XP PRO Bootup

You do not need to apologize, your OP was perfectly clear. I would start
with removing all add in cards and unplug all drives so you just have
motherboard, CPU, RAM, and power supply, see if it goes further. if it does,
add one device at a time till you find the culprit.

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"AT and HMB" wrote in message
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Thank you Terry for a civilised reply.
The computer is one of several I built from scratch and has been in daily
use for 3years or so.
In retrospect, of course I should have realised it was NOT a Windows
problem and to all those people who have become upset/irate about this I
offer my humble apology. To those who have the time to post insults, I say
"get a life"
Following the useful comments I updated my BIOS with the MSI Live Monitor.
This didn't help.
I will now concentrate on the BIOS area and would appreciate any pointer
to NG or User Group that might be able to help me.
Many thanks again to those who replied constructively.

"Terry R." wrote in message
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The date and time was 11/18/2008 1:30 PM, and on a whim, AT and HMB
pounded out on the keyboard:

For some time now my start up hangs for 5 minutes and then goes on to
boot up OK.
The screen freezes thus:
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Phoenix Award Workstation V6.00PG, An Energy Star Ally
Copyright (C) 1984-2005, Phoenix Technologies Ltd
(above is at top of the screen, most of screen is blank until bottom
rows, which read:



Press DEL to enter SETUP, F11 to enter Boot Manager
11/10/2005 - MS - 7030 - 6A61CM4CC - 00
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On pressing DEL, after a long wait, SETUP appears. Today after coming
out of setup (without change) I had to endure a further 5 minutes
freeze.
It always freezes at this same point and, ODDLY, it never fails to boot
up OK.
Help please




Hi AT,

The delay into Setup is either hardware or BIOS related.

When you say, "coming out of setup", what are you saying?

Do you see the XP logo and worm for multiple minutes? OR

Is the screen black for multiple minutes BEFORE seeing the XP logo and
worm?

Is your Boot Manager in use? Has it always been or not been? I've seen
that delay on IBM workstations that have network boot enabled, but are
not longer being started that way. You may have some settings in Boot
Manager that are searching for other devices, or related items in the
BIOS.

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