Try running Spinrite on the hard drive. It may be that one of the disk sectors being read during boot time is "slow."
I did that on an older machine recently, and the improvement in performance was "amazing." Fred Holmes At 12:56 PM 8/20/2009, Chris Dunford wrote: >I've got an older Dell that hasn't been used much for a year or so, but now I >need it. It works fine, but after I hit the power button it takes a couple of >minutes before it starts the boot process. >It just sits there, its little power light flashing rapidly, for about two >minutes, then it starts the boot. Once it starts, everything's fine. So it's >annoying, but not a big deal. > >Diagnosis? ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
