When my computer boots or reboots, it goes through the BIOS and system info screens quickly. Then it shows the main drives that are attached and moves on to the black screen that has a progress bar stating: "Staring up Windows..." That screen is quick to load and disappear. My problem starts on the following screen. The Screen is mostly white and has color. It says somthing like: MicroSoft Windows 2000 Professional built on Nt technology...etc. This screen also has blue a progress bar that fills up half way When my computer boots or reboots, it goes through the BIOS screen quickly, and then shows the main drives that are attached quickly, It then moves on to the black screen that has a progress bar stating: "Staring up Windows..." That screen is quick to load and disappear. My problem starts on the following screen. The Screen is mostly white and says something like: MicroSoft Windows 2000 Professional built on Nt technology...etc. This screen also has a progress bar that fills up half way, but then hangs for an unusual amount of time. I timed it at 150 seconds or longer before the progress bar moves and finally loads. When it does load, the desk top comes up very fast and the computer seems to work fine. While it is hung in that 150 sec time span, the computer doesnt sound as if it is working onn any thing. What I want to know is: "What is the computer doing or trying to do during this 150 seconds? Is there any way that I can speed it up or switch some settings to make it skip whatever process is hanging it up?

It sound like its timing out on some device drivers.. what is your hardware and network configuration? ie network cards, Scsi cards scanners etc. is every thing attached and switched on?

Thanks for the response. I thought that it was a device problem too. I have a Ethernet card that I got the driver from microsoft but I have it disabled since I dont connect to a network or broadband. I have a printer connected and it is always turned on. I got its driver from the disk it came with. I dont believe I have a SCSI attached, however Im not quite sure what that is. Does it plug into a PCI port? When I go to devices after the pc boots up, everything has a working status and the drivers seem fine. Is there some way to see what It is doing when It boots? I ran a boot log but I was not sure what I was going to do with the info. In the boot log, there seemed to be a lot of drivers that werent loading. Is there some way to check if I need these and how I can set the pc to not look for them if I dont? If I do need them, how can I fix the issue with them not loading? Suggestions welcome :)