my pc is taking like 3 hours from the second i press the power button to getting to the windows logon


im using windows XP
intel pentium 4 2.8Ghz
384Mb RAM

it seems to take forever to find the USB devices and iv changed the bios so it doesn't, but still it tries to find them

any help much appreaciated

too add, when i FINALLY log onto windows it works BEAutifully all the icons come up almost instantly and everything works well, iv ran a full virus and spyware scan using norton and microsoft defender

as before any help much appreaciated

Hey oli!
Welcome to PC Helpforum!

What's taking so much time to start-up? Do you see the Windows screen, or your BIOS screen? Or maybe a black screen?

Have you tried starting up with only the necessary stuff connected to your PC? Both outside and maybe inside?

Blue

wen i press the power button it does the 1st few checks ( HDD FDD CD0 fine but the USB devices it takes forever to find so i tried to set it so the bios doesnt look for them tihnking it would skip that bit but it doesnt

i mean iv taken all the usb devices out and tried bootin up again n still takes 4ever

navigate to device manage and see if there are any errors.

nuthing appears to have errors all the usb devices seem fine,

but the bios keeps trying to find the "generic USB Storage 1: CFC
2:MMC
3:MSC
4:SMC USB device"
and thats what takes forever and a day lol but after it gets past that *cough*3hours later*cough* it seems to be ok