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Weirdest prob I've EVER had... help?
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Posted by: Daėmon
Ok, this is gonna sound weird... but:
I'm currently running a win2K/winXP dual boot on a GA-7VAXP board, with an AMD XP 1800+ CPU and an ATI AIW radeon 8500DV vid card.. (I'll give more details if they're needed)
My issue is, whenever I chose XP from the boot menu, it takes about 3-4 minutes of looking at a black screen before the logon screen comes up. Then I can enter XP no sweat, no hassles. With the 2K section, no delays, everything is mint.
I don't have a clue even of where to start looking. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Daėmon
Posted by: AngstMerchant
Hmmmmm, wow. Uh, my suggestion would be check the mobo manufacturer website and check for BIOS updates?? That's a toughie. . . .
Posted by: p3ngu!n
Have you tried reinstalling XP?
Posted by: slugo3
just a guess but worth a try. go into device manager and under properties for your IDE channels, set it to "none" instead of auto for any that dont have drives. I had a similar problem once and that fixed it.
Posted by: Daėmon
Yeah, I thought of that. But I'm currently running 6 drives, 3 HD's, and 3 roms.. (DVD, CD-RW, and a CD-ROM - the latter being for reading and installs and such, it's easier and cheaper to replace a cheapo CD-ROM than a burner or DVD...just saves wear and tear on the more expensive drives. They're all set to manual, nothing is on the empty IDE channels...
This time, I'm stumped....
Posted by: Waffles
Check some of the tips that Tweaker posted here:
http://www.opentechsupport.net/foru...&threadid=12254
There seem to be some that have to do with boot hangs, maybe one of them will help.
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