Melissa
April 5th 03, 03:31 AM
Brief explanation of what happened:
Hard drive went bad--had to get a new one. Did a clean
install on the new 80gb hard drive--XP startup went from
1 minute to 10-20 minutes (my system: Intel P4 2.4,
1024mb ram). After doing all the things suggested by the
tech and various websites (with no improvement), I
finally checked the system BIOS and discovered that
the "L2 Cache" and the "System BIOS Cacheable" was
changed from "Enabled" to Disable". Changed them both
back to "Enable" and now XP starts up in less than 30
seconds and no system hangups--I do have 14 programs
including an antivirus software during startup.
So, if you haven't check you BIOS recently after doing an
install of XP, you may want to....this could be the
problem.
Hope this helps (forgive me if this post is duplicated)
Hard drive went bad--had to get a new one. Did a clean
install on the new 80gb hard drive--XP startup went from
1 minute to 10-20 minutes (my system: Intel P4 2.4,
1024mb ram). After doing all the things suggested by the
tech and various websites (with no improvement), I
finally checked the system BIOS and discovered that
the "L2 Cache" and the "System BIOS Cacheable" was
changed from "Enabled" to Disable". Changed them both
back to "Enable" and now XP starts up in less than 30
seconds and no system hangups--I do have 14 programs
including an antivirus software during startup.
So, if you haven't check you BIOS recently after doing an
install of XP, you may want to....this could be the
problem.
Hope this helps (forgive me if this post is duplicated)