[chrisgill369]

You know the screen where the blue bar goes from left to right?
Well on my computer the bar moves from left to right at least 30 times! :eek:

My specs are
AMD64 3000+
Asus A8V
512MB Ram
120GB Sata HDD
6600GT

Ive tried a defrag, ive got SP2 installed and i just cant think what i could be. Its not the number of startup entries as there are hardly any.

Any ideas?

[turtile]

Does the computer run slowly thereafter?

If it doesn't, I would try reinstalling windows.

[Tyler1989]

Something suonds corrupted restore system folders using the CD or reformate all together.

[tribalsun]

So your looking at what, maybe 25-30 seconds? If your not experiencing problems within Windows, leave it alone. 25-30 seconds is not worth a reinstall and is hardly indicative of something wrong.

[chrisgill369]

Originally posted by turtile
Does the computer run slowly thereafter?

If it doesn't, I would try reinstalling windows.

After that it loads up really quick, just a few seconds. I really dont want to reinstall because ive just spent ages downloading all my games from Steam lol.

[desiboi]

Well you could cretae another partition and put your games there, and on the first partiton reformat,

[harley3344]

ok can u plz tell me exactly (or point to) what a partiton is

[chrisgill369]

Originally posted by harley3344
ok can u plz tell me exactly (or point to) what a partiton is

I only have one partition at the moment ...

[silence782]

I had a problem similar to that when I had XP and linux dual-booting I got a black screen for at least a minute, then wondows would boot fine. But when I reinstalled XP as a single OS on the HD, it booted just fine.

[geekster]

I had a cdrw drive that went bad and caused the same symptoms. At boot up it would keep checking the drive and eventually start up. I replaced the cdrw and the delay went away.