I just bought a AMD Thunderbird 1Ghz with 256MB of RAM, an Asus A7V motherboard and a Maxtor 7200RPM drive. The system is brand new and I and has very little software installed. From the time I power up the computer and finally get to the desktop, it takes around 1 minute and 30 seconds... What's wrong with this picture? Most of the bootup time is spent during a 40 second pause, halfway through the startup progress bar and there is no disk activity during this time. Any ideas, or should I revert to Windows 98 2nd Edition. Thanks.

I have a PIII 650 with a 7200rpm Quantum, 256 ram. From a cold boot, mine takes 70 seconds to bott and my desktop to settle down. That's including firewall, viri scanner, and MotherBoard Monitor loaded. You may have some unnecessary services starting up you could do without. Go here http://www.3dspotlight.com/tweaks/win2k_services/index.shtml for a good comprehensive tweak guide on them. I found several that windows sets to auto that I did not need.

I have an AMD Thunderbird 700Mhz CPU on an Asus A7V Motherboard as well. If you are not running anything off the on-board Promise 100 ATA controller AND have installed the drivers for the controller in Windows this problem will persist. I use a Western Digital Ultra ATA-66 7200rpm drive on the primary master controller and not the Promise ATA-100 controller because of random lock-ups I was experiencing. However by not using the promise controller at all I found Windows just sat there at boot up for AGES without any disk activity. By going into the Device Manager in Windows 2000 I disabled the Promise controller and hey presto - halved my boot up time! I downloaded the latest BIOS update because although you can "disable" the onboard promise controller in the BIOS (i.e. computer doesn't search for devices on the controller just before boot-up) BUT the controller is STILL ACTIVE because Windows detects it and wants to install drivers for it anyway!!! I am waiting for Asus to bring out a BIOS update that totally disables the Promise on-board controller to fix the problem properly. Hope this helps. Brendon

I think it's pretty normal. I have a Pentium III 1ghz with an IBM Ultrastar 36ZX at 10,000rpms, and alot of things do start up on my system too. I just haven't found out what's safe to disable yet so I leave the system just as is. But there is a long pause at the midway point of that starup progress bar.

i had the same problem update your bios to version 1004a this fixed my prob now it boots quick as!! :) (a7v & duron 800) good luck

I have a 486 with win2000 and it takes about 1 day to boot isnt this to long?

Just kidding i have a p3 700@ 933 and takes about 45 sec to boot my devices are as follows p3v4x mb aw 744 sound 3com nic linksys nic ata controller creative tnt2