Vista - Long Boot Times (7-8 minutes)

After a 8 minute boot to the Install Disk (with a formated hard drive) I now
get 7-8 minute boots after installation (before the sliding thingie goes
away). I have removed all cards from the PCI slots and turned off everything
in the BIOS I can disable with no improvement. I have a Dell Dimension 2350
with the latest BIOS, albiet 2003 vintage. Any thoughts on what can be
causing this?

My guess would be disk corruption. I would boot to the Recovery options (F8
on restart) and use the Command Prompt to run the command :
CHKDSK /R

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"jthende" <jthende@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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I tried another install disk with the same 8 minute boot time to get to the
Install Menu. I scheduled a chkdsk on reboot from within Vista on the
C-Drive and still have the same 7-8 minute boot time. Thanks but still
looking for a solution.

"Mark L. Ferguson" wrote:

You say it's a 2003. Does it have enough RAM and powerful processor to run
Vista ?

"jthende" <jthende@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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It has a gig of RAM and a 2.4 gig processor (P4). Vista says both RAM and
Processor are adequate.

"Ed." wrote:

I just got my brand new dell...... and it does the exact same thing.........
the initial boot every time i turn it on takes at least 5- 10 minutes,
restarts are quick and painless.

It's pretty ridiculous.

"jthende" wrote:

The P4 cpu your machine has is single-core, so the fact that it's 2.4GHz isn't really helping matters much. If possible, try increasing the RAM to 2GB, or more.

Those specs are BARELY okay. As mentioned you really need to increase to 2
gig. Read my other post in your other group.

"jthende" <jthende@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Have you checked in the BIOS for anything the computer might be doing before
it loads the OS? A RAM test for example, or searching for hardware that
isn't present or could be misconfigured? There might be a setting to enable
a boot diagnostic screen which could show what the computer is doing for
those 5-10 minutes on an initial or hard reboot that it doesn't do during a
soft reboot.

"hdboulanger" <hdboulanger@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Or a restore partition that isn't there anymore

"RalfG" <itsnotme@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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