the_ragman
Broken In
i have an hp pavillion t250i pc with a 2.4 ghz intel pIV, 256 mb 333mhz ddr ram and an 80 gb udma hdd. i have winxp home installed, updated to sp2.
my problem is that it takes forever to start up! whenever i start the pc, it firstly takes 2 minutes to load windows, and then it gets stuck on the login gui interface at "windows is starting up". i am forced to restart manually. then, it gets to the user selection, and gets stuck there. i simply cannot select a user. and i cant even restart the pc from there, and have to do it manually again. on the third pass, it works fine. this problem has only started after i removed suse linux 9.1 from my pc. it was on a 12 gb partition, which i have now made into an extended ntfs. the boot.ini file is fine, i have scanned my hard disk for errors using the native utility as well as system mechanic pro 6. no errors, and no viruses, either. what could be the problem?
also, in windows, if i right click on the desktop, the menu appears after at least 15 seconds, with the hourglass busy cursor being the only sign that the pc is working. and this has been happening since i bought the pc 2 years ago...
my problem is that it takes forever to start up! whenever i start the pc, it firstly takes 2 minutes to load windows, and then it gets stuck on the login gui interface at "windows is starting up". i am forced to restart manually. then, it gets to the user selection, and gets stuck there. i simply cannot select a user. and i cant even restart the pc from there, and have to do it manually again. on the third pass, it works fine. this problem has only started after i removed suse linux 9.1 from my pc. it was on a 12 gb partition, which i have now made into an extended ntfs. the boot.ini file is fine, i have scanned my hard disk for errors using the native utility as well as system mechanic pro 6. no errors, and no viruses, either. what could be the problem?
also, in windows, if i right click on the desktop, the menu appears after at least 15 seconds, with the hourglass busy cursor being the only sign that the pc is working. and this has been happening since i bought the pc 2 years ago...