computer lags loading windows.. please help!

[noob with an RS 10+ year member]

ok here's the deal. about two months ago i built my buddy a decked-out computer. it took ten seconds to get into windows starting from POST.. the computer has a 3700 mhz san diego athlon 64 chip and 2 gigs of ram and a sweet video card. its lightning fast compared to my 3ghz athlon. well now hes complaining about it freezing up on him in the mornings. he said he'll wake up to go turn on his computer and it'll freeze during the screen that shows the windows xp logo with the blue squares at the bottom moving.. when it freezes those squares just stop moving. then he'll turn his computer off and turn it bac on and instead of freezing, it will lag at that same exact screen. by lag, i mean that it will take at least a minute to get into windows. the windows xp logo shows and the blue squares at the bottom are moving the whole time. but it takes at least a minute to get into windows. it use to take 10 seconds no exaggeration. does anyone have any ideas what it might be? the last time it did this because the onboard sound was enabled in BIOS and a sound blaster live! PCI was installed (i guess they were conflicting with each other?). i took out the sound blaster live and just chose for him to use the onboard sound and that seemed to fix the boot-up problem. but now his computer is having this similar symptom again and im going to head to his house after work to chec it out. anyone have any ideas? your help will be greatly appreciated!!thanks.

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[Raven 10+ year member]

Didn't you mention that his onboard LAN was running, too? Try disabling that and re-starting. It's also possible that a machine that big is simply overheating.

 

[noob with an RS 10+ year member]

Didn't you mention that his onboard LAN was running, too? Try disabling that and re-starting. It's also possible that a machine that big is simply overheating.

yea his onboard LAN is enabled and running because he doesnt have an ethernet card. he needs to use the onboard LAN. i guess i can try disabling the onboard LAN to see if it solves the problem but if it happens to solve the problem, how will he be able to get on-line??? and i dont think its an overheating issue being that everything is new especially the 80-dollar thermaltake case. helllp!!!

 

[nVRuckus 5,000+ posts]

from safemode

1) go to msconfig

a)selective startup and uncheck process win.ini

b) check to see what services are starting but check hide all microsoft service. If its not something that needs to start with windows disable it

c) startup really doesnt need anything starting up but antivirus stuff.

2) system cleanup

3) disk defrag

4) reboot and send me $35 //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif

if it still locks up you have either a hardware problem or a virus.

 

[krouchchocolate 10+ year member]

try considering reformatting

 

[noob with an RS 10+ year member]

ok i got to his house yesterday after work and the first thing i did upon loading windows was go to add/remove programs. i removed a google toolbar, a google dessktop (or something like that), viewpoint media player, and viewpoint manager. BAM. it worked. windows starts up within SECONDS now. hell yes. i am teh shit. solved it in less than 3 minutes. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif

 

[sumone 10+ year member]

It freezes at the "Windows XP" logo screen with the moving boxes at the bottom? At that point in bootup, all it's doing is loading drivers & OS critical components. User programs don't start (unless it's a service) until after login, so double check hardware & drivers, etc.

 

[sumone 10+ year member]

solved it in less than 3 minutes. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif

**** I'm late...interesting that add/removing those programs solved it.