every since i installed my sound card it goes to the windows loading bar does that then switches to a black screen for around 3 mins then boot into logon screen this is really stupid because its not a slow system its a trust 5.1 sound expert optical any1 got any ideas ???? ???

Can you try different drivers? That sounds like a driver problem. I've heard sometimes with faulty drivers, at bootup the OS tries to load real-mode drivers which slow bootup considerably. These aren't necessary for the most part, but i'm not 100% sure how to fix this besides trying different drivers. Hopefuly someone here has another soluton you cna try. I would think defragging your HDD might improve bootup somewhat if you've never done it as well.

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