Blank Screen during boot Win XP Pro

When i boot my computer (specs below) the Corecell logo comes up for a few seconds, the the screen will go blank for most of the rest of the boot. it'll go about 45 seconds with a blank screen, then finally the windows XP logo will come on the screen, then a few seconds later, the windows desktop appears. Also seems that the first 30 seconds or so of this blank screen, the hard drive LED isn't showing activity, then finally it'll kick in and the Windows XP logo shows up shortly after.
no big deal really, just wondering why i get this blank screen. We have tons of Win XP pro machines at my job, and none of them boot with this blank screen. I have seen other Win XP machines do this here and there, any ideas why?
- Kip
(just wanted to clarify what i mean by "blank". i mean black screen. video signal is being fed to the screen, just nothing but the black.)

My God! You're running XP!! Have you upgraded from 2000? Do you have any autostart program connected to an instant messaging or SQL server?
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?admit=716493758+1080242655589+28353475&threadId=204094
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;248353

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