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I recently purchased a refurbished t43 thinkpad 1871fu1. Now I don't think its an issue of the machine being refurbished. Just mentioned it because this means I haven't had anything on the system besides factory preinstalled software. Now I dont recall it taking this long on startup on the initial windows registration. and I proved that, by reforamatting it and reinstalling the necessary drivers from the support section of the machine. I wasn't able to notice exactly when it started taking so long to boot. But after all the windows updates it usually starts, not what it is still.  but did notice a significant boot time after the fresh install of windows. and I believe it should always boot at that speed. I have a 4 year old desktop not much faster and it boots in about 22 secs, not I know all manufacturer are different, but if anyone has any suggestions regarding this particular issue on this model let me know I would appreciate it it.
one other thing about a driver after i intsalled the intel 910 driver. when the system started up the screen would blink on and off until i disable the intel driver on startup is this normal. im pretty sure it was the intel video driver. because it looks fine after i disable it from startup the display settings are fine.

I am not sure what would fix the problem other than starting over with your XP install from Boot Camp square one. I have no such problems with Boot Camp/Win (see sig). I might have given XP a bit more room to breathe. If you don't start over, you could try a repair install of XP--i.e., install XP over XP--like upgrading. Finally, you could anticipate where you want to start up to and make the "switch" before you start up. And, incidentally, do you have an XP startup problem when you've told, it from the Mac side, to start up to XP the next time? If no problem, the there is no reason to do a repair install of XP.
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