First post, by XTac
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Hi,
I have an issue that bugs me a lot. I used to run ME and XP dualboot on my PC, it worked fine. ME was booting off an IDE hard drive, XP was booting off a SATA SSD. XP boot time from the logo to Welcome screen was like 10-15 seconds. I wiped out all the drives because I wanted to change ME to 98SE. I unplugged the SSD to prevent 98 from seeing it during the install. Once 98 was fully set up I replugged the SSD and began to install XP on it. XP installed itself on C, which is good. However now the boot times for XP have increased to over 2 minutes, which is not acceptable for me. The worst part about it is that I have no idea what causes this. I suspected my internal USB card reader, but i quickly dropped it from the list of suspects as safemode boots quickly and still finds the card slots - i also unplugged the reader from USB header and it didn't impact the boot time at all. I reinstalled XP but this i unplugged the IDE drive where 98 is installed, that didn't help either. Enabling the verbose boot mode has brought me no new information - it stays at loading agp440.sys until Welcome screen comes up, which is completely normal behavior. Only additional clue is that Linux bootable images such as gparted also suffer from long boot. Meaning there is something wrong with the BIOS configuration, but nothing has changed there since i used to run ME % XP dualboot which worked flawlessly. Doesn't help that the BIOS is barebones and doesn't really allow me to disable devices without physically unplugging them.
By this point I am completely lost and quite frustrated at this machine. It is a system built on asrock 775i65g with E5800, 2 GB memory, with primary IDE connected to HDD as master and DVD as slave, as well as SATA SSD. Running on "compatibility mode" as 9x won' boot otherwise. It has no right to be as slow as it is right now, especially when it was running blazing fast at this same exact configuration just a reinstallation ago. If anyone else encountered similar issue or has some ideas, please let me know. This issuetakes away any enjoyment from tinkering on this machine-