Hello all. I posted this question on many forums so I hope you can help. Sys specs are:

AMD athlon 1 gig cpu

ASUS A7V133 Socket A mobo

KT133A chipset 4 in 1 437's

Radeon 8500 64mb video card

Turtle Beach Santa Cruz PCI sound card

512 megs of SDRAM

Windows 98 SE



I am having a long delay upon bootup.
I get the POST beep, then it lists the PCI device listing screen. That is when the delay happens, before I get to the Windows 98 splash on screen. My boot sequence is:
1. Removable Device(Legacy Floppy)

2. IDE Hard Drive(Maxtor 53073V6)

3. Atapi CD-ROM(Samsung Cd-R/RW SW-206

4. Other boot device INT18 Device(network)

I do have a Linksys NIC card in my system but since I am not hooked up to a network(a LAN game i was doing with a friend) I unbound IPX and IP from my NIC so i dont get the network password logon screen on anymore. I dont have many programs loading up at msconfig..only load power profile and systray.
I used a utility called bootanalzyer and it says its aprrox 11 seconds total time and its dead wrong. It takes me a total of 38 seconds to get to the windows splash screen. I know its not the network card since this never happened before with it in there and not being used. All i know is that as a joke my friend unplugged my hard drive 4 pin connector thing and I tried signing on the net one day and the comp froze...tried rebooting and windows wouldnt reboot...so i looked in the case and saw the connector not plugged in the hard drive. It seems before that happened, my boot times were fine. Could there be some damage? Would a reformat of windows take care of this? Here is what bootanalyzer said:

11:08:44 0.94 LoadSuccess = C:\WINDOWS\HIMEM.SYS
11:08:45 3.11 LoadSuccess = C:\WINDOWS\IFSHLP.SYS
11:08:51 0.28 Enumerating RADEON 8500/RADEON 8500LE (PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_514C&SUBSYS_013A1002&REV_00\0008 00)
11:08:52 0.39 Enumerating USB Root Hub (USB\ROOT_HUB\PCI&VEN_1106&DEV_3038&SUBSYS_1234092 5&REV_16&BUS_00&DEV_04&FUNC_02)
11:08:54 0.33 Initing esdi_506.pdr
11:08:54 1.39 Initing esdi_506.pdr
11:08:56 0.28 Init Success esdi_506.pdr
11:08:56 0.28 Dynamic load success C:\WINDOWS\system\serial.vxd
11:08:57 1.17 Starting Santa Cruz PCI Audio Accelerator (PCI\VEN_1013&DEV_6003&SUBSYS_33575053&REV_01\BUS_ 00&DEV_09&FUNC_00)
11:08:59 0.67 INITCOMPLETE = NAVAP
11:09:00 0.39 Dynamic load success C:\PROGRA~1\COMMON~1\SYMANT~1\VIRUSD~1\20020424.00 5\NAVENG.VXD
11:09:00 4.94 InitDone = TSRQuery (time estimated)
11:09:05 3.89 Enumerated Default Monitor (MONITOR\DEFAULT_MONITOR\PCI_VEN_1002&DEV_514C&SUB SYS_013A1002&REV_00_000800_1)


I am really frustrated however I enjoy learning at the same time. If anyone can help me I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks!