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Long boot up time with 8890

post #1 of 13
1/28/05 at 3:30am
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Hi,
I tried find this on the forum but didn't have any luck.

For some unknown reason my 8890 seems to stall after the loading screen of windows xp for about 1m 1.5mins i've reformatted and it didn't do it at first but after I installed all the drivers it's doing it again.

So after the loading screen the screen goes black.


I'm running windows xp pro sp1.

Thanks for your help.
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post #2 of 13
1/28/05 at 6:26am
try sp2, when you re-formatted, di you delete and re-create the partitions? if not, that may be the problem, also make sure you don't format quick, you should do the full format
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post #3 of 13
1/28/05 at 9:53am
don't try sp2 - it is a hack imho.
first off go into safe mode for windows see if that does anything different.
you could have bad blocks on the disk although the reformat may have fixed them.
Check you have the right versions of the drivers.
Safe mode will allow you to step thru each driver to check them out during boot.
Good luck.
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post #4 of 13
1/28/05 at 12:11pm
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I should have said, it's a brand new hitachi E7200rpm drive, so that's not the problem.

Thanks for the safe mode idea, I found out what is causing the problem, it's something called AGP440 must be something with the graphics card.

Any ideas? I tried uninstalling the ATI drivers but that didn't fix it.

Ok I disabled AGP440 and now it's freezes when loading Mup.sys.
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post #5 of 13
1/28/05 at 12:33pm
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Ah HA! found it, it was the SD mp3 player that comes with the 8890, I had it in its slot and that for some reason was causing the problem.

Thanks for your help guys.
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post #6 of 13
1/28/05 at 10:26pm
Good news CruzBullit.
As an aside to that I also found this:
http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;324764
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post #7 of 13
1/29/05 at 12:04am
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Thanks Aussie and Kid.
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post #8 of 13
1/30/05 at 5:01am
no prob, sorry i was wrong

but hey, i have an excuse, aussie has THREE 8890's!
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post #9 of 13
1/30/05 at 6:07am
no only two...
three would just bee toooo much
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post #10 of 13
1/31/05 at 12:33am
Quote:
Originally Posted by aussie
no only two...
three would just bee toooo much

hmmmm, i thought u just recently purchased a third one off ebay
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post #11 of 13
1/31/05 at 12:43am
no I had my original one and needed a second for business continuity.
have to let a few other people use them
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post #12 of 13
1/31/05 at 5:08am
oh ok, i'm keeping an eye on the supplies of 88**s and 88** parts :P
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post #13 of 13
1/31/05 at 6:49am
resistance is futile - you will be assimilated...
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