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| Thread ID: 44051 | 2004-04-05 06:45:00 | Windows taking its time to boot...... | Chilling_Silence (9) | Press F1 |
| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 227348 | 2004-04-06 03:20:00 | Is it not normal for Windows to take 15 minutes to boot? :D | Graham L (2) | ||
| 227349 | 2004-04-06 03:26:00 | anything over 12 minutes is cause to worry....... | metla (154) | ||
| 227350 | 2004-04-06 04:09:00 | ***! You will not believe this... Lets take a quick few guesses, by 3:30 I'll post how I fixed it. Guesses on what it was that was wrong then... Hint: Think real small problem.... .... Chill. |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 227351 | 2004-04-06 04:44:00 | There's a setting in Windows that let's you pick how long to wait to boot. You can set it to any amount of time or "0". I can't imagine anything else that would delay a boot so long. | WILLWILLWILLWILL (236) | ||
| 227352 | 2004-04-06 04:50:00 | Thats for Boot Loader choices, but nice try :-) It was the HDD LED... It was around 180 degrees the wrong way. Swapped it round, powered it up and it was fine :-) What a bloody hassle... Something so small..... :-( Chill. |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 227353 | 2004-04-06 04:53:00 | Something like this happened to me recently. I had faulty ram, and it said I had only 32mb instead of 256mb. XP took a very long time to load, in fact, I never found out how long, because I could not be bothered waiting. Check the memory with something like memtest i think. |
mejobloggs (264) | ||
| 227354 | 2004-04-06 04:59:00 | > It was the HDD LED... It was around 180 degrees the > wrong way. > > Swapped it round, powered it up and it was fine :-) > > What a bloody hassle... Something so small..... WOW! :O (Why did I not think of that :p :D) |
stu140103 (137) | ||
| 227355 | 2004-04-06 05:11:00 | Good idea to pull all those plugs when troubleshooting. | metla (154) | ||
| 227356 | 2004-04-06 11:42:00 | These things are actualy a lot simpler than you would like them. | mikebartnz (21) | ||
| 227357 | 2004-04-06 11:46:00 | I suggested that because of hearing of a case where the PC never worked on the home turf and finily the tech guy arrived at the installation and found the PC totaly covered in fridge magnets. | mikebartnz (21) | ||
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