WinNT Workstation Slow Boot

[Michael Sauers]

I have a WinNT Workstation 4.0sp5 machine that has been freezing lately,
though usually only for matter of second and then catching back up.

Unfortunately yesterday afternoon it froze for what seems like the last
time. I turned it off, and started it up again after a few minutes. On the
first blue screen is offers the "yes, I'm loading" dots but these take about
five minutes to all appear. I then get the WinNT splash screen. At this
point it either stops permantely again or continues on to the music and some
of the icons, at which point it freezes again. This whole process may take
as long as 15 minutes.

The machine is a P2 233 w/ 96mb RAM.  I'm about to reinstall NT (luckily all
the data is on the D drive.) Anyone have any ideas before I do something so
drastic?

Please e-mail me off list. Thanks!

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