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Slow boot of Toshiba Satellite
My new Toshiba 205CDS takes about 2:20 min. to boot. For 1:10 of this time there is no hard disk activity. Toshiba is stumped. We have done scandisk (no errors), deleted all start up applications, renamed autoexec.bat & config.sys, and uninstalled a zip drive. An Eiger PCMCIA modem & 8 MB additional RAM are the only add-ons. The unit works fine after booting. We did step confirmation start up and the wait is after loading some of the drivers.
Many times I have seen added interfaces add many seconds to a boot up sequence. Go through your Cmos setup and verify what bios areas are being cached, or shadowed. Do you boot with a CD in the drive, have you tried booting without the CD and instead put the floppy back in? The PC checks the interfaces when you boot so you can swop those things around, all that smartness sometimes costs a little overhead in the form of boot-up time. Boot from a dos floppy and see what the difference in bootup time is, how long before it tries to boot from the floppy?
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Before you get drastic and re-install, how about mem/c/p, or creating a bootlog.txt, then see what is being loaded.
Also, go to http://www.microsoft.com/kb/ choose WINDOWS95;
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1. I can't afford and don't want to reload - I'm going on a 5 week trip to the midwest in less than 2 weeks.
2. RAM=16MB user.dat=85K system.dat=700K CPU=P100
3. Memory: USED FREE
CONV 36.3K 619K
UPPER 0 0
RES 196.6K 0
EXT(XMS) 159.7K 15.7M
MSDOS in HIMEM
4. Tried booting with & without floppy & CD - no change
5. bootlog.txt: following things looked strange - -
Load failed nserver.vxd
" ndis2sup.vxd
" ebios
" vshare
" EBIOS
Device Init failed vpowerd
Dynamic Load Device failed dsound.vxd (file not found)
Init failure ppa3.vxd
Dynamic Load Device failed serwave.vxd (file not found)
Load: 7 misc drivers
gdi.exe
GDI32.DLL
GDI.EXE (loaded 4 times)
3 VGA items
user.exe
DDEML.DLL
USER32.DLL
USER.EXE (loaded 5 times)
17 misc items init/load
user.exe (load success)
many other items until terminate KERNAL (the end)
6. I'm inclined to suffer with slow boot until I get back from vacation. Thanks for all suggestions to date.
2. RAM=16MB user.dat=85K system.dat=700K CPU=P100
3. Memory: USED FREE
CONV 36.3K 619K
UPPER 0 0
RES 196.6K 0
EXT(XMS) 159.7K 15.7M
MSDOS in HIMEM
4. Tried booting with & without floppy & CD - no change
5. bootlog.txt: following things looked strange - -
Load failed nserver.vxd
" ndis2sup.vxd
" ebios
" vshare
" EBIOS
Device Init failed vpowerd
Dynamic Load Device failed dsound.vxd (file not found)
Init failure ppa3.vxd
Dynamic Load Device failed serwave.vxd (file not found)
Load: 7 misc drivers
gdi.exe
GDI32.DLL
GDI.EXE (loaded 4 times)
3 VGA items
user.exe
DDEML.DLL
USER32.DLL
USER.EXE (loaded 5 times)
17 misc items init/load
user.exe (load success)
many other items until terminate KERNAL (the end)
6. I'm inclined to suffer with slow boot until I get back from vacation. Thanks for all suggestions to date.
It looks like Web gave you the answer. You didn't say anything about this machine being on a network, so remove the network drivers. In fact, remove anything that failed to load and your system won't spend any time trying to load it.
Is there, or was there a network card in this PC? I can't see any reson for those drivers to be in your boot-up unless they were once used.
Is there, or was there a network card in this PC? I can't see any reson for those drivers to be in your boot-up unless they were once used.
What it speed of your cpu and how large is your registry?
When you type mem/c/p record what is loaded, everything, and please report your memory configuration. At least you free conventional.