Re: XP Home PC - reboots after coming out of hibernation


"Martin Underwood" <news@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Philip Herlihy wrote in
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> >> Has anyone else had problems with an XP Home PC rebooting after it
> >> comes out of hibernation?
>
>
> One thing I meant to say when I originally described the rebooting: I
> checked the Event Log and nothing shows up there that would explain the
> reboots. The only critical events in System log are occasional messages
from
> the Windows Browser (the thing that keeps track of all the PC names on the
> network) saying that the Browser has forced an election. But these don't
> necessarily correspond to the times when the PC rebooted, so they are
> probably a red herring.
>
>
> >> My XP Home desktop PC takes so long to boot up that I've started
> >> shutting it down into hibernation rather than completely shutting it
> >> down.
>
>
> > If it takes such a long time to boot up then there must be a lot of
> > stuff being loaded (unless you're very low on memory or have a very
> > slow disk). Try running Autoruns from Sysinternals (free) to get a
> > list (usually an astonishingly long one) of what's being run "for
> > you". Their Process Explorer (also free) is also a good view on
> > what's running at any one time, like a Task Manager on steroids.
>
> I'll have a look at this. I've already checked the Run keys in HKLM and
HKCU
> in the registry, and the Startup folder in Start Menu, and there's nothing
> that looks untoward. I've also run Norton virus scans and AdAware spyware
> scans, and these show it's clean.
>
> The PC takes about 5 minutes to boot up (from power-on until all apps
> started in the system tray next to the clock). One thing I've noticed
> recently is that the number of icons in the system tray is much less that
it
> used to be: for example Windows Mixer (grey loudspeaker icon) is no longer
> displayed. At one stage, even essential icons like Norton AntiVirus and
> Internet Security weren't displaying, which made me wonder whether my PC
was
> protected by these. Thankfully the Norton icons seem to have rectified
> themselves.
>
> The long boot times and the reduction in the number of system tray icons
may
> have started round about the time that I updated the graphics card drivers
> and associated video-capture drivers (ATI All-in-Wonder), but I'm not sure
> about that. And I really can't be arsed to go through the hassle of
> uninstalling the drivers and installing older ones, given the hassle and
the
> number of reboots that I had to go through to get the new drivers and
> software to install and not to show up as unknown device in Device
Manager.
>
> Once the PC is booted, it generally runs at a respectable speed, although
> sometimes there seems to be an incredible amount of disk thrashing, with a
> corresponding slowing/stopping of desktop apps. Even at this time, Task
> Manager (assuming the PC will respond to Ctrl-Alt-Del to bring it up)
shows
> reasonably sensible results: on the Performance tab***, the Available
> memory never drops below about 100 MB. On other, really slow PCs, I've
seen
> this drop to about 20 MB, but then they generally have had very little RAM
> (eg 128 MB). My PC has 512 MB. Similarly the swap file size is not
> excessive - typically around 200-300 MB. On the Processes tab***, there
> aren't any processes that are consuming vast proportions of CPU or vast
> amounts of memory, and the overall CPU usage isn't maxed-out at 100%.
>
> Anyway I'll try Autoruns and see if anything dodgy shows up.

Hi Martin,

I've had some similar problems and can give you some pointers which
*may* help:
o Missing systray icons - try a quick logout and login - I bet they come
back until your next reboot. An XP update fixed this for me for a
while, but it came back (I think when Radeon drivers were updated..)
o Radeon drivers - I installed the latest for my AIW 9800 and boot
time increased as well as the screen blanking several times before
the desktop was fully up. The cure for me was to uninstall the .NET
version of the ATI control panel and install the non-.NET version,
which is a bit further down the ATI download page.
o Disable any unused network ports in XP's Device Manager - each
one that isn't connected will add about 30 secs to boot time while
XP searches for a DHCP server.

HTH,
--
Rob





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