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?

[MTUSUPPORT]

I have never done a Repair to tell you the truth, as I don't believe in using this feature from Microsoft. I also format the system and start over when I have a problem such as this.

Probably what happened is that there is som many registry entries that were repaired from the Windows repair, caused this to slow the system down so much.

I would almost recommend formatting the system and starting over by this way. This is the only way to keep your system clean and running as fast as new.

There are no tweaks that I do to speed up the systems boot time.

[flipper]

Thanks for your reply. I will probably do the reformat when I have the time.
Everything is running just fine. Just slow to boot.