DLL

Driver was loaded .d347bus.sys

Driver was loaded .ACPI.sys

Driver was loaded .\WINNT\System32\DRIVERS\WMILIB.SYS

Driver was loaded .pci.sys

Driver was loaded .isapnp.sys

Driver was loaded .pciide.sys

Driver was loaded .\WINNT\System32\DRIVERS\PCIIDEX.SYS

Driver was loaded .MountMgr.sys

Driver was loaded .ftdisk.sys

Driver was loaded .Diskperf.sys

Driver was loaded .dmload.sys

Driver was loaded .dmio.sys

Driver was loaded .PartMgr.sys

Driver was loaded .atapi.sys

Driver was loaded .d347prt.sys

Driver was loaded .\WINNT\System32\Drivers\SCSIPORT.SYS

Driver was loaded .disk.sys

Driver was loaded .\WINNT\System32\DRIVERS\CLASSPNP.SYS

Driver was loaded .Fastfat.sys

Driver was loaded .KSecDD.sys

Driver was loaded .NDIS.sys

Driver was loaded .Mup.sys

Driver was loaded .\SystemRoot\System32\DRIVERS\nv4_mini.sys

Driver was loaded .\SystemRoot\System32\DRIVERS\yk50x86.sys

Driver was loaded .\SystemRoot\System32\Drivers\ElbyCDFL.sys

Driver was loaded .\SystemRoot\System32\Drivers\Cdr4_2K.SYS

Driver was loaded .\SystemRoot\System32\DRIVERS\cdrom.sys

Driver was loaded .\SystemRoot\System32\Drivers\Cdralw2k.SYS

Driver was loaded .\SystemRoot\system32\drivers\ctoss2k.sys

Driver was loaded .\SystemRoot\system32\drivers\ctprxy2k.sys

Driver was loaded .\SystemRoot\system32\drivers\ctaud2k.sys

Driver was loaded .\SystemRoot\System32\DRIVERS\fdc.sys

Driver was loaded .\SystemRoot\System32\DRIVERS\i8042prt.sys

Driver was loaded .\SystemRoot\System32\DRIVERS\L8042pr2.Sys

Driver was loaded .\SystemRoot\System32\DRIVERS\LMouFlt2.Sys

Driver was loaded .\SystemRoot\System32\DRIVERS\mouclass.sys

Driver was loaded .\SystemRoot\System32\DRIVERS\kbdclass.sys

Driver was loaded .\SystemRoot\System32\DRIVERS\audstub.sys

Driver was loaded .\SystemRoot\System32\DRIVERS\ndistapi.sys

Driver was loaded .\SystemRoot\System32\DRIVERS\ndiswan.sys

Driver was loaded .\SystemRoot\System32\DRIVERS\swenum.sys

Driver was loaded .\SystemRoot\system32\drivers\ha20x2k.sys

Driver was loaded .\SystemRoot\system32\drivers\emupia2k.sys

Driver was loaded .\SystemRoot\system32\drivers\ctsfm2k.sys

Driver was loaded .\SystemRoot\system32\drivers\ctac32k.sys

Driver was loaded .\SystemRoot\System32\DRIVERS\flpydisk.sys

Driver was NOT loaded .\SystemRoot\System32\Drivers\lbrtfdc.SYS

Driver was NOT loaded .\SystemRoot\System32\Drivers\Sfloppy.SYS

Driver was NOT loaded .\SystemRoot\System32\Drivers\Changer.SYS

Driver was NOT loaded .\SystemRoot\System32\Drivers\Cdaudio.SYS

Driver was loaded .\SystemRoot\System32\Drivers\Fs_Rec.SYS

Driver was loaded .\SystemRoot\System32\Drivers\Null.SYS

Driver was loaded .\SystemRoot\System32\Drivers\Beep.SYS

Driver was NOT loaded .\SystemRoot\System32\Drivers\sglfb.SYS

Driver was NOT loaded .\SystemRoot\System32\Drivers\tga.SYS

Driver was loaded .\SystemRoot\System32\Drivers\mnmdd.SYS

Driver was loaded .\SystemRoot\System32\Drivers\Msfs.SYS

Driver was loaded .\SystemRoot\System32\Drivers\Npfs.SYS

Driver was loaded .\SystemRoot\System32\DRIVERS\rasacd.sys

Driver was loaded .\SystemRoot\System32\DRIVERS\msgpc.sys

Driver was loaded .\SystemRoot\System32\DRIVERS\tcpip.sys

Driver was loaded .\SystemRoot\System32\DRIVERS\wanarp.sys

Driver was loaded .\SystemRoot\System32\DRIVERS\netbt.sys

Driver was loaded .\SystemRoot\System32\DRIVERS\netbios.sys

Driver was NOT loaded .\SystemRoot\System32\Drivers\PCIDump.SYS

Driver was loaded .\??\C:\WINNT\System32\speedfan.sys

Driver was NOT loaded .\SystemRoot\System32\DRIVERS\redbook.sys

Driver was loaded .\SystemRoot\System32\DRIVERS\rdbss.sys

Driver was loaded .\SystemRoot\System32\DRIVERS\mrxsmb.sys

Driver was loaded .\??\C:\WINNT\System32\giveio.sys

Driver was loaded .\SystemRoot\System32\Drivers\Ntfs.SYS

Driver was loaded .\SystemRoot\System32\Drivers\EFS.SYS

Driver was loaded .\SystemRoot\System32\drivers\afd.sys

Driver was loaded .\SystemRoot\system32\drivers\wdmaud.sys

Driver was loaded .\SystemRoot\system32\drivers\sysaudio.sys

Driver was loaded .\SystemRoot\system32\drivers\swmidi.sys

Driver was loaded .\SystemRoot\system32\drivers\DMusic.sys

Driver was loaded .\SystemRoot\system32\drivers\kmixer.sys

Driver was NOT loaded .\SystemRoot\System32\Drivers\Parport.SYS

Driver was NOT loaded .\SystemRoot\System32\Drivers\Serial.SYS

Driver was loaded .\SystemRoot\System32\Drivers\Aspi32.SYS

Driver was loaded .\SystemRoot\System32\Drivers\ElbyCDIO.sys

Driver was loaded .\SystemRoot\System32\Drivers\Fips.SYS

Driver was NOT loaded .\SystemRoot\System32\DRIVERS\rdbss.sys

Driver was NOT loaded .\SystemRoot\System32\DRIVERS\mrxsmb.sys

Driver was loaded .\SystemRoot\System32\DRIVERS\srv.sys

And I tried all the registry util (some are very nice and interestingly clean the crap out of my registers, good, thanks!) but no gain - yet. Any ideas?

[nmX.Memnoch]

Service Pack 2

Any reason you're not running Service Pack 4?