XP Poblem

[pcdad]

Hi all....

Here's the situation.....a friend of mine built a comp for his kid and installed Win2k. Everything worked fine until he decided to upgrade it to Xp.

Now upon bootup, after it gets to his desktop, it takes anywheres from 5-15 min for the connection icon to appear in the tray. Any attempt to access the Start Menu or any icon on the desktop before it appears results in a lockup.....

If I wait......everything seems to work fine.

I've tried updating all the drivers, etc. Just can't seem to figure this one out......


Any ideas???

Specs:

Celeron 1Gb
PCChips M755 board (yeah, I know)
SiS 630E chipset w/int LAN, Audio, Video
512 RAM


TIA :cool:

[BipolarBill]

Upgrading an OS is almost always a bad idea. A clean install is best.

[pcdad]

Yeah, I know...If it was mine it would have been.

Just trying to help out a friend....

Last thing I want to do is tell him to tell his kid he's going to lose all his stuff....

[BipolarBill]

Try booting from the WinXP CD with as many peripherals removed as reasonable possible. Choose "Install" when you are prompted (don't worry). On the next screen, Setup will see the current installation. Choose "Repair" and continue.

Install the peripherals after setup is done and hope for the best.

BTW...if he reinstalled, he would not lose his data. We are not talking about formatting. Formatting is not usually necessary in WinXP. He would have to reinstall the programs, but the data would still be there. The challenge is in re-integrating that data. Some programs won't do it.

XP is a whole new ballgame.

[pcdad]

Thanx BipolarBill......

I did the reinstall/repair and on first boot, everything was great..worked like a charm.......

till I rebooted the machine, then right back to the way it was......

I tried disabling all the onboard devices and installed a different NIC card with the same results.......

[BipolarBill]

Some piece of hardware needs a driver update or is just plain no good in XP. Finding which device it is will be a pain. Try removing all cards but the video card and see how quickly it boots up. Add back one at a time until the lag returns.

[pcdad]

Originally posted by BipolarBill
Finding which device it is will be a pain.


You got that right......especially since everything is onboard....

I've allready tried disabling all onboard hardware with the same results......

Only thing that seems to avoid the problem is booting in safe mode so I tried disabling everything with MSConfig...same prob...

[BipolarBill]

I would like to suggest something, but I forgot what it was! :rolleyes:

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[Alzarius]

Ok... This may or may NOT help, but... If you have a network card in your computer, it MAY be causing this problem. I've found that if I let windows assign an IP to the network card, it takes about 2-5 minutes each reboot for me to be able to connect to the net through the DSL modem/network card. However... If, after windows has assigned the IP, and I go into the TCP/IP properties for my network card and take the IP that was assigned BY windows and assign that ip to the card permanantly, Windows loads normally and I connect immediately.

Open a command prompt and type ipconfig then hit enter. Look for the IP address of your network card, prolly in the 169. range. Copy that and assign it to the network TCP/IP settings for the network card itself in windows. MAYBE that will solve your problem. It does for me at least.

[Davermonk]

Just a thought... after he reinstalls XP, could he go to each device & "update driver"? Or does XP already do that when u install it?

I'm thinking that if the old drivers from 2k are there, maybe XP isn't overwriting them.

[pcdad]

Just to let you guys know....I fixed it (sort of)....


While looking at the system events logs I found that the "ShellHWDetection" service kept timing out on bootup.

Not sure why but I set it to Manual and alls fine now.....

Thanx for all the ideas guys...:) :)