Vista - 5+ minutes boot time

I've been running Vista Ultimate since December without too many major
problems.

In the last couple of weeks, I've noticed that on one of my machines the OS
now takes about 5 minutes to boot (was previously 15-20 seconds).

There's 5 minutes of black screen after the boot options and before the
Copyright screen with the green bars appears, and from then on it's as
normal.

When I try booting in Safe Mode, the last driver to load successfully at
normal speed is ataport.sys and then comes the 5 minute wait, then it
continues.

I religiously keep up to date with Windows Update, and I'm fairly sure this
only started after installing a recent update, possibly my SATA controller.

Any ideas? This is very inconvenient. TIA.

BTN

Would this machine happen to be either an IBM or a Lenovo? If so, there are
known Vista boot issues (and 2 hotfixes) for these.

Stuart.
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"Sir Benjamin Nunn" wrote:

> I've been running Vista Ultimate since December without too many major
> problems.
>
> In the last couple of weeks, I've noticed that on one of my machines the OS
> now takes about 5 minutes to boot (was previously 15-20 seconds).
>
> There's 5 minutes of black screen after the boot options and before the
> Copyright screen with the green bars appears, and from then on it's as
> normal.
>
> When I try booting in Safe Mode, the last driver to load successfully at
> normal speed is ataport.sys and then comes the 5 minute wait, then it
> continues.
>
> I religiously keep up to date with Windows Update, and I'm fairly sure this
> only started after installing a recent update, possibly my SATA controller.
>
> Any ideas? This is very inconvenient. TIA.
>
> BTN
>
>
>

"Stuart [MVP]" <StuartMVP@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:6B3DE1E2-75D7-4F2C-AD51-FD4CC9305F44@microsoft.com...
> Would this machine happen to be either an IBM or a Lenovo? If so, there
> are
> known Vista boot issues (and 2 hotfixes) for these.


It's neither. I built the machine in question myself. Asus P5GD2, P4 550, WD
HDD, Crucial RAM, ATI x1650, Audigy 2ex.

Be willing to try the hotfixes though, as I guess it's possible I'm using a
component somewhere that also features in the machines you mentioned.

BTN