system startup... takes WAY TOO LONG

racing87stang

Use to take my system less than a minute to get to the desktop and fully load everything... now its taking its time ... up to 8minutes so far... i just recently did a reformat and fresh install... New video card, (did it before also) and up'd to the latest bios from ABIT.. what do you guys think it could be... i have Win XP pro
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racing87stang · Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2004 4:09 am Post subject:

well i just did a complete reformat and install of winxp... and it seemed to fix the prob... i gues smaybe with the corrupt vid card or something... maybe just a bad install... alls good now...
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racing87stang · Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2004 4:59 am Post subject:

now im getting an error that has to do with the Remote Procedure Call service... and keeps shutting the comp down... help......
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racing87stang · Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2004 6:17 am Post subject:

k turns out i had a worm... and a few virus from when i connected to activate my xp... finally rebooted enough times in the past hour to get the antivirus up and killing... all is well now... thanks fellas... for umm... reading i guess
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[TN] Nathan · ALMIGHTY PWNER! Joined: 14 Feb 2002 Posts: 7406

Obviously you didn't do a full format and an install.

How else could you have gotten a virus?
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racing87stang · Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2004 1:28 pm Post subject:

yeah the first time i was just repairing the install... then it went haywire... now its all good... i did reformat twice though and the virus/worm was still there... i had some worm that caused a program to terminate or something... i read it at MSN but just as long as its gone im good...
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racing87stang · Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2004 1:32 pm Post subject:

Black Francis · Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2004 10:35 pm Post subject: Virus

Nathan you can get a virus even if you fully format the OS. Without a router which I assume he doesnt have the Welchia Worm virus will hammer your computer the second the LAN is activated. I am not sure if this is what is happening in this situation but what I described has happened to me mutliple times until I went out and bought a router. It has happened to a couple of my friends as well. There is a fix for the Welchia Worm but I am pretty sure you can become reinfected so go out and buy a router. The router completely eliminated this problem.
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