Booting Probs ..... slow boot

[whannanna]

Im having trouble with my old PC which is now a server when it boots it boots realllllllllly slow..... the main Hd is a 30 Gb WD hd, 5400 rpm..... 40% free. no errors that scan disk can tell me and it defrags fine.

when its in the machine you turn it on... and you wait about 6 mins you get past the bios screen and it starts booting windows.



Win Xp Pro
1.6Ghz P4
512Mb SD 133 ram
30 Gb WD hd
its a server soo i can put junk on and store it. it has an addtional 3X 250 Gb Raid 0 array hooked up. Even with the array not connected or anything it does the same thing.
3X 250 WD 7200 RPM hd's

my Delema is i dont have another OS to put on the 30 Gb soo id rather not reformat. Win XP Pro is on it and i dont have the disc to it. i have a CD key. Not a Disk..... ( how this happened is beyond me) i may have lost it in my move. but i need a disk,.. and i cant go spend 229.00 at bestbuy for a new full copy
soo i need somehelp. if i can get a disk of it somewhere please i need it ,... if there is a alturnitive show me the way.

[[Neo770]]

Concidered running Linux on the server?

[whannanna]

No i have my webserver on linux this is just a server to throw junk on and my dad has to beable to understand it, he understands linux like a nerd under stands a popular girl

[muno]

Please don't swear.

Doubt it has anything to do with the os, since it's sitting at post screen for the 6 minutes.

Try loading bios defaults (or even better, see that everything is attached correctly inside the computer).
-M

[whannanna]

Sorry about the swearing,.....

everything is hooked up correctly ,.. and where can i find the bios defaults?

its a ECS P4 mobo ill find out the model.

[muno]

Usually computers have award bios, which you can enter by pressing 'del' during post.

From the main screen, on the bottom right corner there should be 'load fail-safe', 'load optimal' and 'load defaults'.
-M

[whannanna]

i got a new mobo and a new hd..... i loaded the optimal defaults on my old one and it did nothing,.... i think it bios is corrupted ... or somthing i dono ,... ill try updating bios ... new mobo is fast