white and black bars before windows start up

[shane.904]

my windows xp crashed this evening. i have reinstalled my windows xp now. but when i boot up my pc, the first screen that i see is a black screen with a bar at the bottom of the screen, which consists of white and black patches(like a zebra crossing). after about 10-12 mins, these black patches get filled up by white, and then the pc starts up normally. Why is this happening??

[Transfusion]

That is happening because windows is parsing the registry and major system components to check for errors-but 10-12 mins???

[Allan]

How exactly did you reinstall XP?

[shane.904]

yup. these white and black bars take 10-12 mins to disappear and then m able to see the first black screen which says windows and the normal booting of the pc starts.

and as far as the process of reinstalling windows is concerned, i inserted the windows dvd in the dvd reader, and then formatted the pc via ntfs.

is there any solution to this problem? can the boot up time be reduced somehow?

[patio]

I'm guessing you neglected to re-install all your drivers....
This has to be done anytime Win is re-installed...

MBoard chipset drivers go 1st...

[shane.904]

yes/ i've installed all my drivers. m just wondering abt the solution to my problem. is there any way to reduce this boot up time??

[patio]

As i said it's either missing drivers...or you may have issues with that HDD...
Any Yellow !!'s in Device Manager ? ?