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PC stalling @ BIOS

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by lowryda

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AMD Athlon 5200+ AM2x2 940 pin
ASUS M2N SLI
Samsung 2x 1Gb DDR2 667MHz
WD SATA 320G
Asus/gigabyte 8600GT 512Mb DDR2
Kapersky Antivirus
XP Sp2

Hi, I was on a friends PC yesterday briefly with the above specs and noticed something interesting.

When the pc is powered up it almost stalls at the bios screen, but then eventually moves on to continue the xp boot process. I asked him when this started occurring and he stated after an xp update (not sure if this is accurate as user is not really comfortable with PC's). Has anyone experienced this type of issue before?

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by thechas

If anything, I would look and make sure that the correct driver for the SATA controller is installed. Microsoft has a bad habit of sending wrong drivers out when you use Windows Update to get them.

At the transition from the BIOS to Windows starting to load, the only things involved are NTLoader and the storage driver.

You might also want to look at the BIOS settings to make sure that the BIOS does not need to "search" for the default boot drive. That could also slow the boot process down.

Chas

by lowryda

That makes perfect sense and this sounds like what has happened in this case. Thanks for your prompt reply

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