excedingly long boot time??? not HDD

[bigmuddy11]

now i'm confused is it gigabyte or ecs?I had thought i was getting a gigabyte motherboard but now?
is this an el cheapo and have i been ripped off?

[MSIC]

Well the motherboard link you just posted is ECS, not Gigabyte.
ECS are still good thought, so i dont think you have been ripped off. It's not El Cheapo. The most important aspect is the chipset, which is the Intel 865, and is regarded very highly as being reliable.

[bigmuddy11]

Right-click My Computer and choose Manage and then expand the Event Viewer, click on System.

Do you have any ATAPI or DISK errors?

Here is a list of the errors reported

service control manager/user n/a
warning on tcpip? user n/a
warning on w32time?user n/a
error on DCOM user "me"

is this bad?

[Paul Adams]

Damn hope it's not the graphics, and only installed sound this week, will try re"gunking" cpu as last resort if i can find big enough cahoonas...
got a tube of arctic silver here somewhere..

When did your problem start?
A reboot or 2 after the sound card was installed?

I would time how long it takes to boot if you remove the card - at the least it will rule out the sound card (drivers) as the boot delay.

If you are going to look through Event Viewer then you need to double-click the event to see the details, the event code & text are needed as well as the type & source.
Service Control Manager entries might be interesting, especially if they are warning or error types.

[Agent]

This is going to sound weird - but unplug the DVD burner and retry.

[bigmuddy11]

This is going to sound weird - but unplug the DVD burner and retry.

Hi, not weird at all, i thought it might have been taking a while to initialize so i put in another brand new dvd burner, still the same thing, although i will try it without one completely when i come home at lunch time when i have enough time to wait for the blasted restarts..
thanks for the reply.

[bigmuddy11]

When did your problem start?
A reboot or 2 after the sound card was installed?

I would time how long it takes to boot if you remove the card - at the least it will rule out the sound card (drivers) as the boot delay.

If you are going to look through Event Viewer then you need to double-click the event to see the details, the event code & text are needed as well as the type & source.
Service Control Manager entries might be interesting, especially if they are warning or error types.

Sorry, i only installed the sound card last week, this prob has been happening for about 11 months now

[Jodo]

I had this prob last year when I installed a gfx card. I didn't disable the onboard IGP at first and the system ran really slow through boot up and beyond. Disabling onboard worked for me, so give it a try, that might sort it.

[noveltylamp]

One thing which can cause Windows to take a long time to boot up is if it is trying to acquire an IP address by DHCP and eventually it times out and the system boots. Remove or disable in BIOS any network cards and IEEE1394 Firewire interfaces and see if the problem goes away, then re-enable one by one until you find the culprit.

All users can save a bit of boot up time by assigning a static IP address to their machine and connecting to a router.

[shaithis]

Try disbaling the swap file, reboot and re-enable swap file.