annoying pause during boot-up.

I have an acer 1362wlmi and recently re-installed windows because I wanted to remove all the built up crap etc.

Now after the post screen, there is a long pause with the screen black before the scrolling windows screen comes up, as far as I remeber it didn't do this before the re-install, but was fairly slow to boot. The pause was present before I installed any drivers, and still is after driver installation.

THe only thing I notice is that the wireless light (on the button which enables/disables it) lights up when the windows screen appears, i'm not sure if that's anything todo with it.

I have the same BIOS setup as before with Hard-drive as first boot device and network boot turned off.

Can anyone shed any light on this / suggest anything to fix it as it is rather annoying.

(running windows xp sp2)

 

It could be the fact that the WiFi hardware is being enabled and therefore will start to scan for a network. This may take a while depending on how the card was setup to search for networks. Try flipping the switch off and see if the pause disappears. You also may want to disable your network (ethernet) card as well as this polling will also occur on your LAN card (might have an option to disable your LAN card in the BIOS).

-Vb-

 

I had that on my Acer. However, that was due to the fact that I had the CD/DVD drive set to boot first. It also happened when I had a CD in the optical drive as well.

 

Hmm, have the same problem on my Thinkpad T42. Pause when booting, the wallpaper just loaded but the taskbar has not.

 

Hi,
Have you changed your hard drive in ur acer notebook?