Tech Support Forum - View Single Post - Long pause between POST and Loading screen!

the_slayer · 02-08-2008, 05:49 AM

Hi everyone!

I have been trying to troubleshoot this 1 for a while now and it has really got me stressed!

Symptom:
I sometimes get a long pause (30sec - over a minute) between the POST screen and the Windows Loading screen. The screen is black but is still on. There doesnt seem to be any activity from the HD at this time as far as i have noticed. This is real intermittent and i cant tell when its going to happen or make it happen. Can happen after a reboot or on a cold boot. it has happened with XP and VISTA Home Premium (both 32-bit).

Tested so far:
I have had the pc in a pc shop where they did a stress test, memtest, vid card text, HD test... they did this over night and did not receive any errors. so that is about 98% sure that its not a hardware fault. while i had it at their shop it did not display the problem!

to be safe i changed my SATA cables and i removed the front panel connectors (USB/1394/audio) connectors form the board.

i have also tried formatting and installing drivers from the asus website and also doing a format and installing drivers from the relevant manufacturers websites.

pc specs:
Asus P5K-VM
Core2Duo 2.66gig e6750
160Gig HD (SATA - western digital)
OCZ DDR2 2x1gig 800mhz (timings - 4-4-4-15 2.1V reommended manu)
Gainward 512MB 8600GT
DVD burner (SATA)

any ideas?

02-08-2008, 05:49 AM	#1 (permalink)
the_slayer Registered User Join Date: Feb 2008 Posts: 28 OS: Vista	Long pause between POST and Loading screen! Hi everyone! I have been trying to troubleshoot this 1 for a while now and it has really got me stressed! Symptom: I sometimes get a long pause (30sec - over a minute) between the POST screen and the Windows Loading screen. The screen is black but is still on. There doesnt seem to be any activity from the HD at this time as far as i have noticed. This is real intermittent and i cant tell when its going to happen or make it happen. Can happen after a reboot or on a cold boot. it has happened with XP and VISTA Home Premium (both 32-bit). Tested so far: I have had the pc in a pc shop where they did a stress test, memtest, vid card text, HD test... they did this over night and did not receive any errors. so that is about 98% sure that its not a hardware fault. while i had it at their shop it did not display the problem! to be safe i changed my SATA cables and i removed the front panel connectors (USB/1394/audio) connectors form the board. i have also tried formatting and installing drivers from the asus website and also doing a format and installing drivers from the relevant manufacturers websites. pc specs: Asus P5K-VM Core2Duo 2.66gig e6750 160Gig HD (SATA - western digital) OCZ DDR2 2x1gig 800mhz (timings - 4-4-4-15 2.1V reommended manu) Gainward 512MB 8600GT DVD burner (SATA) any ideas?