Windows XP Repair

[flipper]

Had a major disaster with my Portable PC last thursday night at my show. During the boot up phase (about 1/2 way) I had a power loss in the circuit that my system was plugged into. I rebooted and I got a black screen that said the windows\system32\config system file was lost or corrupt. Could not get the system rebooted. Luckily I had my laptop in the van and was able to get the show running anyway.

I went home after my show and rebooted the system. Same message came up and it suggested a repair with the original XP disc. So I did the repair it took about 50 minutes and everything was running fine except 2 things.

1. When I plug into the soundblaster card jack I get no sound. If I plug into the original plug on the opposite side of the MTU portable PC I get sound. Perhaps this is a driver issue?

2. The time that it takes the system to boot up in XP is about 2-1/2 min now versus about 30 seconds before this system repair. Can't figure out why. MTU did the original setup of XP could there be a factory setting that allows an expidited boot up?