Hi all, I've got a very annoying problem with my Windows XP bootup which hopefully someone can help me with. I installed Windows XP Pro OEM onto a newly partitioned and formatted hard drive, but each time Windows boots up there is a delay of 10 minutes. The delay occurs just after the PC checks the floppy and CD-Rom drives for bootable disks. The PC will hang on a black screen for 10 minutes and then proceed to load Windows XP, first showing a row of white/grey progress bars at the bottom of the screen and then showing the Windows loading screen. XP seems to work fine once it's loaded, but the 10 minute wait is driving me mad! I'm using the following hardware:
Abit KG7-Lite Motherboard
128MB DDR-RAM
ATI Radeon Graphics Card
Creative SoundBlaster PCI 16
AMD Athlon 900MHz
The problem started with the first reboot during Windows setup and happens every time I start Windows XP. Any ideas on what could be causing this?
Thanks in advance.
Abit KG7-Lite Motherboard
128MB DDR-RAM
ATI Radeon Graphics Card
Creative SoundBlaster PCI 16
AMD Athlon 900MHz
The problem started with the first reboot during Windows setup and happens every time I start Windows XP. Any ideas on what could be causing this?
Thanks in advance.