ASrock dual core 6 minute boot up

[baz1701]

Hi,
About a year ago I upgraded my tower to a core2 system.
I got as follows: -

ASRock Conroe XFire ESATA2 S775 bundle Intel Core2 6300 @1.86GHz.
2Gb DDR ram
Maxtor IDE HDD, DVD-Rom (both on the IDE cable)
2 additonal HDD's connected via a PCI RAID card.
ATI Graphics card in the PCI-E slot
LinkSys Wireless card.

The problem is it takes up to 6 minutes to boot up Win XP pro and is slugish thereafter. It has done this from fresh installation.

I have tried the following : -

Removed all the cards and sencondary HDD's (only leaving the Primary HDD solo on the IDE cable with jumpers to suit) this did nothing to improve the speed.

Here is my boot log

Service Pack 2 7 30 2008 20:12:13.375
Loaded driver \WINDOWS\system32\ntoskrnl.exe
Loaded driver \WINDOWS\system32\hal.dll
Loaded driver \WINDOWS\system32\KDCOM.DLL
Loaded driver \WINDOWS\system32\BOOTVID.dll
Loaded driver ACPI.sys
Loaded driver \WINDOWS\system32\DRIVERS\WMILIB.SYS
Loaded driver pci.sys
Loaded driver isapnp.sys
Loaded driver ohci1394.sys
Loaded driver \WINDOWS\system32\DRIVERS\1394BUS.SYS
Loaded driver pciide.sys
Loaded driver \WINDOWS\system32\DRIVERS\PCIIDEX.SYS
Loaded driver MountMgr.sys
Loaded driver ftdisk.sys
Loaded driver dmload.sys
Loaded driver dmio.sys
Loaded driver PartMgr.sys
Loaded driver VolSnap.sys
Loaded driver atapi.sys
Loaded driver iteraid.sys
Loaded driver \WINDOWS\system32\DRIVERS\SCSIPORT.SYS
Loaded driver disk.sys
Loaded driver \WINDOWS\system32\DRIVERS\CLASSPNP.SYS
Loaded driver fltMgr.sys
Loaded driver sr.sys
Loaded driver PxHelp20.sys
Loaded driver KSecDD.sys
Loaded driver Ntfs.sys
Loaded driver NDIS.sys
Loaded driver ppsio2.sys
Loaded driver srescan.sys
Loaded driver Mup.sys
Did not load driver ACPI Multiprocessor PC
Did not load driver Audio Codecs
Did not load driver Legacy Audio Drivers
Did not load driver Media Control Devices
Did not load driver Legacy Video Capture Devices
Did not load driver Video Codecs
Did not load driver WAN Miniport (L2TP)
Did not load driver WAN Miniport (IP)
Did not load driver WAN Miniport (PPPOE)
Did not load driver WAN Miniport (PPTP)
Did not load driver Packet Scheduler Miniport
Did not load driver Packet Scheduler Miniport
Did not load driver Direct Parallel
Did not load driver Audio Codecs
Did not load driver Legacy Audio Drivers
Did not load driver Media Control Devices
Did not load driver Legacy Video Capture Devices
Did not load driver Video Codecs
Did not load driver WAN Miniport (L2TP)
Did not load driver WAN Miniport (IP)
Did not load driver WAN Miniport (PPPOE)
Did not load driver WAN Miniport (PPTP)
Did not load driver Packet Scheduler Miniport
Did not load driver Packet Scheduler Miniport
Did not load driver Direct Parallel
Did not load driver Intel Processor
Did not load driver Intel Processor
Did not load driver Audio Codecs
Did not load driver Legacy Audio Drivers
Did not load driver Media Control Devices
Did not load driver Legacy Video Capture Devices
Did not load driver Video Codecs
Did not load driver WAN Miniport (L2TP)
Did not load driver WAN Miniport (IP)
Did not load driver WAN Miniport (PPPOE)
Did not load driver WAN Miniport (PPTP)
Did not load driver Packet Scheduler Miniport
Did not load driver Packet Scheduler Miniport
Did not load driver Direct Parallel
Did not load driver Intel Processor
Did not load driver Intel Processor
Did not load driver Audio Codecs
Did not load driver Legacy Audio Drivers
Did not load driver Media Control Devices
Did not load driver Legacy Video Capture Devices
Did not load driver Video Codecs
Did not load driver WAN Miniport (L2TP)
Did not load driver WAN Miniport (IP)
Did not load driver WAN Miniport (PPPOE)
Did not load driver WAN Miniport (PPTP)
Did not load driver Packet Scheduler Miniport
Did not load driver Packet Scheduler Miniport
Did not load driver Direct Parallel
Did not load driver Intel Processor
Did not load driver Intel Processor
Did not load driver Audio Codecs
Did not load driver Legacy Audio Drivers
Did not load driver Media Control Devices
Did not load driver Legacy Video Capture Devices
Did not load driver Video Codecs
Did not load driver WAN Miniport (L2TP)
Did not load driver WAN Miniport (IP)
Did not load driver WAN Miniport (PPPOE)
Did not load driver WAN Miniport (PPTP)
Did not load driver Packet Scheduler Miniport
Did not load driver Packet Scheduler Miniport
Did not load driver Direct Parallel
Did not load driver Intel Processor
Did not load driver Intel Processor
Did not load driver Audio Codecs
Did not load driver Legacy Audio Drivers
Did not load driver Media Control Devices
Did not load driver Legacy Video Capture Devices
Did not load driver Video Codecs
Did not load driver WAN Miniport (L2TP)
Did not load driver WAN Miniport (IP)
Did not load driver WAN Miniport (PPPOE)
Did not load driver WAN Miniport (PPTP)
Did not load driver Packet Scheduler Miniport
Did not load driver Packet Scheduler Miniport
Did not load driver Direct Parallel
Did not load driver Intel Processor
Did not load driver Intel Processor
Did not load driver Instant Wireless-B PCI Adapter
Did not load driver OHCI Compliant IEEE 1394 Host Controller
Did not load driver Texas Instruments OHCI Compliant IEEE 1394 Host =
Controller

