taking long time on welcome screen ??

Question

Hello ,

I have computer with following specification ..



OS : window XP professional



Processor: 533 Mhz Intel Celeron

Primary cache : 32 Kb

Secondary cache : 128 Kb

Tertiary cache : 128 KB



Main circuit board : Tyan computer corporation , Intel 810 1.0

Bus clock : 66 MHz

BIOS American Megatrends Inc 063101 01/15/99



Ram : 256 Mb



Hard drive : 20 GB



Problem :

when i start the computer it shows that S.M.A.R.T is present but disabled ..when i able it ..it wont work properly ....it takes a long time on welcome screen which opens with a beep sound ..sometimes it takes 15-20 minutes in that welcome screen ...i have already uninstalled all the softwares which were usually loading at the beginning ...i disabled everything in msconfig ....so could anybody please suggest me anything else ..would BIOS update helps in anyways ..if yes how can i do that ...

thanks ..

Answer 1

Just open youc romputer and remove the watch battery for a minute, then put it back in. This will reset your bios. Make sure your computer is unplugged first. When you unplug it, press the power button again to get out eccess energy.
PS: go to run, type in prefetch, delete everything(programs you use will be put back in but spam will not)

Answer 2

The computer is way outdated but its sufficient enough to run windows xp, one thing you can do is disable all the start up programs. Thats why its taking so long at the welcome screen because it is loading up all the software. you can disable it by going to start and run. Type this in msconfig and go to the startup tab, and disable all the programs that you don't use or havent heard of, keep all your software that you use. But if you have aim yahoo messenger or anything like that set to start up at windows startup disable it, you can load it up individually.

Ahh looks like you already mentioned the msconfig sorry about that, the bios reset won't work, that has nothing to do with software, this seems to be a hardware issue, or your hard drive is dying. It could be failing or your motherboard is failing.

Answer 3

Hi. That is a VERY slow system to run any version of XP on. The best think you could do is max out your RAM. 256 is marginal at best.

Answer 4

Check your booting sequence, and turn off any networks on your BIOS.
It happened to me one stage and the problem was that network processes were interfering. So I turned off all unneccessary wireless/ network cards etc. and it turned okay.

Answer 5

you should get more ram and then it will go fast