extreme slow startup of Windows XP

System configuration: ECS K7S5A mobo; 256 Mb DDR Ram (266) PC2100; Athlon
1400+; Windows XP Home.

I bought 256 Mb DDR Ram (26, PC2100) extra to increase internal memory but
during booting I got an error message: Secondaire slave drive Atapi
incompatible. This happened to be my CD-burner (never gave any problems
before). In the BIOS I changed the setting of the sec. slave to "not
installed" and booted again. Apparently the memory is recognized because on
the screen it says 512 Mb RAM. This time the Windows startup screens came up
and stayed there, with only the moving green lights, for 2 (!!) minutes.
Then the 3 little lights on my keyboard flashed once and 10 - 20 seconds
later I was able to logon.
I removed the newly bought memory but Windows still starts up with a delay
of 2 minutes. My burner is still not recognized ...
Does anyone recognize this problem? Does anyone know what can be done to get
my Windows to start up in a normal way?
I hope someone can help.

Thanks in advance,
Rene

Could try a system restore to get back to an earlier working state - see
http://search.support.microsoft.com/winxp

There is information on Xp startup here :-
http://search.support.microsoft.com/...winxp&sid=1157

Hope this helps



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System configuration: ECS K7S5A mobo; 256 Mb DDR Ram (266) PC2100; Athlon
1400+; Windows XP Home.

I bought 256 Mb DDR Ram (26, PC2100) extra to increase internal memory but
during booting I got an error message: Secondaire slave drive Atapi
incompatible. This happened to be my CD-burner (never gave any problems
before). In the BIOS I changed the setting of the sec. slave to "not
installed" and booted again. Apparently the memory is recognized because
on
the screen it says 512 Mb RAM. This time the Windows startup screens came
up
and stayed there, with only the moving green lights, for 2 (!!) minutes.
Then the 3 little lights on my keyboard flashed once and 10 - 20 seconds
later I was able to logon.
I removed the newly bought memory but Windows still starts up with a delay
of 2 minutes. My burner is still not recognized ...
Does anyone recognize this problem? Does anyone know what can be done to
get
my Windows to start up in a normal way?
I hope someone can help.

Thanks in advance,
Rene