Scandisk at every startup

[peterwilkes]

Hi, I have Windows XP Pro (not SP1) on my system with a single partitioned drive. Every time I start the computer the drive checking program comes up and wants to check the C drive (operating system only) for errors. It never finds any errors and when it has finished the system reboots and loads normally to the logon screen.

If I press any key to cancel the check the system appears to boot but the mouse does not work. I have tried the mouse both with USB and PS/2 ports with the same results.

The system works fine when it does boot. This is annoying as the system takes almost 3 mins to boot up instead or about 40 seconds!

System specs as follows...

AMD Athlon XP2500+ @ 210x10 = 2100 Mhz @ 1.725v)
Asus A7N8X Deluxe Rev 2.0 Bios 1007
Maxtor 120 Gb SATA HDD
2 x 512Mb PC3200 Crucial RAM

Any help greatly appreciated!

Peter

[TOAD6147]

Do you shut it down properly?

[adam-red]

I had a similar problem, and memtest86 found a problem with one of my memory sticks. Run that.

[peterwilkes]

The system shuts down fine all the time. It has been doing it for the last 6 months or so and since then I have upgraded the RAM.

Anyway, The system runs Prime 95 and Memtes86 for 24 hrs solid with no probs at the above speed. The mobo has been recently replaced (faulty onboard LAN) but that made no difference.

This is definetly a software problem as it used to do it on my old Athlon 700 Mhz with 384 Mb of RAM and a 30 Gb HDD.

Is there even a way of turning this off and just ignoring the problem?

[Welshie]

Originally posted by peterwilkes
The system shuts down fine all the time. It has been doing it for the last 6 months or so and since then I have upgraded the RAM.

Anyway, The system runs Prime 95 and Memtes86 for 24 hrs solid with no probs at the above speed. The mobo has been recently replaced (faulty onboard LAN) but that made no difference.

This is definetly a software problem as it used to do it on my old Athlon 700 Mhz with 384 Mb of RAM and a 30 Gb HDD.

Is there even a way of turning this off and just ignoring the problem?

Dunno if this helps but I think you can disable using regedit under the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Contro l\Session Manager
Change the BootExecute entry from:
autocheck autochk * /r\DosDevice\C:
To:
autocheck autochk * i.e. delete the /r\DosDevice\C: part.

Please post and let me know if it worked !

[peterwilkes]

Welshie, I found the key but it is already set to autocheck autochk *

Is this because the system has booted as normal and therefore did not want to do a disk check? Maybe if I somehow looked in the registry on the first boot, would it be there?

There is current control set, controlset001 and controlset002 folders and they are all the same.

LATEST NEWS ! - Fixed it !!!! - Just deleted the whole contents of the box in the above key, worked fine.

Thanks for everyones help, especially welshie for pointing me in the right direction

[Welshie]

You're welcome - glad to be of help