It repeats the "did not load driver" several more times.

Any help would be hugely appreciated as I'm at the end of my tether with this PC as is should be working like a rocketship comped to it's current performance.

[wonkanoby]

was this a clean install or you just used old one

[baz1701]

I formated and reinstalled when I upgraded the PC from the old Athlon parts. I have wiped twice since trying to sort this problem out.

[wonkanoby]

so is device manager seen as a load of ?

[baz1701]

There are no flagged devices in the device managed. The drivers listed are for the on-board sound and other motherboard hardware (usb's etc) which is strange as I have checked and windows is using these drivers once booted. The PC works ok when full up and running but has the speed of a old P2 machine.

[mpulliam]

You have set the BIO to load defaults?

It sure sounds like its trying to boot from a floppy or a cd as well, or is finding some sort of left over OS and trying to force it to load.

EDIT: Your Maxtor is set to Master, and your optical is Slave? Or vice versa?

[baz1701]

The maxtor is set to cable select as is the DVD drive on the same cable. I have tried it with the DVD removed and jumpers set to master and no difference. I went through the bios again last night and they are all set to default settings. The drive was formated and aclean install of XP was installed (it was XP prior to formating on the old system)

[oldbrave]

Actually it seems to me that the Hd never got properly cleaned off. You need to DL the Maxtor Hd Diag and Utilities and completely wipe the drive by deleteing the existing partition and writing zero's to the the whole drive, and the drive is sound and clean of all garbage, your BIOS is set to defaults, that a basic reload should solve your problems.

[baz1701]

I swapped out the maxtor for a spare HDD I had. Deleted and re created the partition, formated it and reinstalled XP. Also installed the raid car and graphics car as well. Also installed zone alarm and AVG. Boot time just under 5 minutes!

Any else I could try?

[CMB]

Did you install the intel chipset drivers ?

[Vear Heart]

Did you install the intel chipset drivers ?

always a good thing to do but i doubt that will affect the boot up times

what type of HDD are you using what speed are we talking

EDIT

looking threw the log it seems as if it wants to load drivers but doesnt have the ablitly too it could get your processors driver which is strange

i say wipe the drivers clean and re do them first then check the log and post it here for us