Slowwwwww bootup

[massacreinfallx]

during bootup my computer sits at the windows logo screen for like 2 minuits, like 40 passes of the little blue bar. now a few days ago before this would happen it would boot up in about 5 passes of the bar. i dont know why this could be does anybody else?

also microsoft is telling me my copy of windows is no genuine when i know it is. i dont really care if they think im geinuine or not so i just click fix it later. could this be part of my problem?

 

[jcortes]

could be but is your msconfig cleared and have you installed any hardware latley?

 

[massacreinfallx]

yea msconfig is all good. but actually yeah, i installed another cd/dvd rw drive today. just kindof threw it in there.

lol 2 drives are running on one ide cable one on the master position and one on the slave. can you even do that? or is that just for hard drives. lol i diddnt really think about it, just kindof threw it in.

 

[jcortes]

some one else actually had this exact problem there was no solution for it really hold on let me find it. they had also just installed a new drive and it was causing it to slow down alot and the process bar of windows and when they put it in another machine i think it did the same thing.

EDIT: found it

http://www.techist.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=117042&highlight=slow

 

[massacreinfallx]

actually you know what it oculd be, the little jumper on the back, its in the master position while being plugged into slave i just relized that. let me try and fix it.

 

[jcortes]

ok let me know if that works.

 

[A-mak]

just letting you know, dvd burners seem to like being on slave in my runnings with the dvd-rom on master (thats how mine is)

 

[massacreinfallx]

the dvd rom is now on slave and it diddnt help at all. im thinkin about just hooking a seperate IDE cable up to it and putting it in cable select mode.

 

[jcortes]

that could work. also make sure you have the latest firmware installed.

 

[massacreinfallx]

the only thing thatworked was unpluging the dvd drive completely. dont know why. but i just boot up then plug it in after windows startup