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30 sec blank screen B4 XP loads....
Name: bhgchris Date: February 5, 2004 at 00:33:19 Pacific OS: XP Home SP1 CPU/Ram: P2.6/ 1gb RAM
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My boot up is as follows... Push power button>10 sec HP Splash>30 SEC BLANK SCREEN!!!>1 sec OS select screen>XP Loads..
What's up with this 30 second blank screen?! Any suggestions welcome.
Name: simonscholey Date: February 5, 2004 at 01:11:25 Pacific
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check the startup details in msconfig
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Response Number 2
Name: bhgchris Date: February 5, 2004 at 01:23:28 Pacific
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Then what?...Don't see anything I can change that would affect that...
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Response Number 3
Name: Ewen Date: February 5, 2004 at 02:29:37 Pacific
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Clean out the registry and optimise (defrag) it. You probably have a day's work of useless entries in it which take up time. I do mine weekly and I load in about 11 seconds flat. Try "Regseeker" or "Ace Utilities". To optimise try "Registry Optimiser".
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Response Number 4
Name: bhgchris Date: February 5, 2004 at 03:19:32 Pacific
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Thanks. I'll try that but I think it might have to do with something else. It has been that way since I've had the computer (1 month). Every boot the blank screen stays on for EXACTLY 30 seconds. No more, no less. Actually, the one time it did not stay on for 30 seconds was when I went into setup. I spent a couple of minutes in setup and then exit. After that the blank screen only flashed for a second. Next reboot back to 30 seconds. I'll try the registry cleaning though
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Response Number 5
Name: bhgchris Date: February 5, 2004 at 03:57:00 Pacific
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Nope. No taco. But I do have a sparklng clean registry now :) Still open to suggestions......
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Response Number 6
Name: AmericanIdol Date: February 5, 2004 at 04:52:49 Pacific
Name: echotechnical Date: February 5, 2004 at 20:56:23 Pacific
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Some MBs have a setting in the BIOS for a delay,, possibly related to hard drive detection. You might check this possibility out. I believe it's enabled by default,, have you cleared your BIOS to defaults lately?
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Response Number 8
Name: JBeez007 Date: February 6, 2004 at 13:37:33 Pacific
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Search the internet for a MS utility called "bootvis" and run it. It may be hard to find because Microsoft stopped posting it on their site but others have it...it will speed up your boot time.
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Response Number 9
Name: bhgchris Date: February 15, 2004 at 04:55:22 Pacific
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None of that worked but I did find the problem. I happen to come across the answer in another post by someone looking for a softare update for an HP. It linked to the HP site which I d/l a Firmware updare for my cd-rom which fixed a 40 sec delay at start up. Thanks for all of your replys and help guys!!!!
Link to the update page for other HP users: Type your model number in here and it will show you, http://h20015.www2.hp.com/en/swLookup.jhtml;jsessionid=ZITWFTQ0P3EVVQFIOGBEPLQ?reg=na&cc=us&lc=en
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