Floppy Drive causing slow boot up?

Recently my computer has been booting quite slowly...it used to be almost instantaneous that after i logged in i could do any task...

but as of about a month ago i just noticed that the computer speeds up AFTER it makes this noise...its sort of weird but i didn't really notice at first. But now i can regonise it! Its the sound of the floppy drive when it firsts activates or whatever on bootup! I'm pretty sure its the floppy drive now as the light flashes on it during the noise and almost straight after the computer speeds up and runs like it used to!!!

I don't particually want to disconnect the floppy drive as i do use it every now and again...So any ideas anyone on stopping this or working around it? or just general ideas about this?

P.S. Might try and do a boot with it disconnected and see if it makes a difference (will be sure to report back what happens)

 

take the floppy out to c if thats the problem

 

Unpluged the floppy from the motherboard and power supply...boot up takes longer than ever but the noise it makes has stopped...if i look at my computer the floppy drive is still there dispite it not being connected in any way to the computer...possible i need to remove the drivers or something for it? does this elminiate the floppy from the problem?

 

since ure saying it takes longer to boot try disbling the floppy in the bios (even though its not conected, it still apears)

 

Disabled it in the bios seems to take even longer now!!!

Might reconnect it and re-enable it in bios as its taking so long!!

Unless anyone got any ideas about this?

 

Can you give us some system specs? Were does it take the longest at the windows xp loading part? At the posting screen??

 

is your comp trying to boot through the floppy? if so disable floppy bootable in your bios

 

Will have a look at bios...might be floppy bootable- could you tell me where that is in Bios as i don't know that much about it to be honest.

lecisy: Windows XP Pro SP2 all updates, 3.4ghz Intel P4 HT, 512mbs RAM, nVidia 6600GT 512mbs. Don't say its the RAM as it was working before with that ammount.

It takes the longest after i log in and the Start bar at the bottom sort of frezzes, you cant click on it or anything if you move mouse over it it gives you the loading cusror,

I looked at the system processes during the boot up and i noticed svchost.exe was running like 10 times and using about 50mbs of memory and at peak using about 50 CPU...and after its finished it carrys on running but uses very little memory or CPU but after its finished spiking in activity the start bar becomes active.

I think svchost is a check up of your system on boot up but i don't know.

could it be i have to many things on start up?

 

Try:

Start > Run > msconfig (type that) > startup > Disable all the ones that your sure are not necessary.

If unsure what they are google them!

 

Ok i did that and disabled all the ones that i didn't need and looked up the ones i wasn't sure about...
Whilst i was there there where two which were just blank...each section was just white space...is it ok to disable them?

Will reboot later and say if i made any difference

 

Yep tyr disabiling the balnk ones!

Tell us how it goes!

 

Woah!

MUCH MUCH MUCH faster!!! The bar at the bottom doesn't even lag!

Still not "good to go" soon as it loads up but it never was in the first place...

Anyway i will settle for this as i only turned it on like 60 seconds ago and i am typing this (would be like 3mins usally)

Will it be safe to re-enable in bios and re-connect the floppy drive now
without affecting start up time?

 

Yep that shouldnt cause a problem!

Glad to hear we got you up and running!!!!

Any more problems you know were to come!

Lecsiy

 

Ok thanks will do,

will report back let you know if it slowed it down etc...

might try disable some more things.....

 

Just turned my computer on and it took possably the longest time ever before it was usable! I seriously think its something to do with svchost.exe in my processes as it was using over 200mbs or RAM and also like 60% of my processor!

Everything is still disabled...does anyone know about this svchost.exe thing? I believe its something to do with Windows but i dunno what? Is there anyway i can disable it safely or something similar? Thanks in advance

 

Hey dude!

Svchost is a windows application. However many hackers use the name svchost for there viruses soo it could be that.

Read this should give you a good ol read:

http://www.liutilities.com/products/wintaskspro/processlibrary/svchost/

 

Hmmm..ok should i run the "Run a Free System Scan for svchost.exe Related Errors" link scanner?

It's running 6 times should it be?
1 is under LOCAL SERVICE
2 are under NETWORK SERVICE
3 are under SYSTEM

Thanks

EDIT: Was just looking on the Microsoft website about svchost.exe and it said this:

If it checks the registry at startup and if for me its taking a long time and using a lot of memory and CPU could that mean i need to clean out my registry? Could you reccomend a program to do this?

 

I downloaded and installed the "free scan" link on the page you gave me and did a scan. It apparently found 1302 errors or something around that, so i told it to repair and thing and does seem to have made a slight difference but hardly noticable...

 

Ahh well if i were you.

Download a programme called hijackTHIS (Google it)

Then go to the windows virus forum on AD. And post your log. Theyl tell you wether your clean or not.

Explain your problem and point them to this thread.

 

Naw i did that like last week-ish

http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/367114

Also none of my other scans are picking up anything which they usually do.They even when i had w32.myzor.FK@yf which most AntiViruses still don't pick up