help me analyze bootlog time printout

[John Prophet]

My friends computer is taking 4 minutes to boot...it didnt used to take that long.

Its a WinME comp.

I used this program http://www.vision4.dial.pipex.com/ which is a cool boot time analyzer...it shows the time at each point.



See the attachment....

it is ok then at the one point it takes like 3 minutes at the one point....enumerating software??


Can someone help us out here?


What can she do to fix it? What about reloading windows over the top?? If she did that would she need to look up a bunch of drivers?? Id rather her not have to do that.....I think it would find the old drivers though etc.





Thanks, JP

[golfcart]

It looks to me like the previous entry is the one causing trouble. You might try reinstalling the ac97 sound driver

[John Prophet]

ok, maybe that attachment is unreadable


the two entires that are causing issues, from what it looks like are

-----> these 4 together are taking 34 seconds---> Enumerating Microsoft Kernel System Audio Renderer (SW\{A7C7A5B0-5AF3-11D1-9CED-00A024BF0407}\{9B365890-165F-11D0-A195-0020AFD156E4})

[0013FE8D] Enumerated Microsoft Kernel System Audio Renderer (SW\{A7C7A5B0-5AF3-11D1-9CED-00A024BF0407}\{9B365890-165F-11D0-A195-0020AFD156E4})

[0013FE8D] Enumerating Microsoft Kernel Audio Mixer (SW\{B7EAFDC0-A680-11D0-96D8-00AA0051E51D}\{9B365890-165F-11D0-A195-0020AFD156E4})

[0013FE8D] Enumerated Microsoft Kernel Audio Mixer (SW\{B7EAFDC0-A680-11D0-96D8-00AA0051E51D}\{9B365890-165F-11D0-A195-0020AFD156E4

and this one is taking a whopping 144 seconds

[00140105] Enumerating Microsoft Kernel System Audio Renderer (SW\{A7C7A5B0-5AF3-11D1-9CED-00A024BF0407}\{9B365890-165F-11D0-A195-0020AFD156E4})

[00140105] Enumerated Microsoft Kernel System Audio Renderer (SW\{A7C7A5B0-5AF3-11D1-9CED-00A024BF0407}\{9B365890-165F-11D0-A195-0020AFD156E4})


so does she need to reinstall sound drivers or something??

[John Prophet]

Ok, she has a via ac97 (wdm) Audio controller...so is that just part of the 4in1 drivers?? or is it seperate?

[golfcart]

It's separate from the 4-in-1 drivers. I think you can get a generic driver from via, but it's probably best to get it from the mobo manufacturer's site

[John Prophet]

ok, I found the generics...where gonna try that....might be hard to figure out exact mobo, thanks

[golfcart]

Let us know if it works. That's a cool app you found too

[John Prophet]

didnt work, gave error 105 about install language not found

am trying to find mobo brand now, lol....from a couple thousand miles away, lol

[John Prophet]

http://www.pcchips.com.tw/M787CLR.html

no wonder its not a fast machine, lol

where does pc chips hide drivers now? (I found em)