XP Boot Times

[Stumpy]

How long does Xp take to boot up on your system?
I have Xp Pro Athlon XP1800, 256ddr, Asus A7v22e mobo. It takes 1min 30 seconds at least to boot.
Can anyone tell me how to speed this up and I have already tried bootvis no noticeable improvement.

[dejavu]

have xp1600 can boot in one minute, almost exactly

[]latigid[]

Stumpy i had the same problem but there is a way to get around it. ok this is a few simple steps that should help speed up the boot time of your xp.

1) goto Device Manager - right click My Computer => properties => Hardware tab => Device Manager.

2) now click IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers

3) clic the advanced settings tab in Primary IDE Channel properties.

4) Device 0 will have transfer Mode set to "DMA if avalable" and the Device type is configured to Auto Detection, there both ok.
Now Device 1 settings should have Device type set to "None". if not you should set it to "None" :)

Done! reboot, enjoy the fast bootup time ;p
any probs post here..

[Maxi]

p3 1gig laptop - 58 sec then after '[digital-JP]' little tip, down to 50sec :D

[Stumpy]

Cheers Guys, but in the device one the box where you can change it to none is in fact disabled.
Any pointers
Stumpy

[Kev]

mhn a min, mine takes 35secs (the longest) mind u the more junk that i put on it , the longer it will take to boot :S

[The Pimp]

Between 25 & 30 seconds from cold. Thunderbird 1Ghz, 1Gb PC133 CAS2 (no swap file :)), Abit KT7A-RAID, 7200rpm Seagate Barracuda IV's, WinXP Home OEM.

[Tubob]

Get boot vis it will tell you boot times etc and optimise your boot up time sorry i dont have a like for the programme but its free.

[iggy]

duron 1gig, 128 mb pc2100, msi 745

about 15 - 25 secs without bootvis

[iggy]

forgot to mention you want to disable as many unnecessary start up services as possible. theres a good faq for this floating about somewhere, ill update as soon as i find it again(too many favourites!)

[- Eagle -]

Heres an idea, try using hibernate, much quicker to boot than normal booting. Plus no loggin in and everything is already open.

[PQuiff]

WTH i have an athlon 650 and i have the boot to just under 30 seconds...scsii included...

Weird ass

[no1_pc_doctor]

hibernate crashes my machine at bootup it gets to loading hibernate in for and stops gets no further.

[scottie]

BootVis can dramically decrease your boot times - get it from the microsoft site

[Tami]

Click Start, Run, type in MSCONFIG and enter
check the startup tab to see whats loading, you can untick them to see if any are causing your slow boot