Windows Intermittently Freezes During Startup

jakebrown5jakebrown5
edited March 2004 in Science & Tech
Hello,

I am running Windows 98. When it is loading the desktop, the hard drive just stops responding for a couple of seconds, along with the mouse. It's like it freezes on and off for about 30 seconds. This has been happening for as long as I can remember. It is very annoying, because startup time is like 3 minutes long! When I run MSCONFIG, and disable all of my startup programs, it still happens, so I know that it is not being caused by a curropt program or something. PLEASE HELP! :confused:

Comments

  • kanezfankanezfan sunny south florida Icrontian
    edited March 2004
    i hate to harp on you, but for the love of all that is sacred, why the hell are you still running windows 98 in 2004?
  • stoopidstoopid Albany, NY New
    edited March 2004
    Appears it's having issues either with a dying/defective piece of hardware or there's a driver loading/unloadnig a few times before windows either gives up or the device finally initializes... could also be a slow-to-respond LAN... my best guesses... also could be a usb device not responding in time or a usb hub hanging.

    If you have a cable modem connection, disconnect this and see if the issue still occurs, this will eliminate the LAN connection causing the slowdown.
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