Asus A8n sli deluxe boot time.

[Swarm]

Hey all, I got an Asus a8n sli deluxe board when they first came out, ever since I put my system together it takes waaay too long to boot. It detects my HD every boot, even though I set it in the bios, and once the OS scrteen with that blue running thing shows up is sits there for almost 4 minutes, then it boots. Once it boots it is lighning fast, so I am at a loss, maybe someone could help me out, would be great. Thank you.
AMD 3500+
512x2 ram
maxtor 160 gig
Audigy 2
Nvidia 7600 GT

[bacterio]

Clean your system from malicious software

[JAC]

Try a smaller boot partition.

[JAC]

I just rememebered bootvis.. get that here from microsoft and it will show you where the time is being spent. This may point you in the direction of a driver problem or possibly a corrupt file.

http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/system/sysperf/fastboot/default.mspx

Get it here:

http://www.softpedia.com/get/Tweak/System-Tweak/BootVis.shtml



Also, run malware software as bacterio suggested first!

[Swarm]

Thank you all for responces, it is not malicious software, since I was not even connected to internet at my first boot, clean install. Getting bootvis now, Hopefully that will help me figure something out, TY!

[bacterio]

Also look for unnecesary services and unnecesary programs at startup (I recommend you to use spybot to manage them)

Optimizing my prescott 3'2ghz 1gb ram nvidia geforce 6200 agp8x I get that it starts only in 1'05 minutes, so your amd could boot faster