Yes, I forgot to mention that was the first thing I tried was to
install the driver. Windows said it was unable to find a driver for
it.
After reading your next answer I went out and looked at that link and
I think I will try to un-install SP2 and then re-install it and see it
that helps. If that does not work I guess I will try to delete that
driver and see what happens just like the article says.
Thanks for your help.
On Tue, 5 Dec 2006 16:25:01 -0800, Anne Bonny
<AnneBonny DeleteThis @discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>Have you tried to reinstall the driver for this device?
>
>"Ralph" wrote:
>
>> I loaded Microsoft Windows XP Pro on a new system. Everything seemed
>> to go fine. I loaded all the Windows updates including SP2. After
>> loading all the updates the system hangs during boot time for
>> approximately two minutes with a blue screen showing the Windows logo
>> and the message "Windows is starting up...." While I was trouble
>> shooting this problem I noticed that there is an item in the System
>> Devices portion of the Device Manager (Properties of My
>> Computer>Hardware Tab>Device Manager>System Devices> Microsoft System
>> Management Bios Driver) that has a yellow circle by it with a black
>> explanation point of something similar in it. When I clicked on this
>> item and then on the General tab of the next screen I found the
>> message "Windows cannot load the Device Driver for this hardware. The
>> driver may be corrupt or missing.
>>
>> When I googled the statement about the System management BIOS Driver I
>> saw some conversation about this causing slow boot up and that this
>> was only a problem after SP2 was loaded. I am running SP2 on 3 other
>> machines and have never had this problem nor the slow boot.
>>
>> Any and all help would be appreciated.
>> >> Stay informed about: Microsoft System Management Bios Drive 
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