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gryhnd:
Have you checked your drive integrity? I had a machine that took flippin' forever to boot. Turns out the drive was failing and it had been remapping sectors all over the place.  All that drive seek time adds up.

BadMouth:
Lots of good info:
http://www.blackviper.com/WinXP/supertweaks.htm

Jack Burton:
What are the specs on this machine?

From a cold boot, including the BIOS post screens and what not that doesn't sound too bad for your average PC.

I don't know, sub-2 minutes sounds just fine to me. :P

newmanfamilyvlogs:
I had a P4 I was toying around with... all reclaimed hardware. Got tinyxp booting in 35 seconds to desktop including POST. This was using a 5400 rpm laptop harddrive as well. It can be done.

tony.silveira:
to answer some of the questions:

1. BIOS only looks for my one HD, it does not do a floppy/cd seek

2. i do notice my BIOS takes about 3 seconds checking RAM.  i tried turning this off in the BIOS but don't see anything listed to skip this check.

3. i am in the process of checking my drive with spinrite.  so far, all my defragging and other drive checks (with other software) have shown it to be ok

4. my specs are at the end of my first post but here they are again (an above average machine i think):

lanparty jr p45 mobo
core 2 duo 8500 o/c to 4ghz
4gb ddr2 (bios settings are set to correct RAM speed)
80gb 7200rpm UATA-100 boot drive

running bootvis, i am noticing activity on my second 500gb drive during boot and i traced that to where i have xpadder, which starts when windows loads.  i'll try moving that app to my C drive to see if that shaves some time off

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