Tim Laferla
December 12th 03, 06:37 PM
Hey Mate,
Had a similar problem and found the only way to fix it was
to re-install, repair or maybe some of your hardware was
incompatible (thats what was wrong with mine)
Hope you fix it,
Cya
Tim
>-----Original Message-----
>I finally got XP installed and working perfectly. But, it
>takes forever to boot up. In the middle of the boot
>process, after my desktop looks complete but before
>everything is "started", it just goes away and "hides"
>for quite awhile. There is no (or very little) hard drive
>activity or any other discernible activity. I thought it
>was too little memory so I upgraded to double speed 512K
>RAM. No change.
>
>Help please.
>.
>
Had a similar problem and found the only way to fix it was
to re-install, repair or maybe some of your hardware was
incompatible (thats what was wrong with mine)
Hope you fix it,
Cya
Tim
>-----Original Message-----
>I finally got XP installed and working perfectly. But, it
>takes forever to boot up. In the middle of the boot
>process, after my desktop looks complete but before
>everything is "started", it just goes away and "hides"
>for quite awhile. There is no (or very little) hard drive
>activity or any other discernible activity. I thought it
>was too little memory so I upgraded to double speed 512K
>RAM. No change.
>
>Help please.
>.
>