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Recently I had to reboot from the W2K install CD and had to go to CMOS to setup the boot sequence to star from the CD, then I turned bak to the original settings. Since than I notice the system boots up really slow, does anyone now whay and how to fix this?
Name: robyn Date: January 12, 2002 at 12:11:52 Pacific
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did you ever find a solution to your problem? I'm having the exact same problem now -- it takes 5 min to get past the windows 2000 startup screen
let me know...
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Name: Tam Date: February 18, 2002 at 21:04:08 Pacific
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I've installed Windows 2000 Pro and XP and it took me about 10minutes to boot into windows. I thoght it was my HDD, so, I switched to a new HDD,but, the same problem is still there. I've tried to change new video card as well. I also tried to disable my SCSI CDR as well but it is still the same. When I Format my HDD and go back to Win98SE it is all fine. I guess it is something to do with 16bits device issue. Not really sure. My teachers don't even know why this is happening. It is one of those Microsoft thingy....
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