K8N Neo2 slow boot

machine is a MSI K8N Neo Platinum with a 3500+ cpu, 1 gig hyper x PC3500, 9800pro, audigy2, seagate 120gig.
Problem is after I installed the nvidia platform drivers it started to have a slow boot problem.  I have xp set to the SOS boot, and the blue screen where it shows cpu and memory count it just sits there with no hard drive activity for about 1 min, then the hard drive starts flashing and it boots normally.   Any idea why it would pause like that?  I'm thinking driver issue but then more people would have this too.  I tried dumping xp and reloading, but using a different order of install,  I previously installed xp, then SP2 then the nvidia drivers.   Anyone else heard of this?

Yes Fine found it non of the these boot options checked on mine. Just Found it in Help:- Quote
/so
Adds the /sos switch to the specified OSEntryLineNum, directing the operating system to display device driver names while they are being loaded.
There u go didnt know that
in your place i think id go back to the original XP drivers, as i said earlier there have been some issues with the NVIDIA Ide Drivers. No one seems to have percieved any performane issue (other than 1 works t'other dont)
Dont think its to do with the order of install, which can be made easier by slipsteaming SP2 (A forum search will give u some useful links for this). The order youve taken emulates that anyway.
Other People have played with the Master/Slave configuration on all drives, it seems that the Nvidia drivers dont always work with the Auto CLS setting
best of luck

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