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Thread ID: 41049 2003-12-28 09:18:00 New Compaq! Takes 15 mins to startup camo (4895) Press F1
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203743 2003-12-28 09:18:00 Alrighty. My auntie has just bought a brand-spankers Compaq 6000 series, with XP Home. It WAS going fine, but now when you turn it on, the COMPAQ logo appears on screen, and it takes about 15 mins to boot into XP. Bastard. Is it possible that her old (2-3 years old) epson photo scanner could be causing this? I have also noticed that the operating system is really slow, but theres no viruses, spyware, and the CPU/memory usage is fine. Can anyone help? camo (4895)
203744 2003-12-28 19:10:00 Unplug the scanner and see if its any faster.

If it takes 15 minutes to start up, tell her to take it back to the shop she bought it from and get them to fix it. It is under warranty.

Mike.
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203745 2003-12-28 21:58:00 It wasn't bought from the Warehouse Stationery by chance was it?? CYaBro (73)
203746 2004-01-01 05:34:00 Nah it wasn't. Its not like that would change anything, it was bought from Noel Leeming I believe. I'll try the scanner thingee........... camo (4895)
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