Boot Times

I've been having some boot problems with my computer lately. A couple of weeks ago, I was unzipping a file and explorer.exe crashed. I tried to restart the process, but I couldn't open anything without it crashing. I couldn't run anything, so I rebooted the computer. Upon reboot, I was fucking greeted with a message prompting me to run chkdsk. It was at a screen before it started up the desktop enviroment. It said that $MFT was corrupt, which meant the master file table was corrupt, and unless I wanted XP to start writing over my files, I had to reformat. I backed everything up, and reformated and reinstalled Windows. I updated to SP2, and this is where the problem I'm having now starts. As soon as it reboots, it progresses past the IDE and memory check in the BIOS. Then, the screen goes completely black for about a minute and a half. Then, a gray loading bar appears at the bottom of the page and takes about 5 minutes to dissappear. After that, it boots in about 12 secs, and I ran bootvis to confirm that. I have a Maxtor 250GB SATA drive and a (shitty) PM800M2 motherboard from ECS. I have the latest drivers on and I'm running Windows XP Pro SP2. This problem only happens when I install SP2. Do you guys have any suggestions about what I should do to fix this?

lol wut?

A lot of SP2 problems are related to non complient ACPI bios, in other words, look for a bios update at ecsusa. The another thing you should check is that you have the chipset drivers installed, especially the IDE/ATA controller part.

Hope that helps.

dude, i gave up on bill gates and his monopoly a long time ago, linux is much easier, www.ubuntu.com to get you started, or fedoraproject, but seriously fuck windows"

>>3
I love you Anonymous. No shit.

>>4
I would, but Linus Torvalds and his amalmagated faggotry designed a computer operating system that is incompatible with the various flavors of porn I have taken to streaming off the internets.

get firefox, or mame dude, i watch porn all the time on linux

>>6

many porn sites i use require internet explorer and windows media

>>3
Already put on drivers, after I installed SP2. Should it be the other way around?

>>7
Care to share links?

ubuntu ftw

>>10

you're absolutely right, good sir