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Vista bootup.
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Name: Mike T
Date: January 22, 2008 at 11:13:07 Pacific
Subject: Vista bootup.OS: XP Pro SP2CPU/Ram: 3ghz/1gb |
Comment: I have installed Vista but it takes one and a half minutes of black screen, then a further half a minute seeing the mouse arrow
head, till desktop. Is this normal ?
Mike T
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Response Number 1
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Name: The_Oracle
Date: January 22, 2008 at 11:43:06 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)2 minutes boot up time is quite normal on the average vista machine ... tuning and tweaking may get you under 1 minute maybe. however, a good place to start looking for errors would be your event viewer.
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Response Number 3
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Name: Mike T
Date: January 22, 2008 at 15:13:42 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)Thanks The_Oracle and XpUser, Yes, I have 2 drives, 2 Xp patitions on one and Vista on the other. But why the
completely blank black screen for 90 seconds?
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Response Number 5
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Name: suatcini
Date: January 23, 2008 at 04:25:43 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)In a dual-boot environment, you should select an OS and press Enter. Otherwise, it takes 30 seconds for the default OS to start. Do you count this when you say it takes too long to boot up ? What about the time it takes when you boot into XP ? Same length of time ? Do you have both an on-board video chip and a separate video card installed ? Does your PC belong in a domain or LAN ? Regards SuatCINI
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Response Number 7
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Name: Mike T
Date: January 23, 2008 at 09:05:36 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)Well I`m quite close to ditching Vista now, the Event Viewer is showing 290 odd errors
in the last hour and it has only been on 10
minutes in that time ! Over 1,000 errors in the last 24 hours, again I doubt if it was on longer than an hour in that time.
I`m into Xp in less than a minute. I always select the OS in the boot menu.
I do have onboard video and a separate card.
I don`t know about the Pc belonging in a domain or LAN.
The shutdown time is ok. As for the known bug in Win 2000, the symtoms are the same but I don`t understand the cure even if it did apply to Vista.
Thank you all for trying, I may reinstall it and see if that makes a difference.
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Response Number 8
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Name: irish
Date: February 6, 2008 at 03:01:02 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)can anyone help me i tried to instal my web cam and now everything is starting to go even slower and some pages wont even open someone said i need to reboot but how do i do that and will i lose everything. i have no clue about computers
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