Resolved Boot.ini - Normal Halt - Acronis Restore Image concerns

Friend brought his HP/Compaq desktop XP/sp3 over. Will be installing Acronis and teaching him how to create image backups.
I was cleaning up drive and rebooting, I notice a halt screen during boot. During a normal cold or restart boot, screen briefly displays a Compaq slash view with Cmd key options, then it goes into a 30 second count down "Halt" view. It allows user to choose "Normal windows" start up OR load "Windows Recovery Console ". It defaults to "Normal" load and you can hit enter. Also you can let go through 30 sec timer and it will "auto-load' default Normal windows ". It always successfully loads XP, been doing it for 3 years.
My concerns is with restoring a Acronis Image backup. I have no idea how Acronis will manage this ... successful or fail due (possible may think it is a dual-boot or some unknown) to this unusual "Normal" start up. I would like to remove this from Boot.ini script. Never been in Boot.ini environment. Not sure of myself and what to do. I taken screen pics via "System Configuration Utility ". Please look at the last 2x Lines (2nd Pic gives you last words of string). When I high light phrases and click "Check all boot Paths ", windows says it's invalid and offers to clean it up (I cancel). Would like to get this Boot.ini to a standard script, which I know Acronis Restore will have no problem working with ... just not sure how to go about it.

Thanks
Dennis L

 

Thanks Steve ...

Check BIOS before posting. Nothing jump out at me. It is a sparse
BIOS, not to many options. Set Boot order, enable/disable board graphics and a few more settings. Will go back in and see if I can find something. My suspicions would be a setting hiding some where in setup/startup/repair in HP programs

 

Steve ran into this in Bing .. Any suggestions in HOW to uninstall it??

 

THANKS Pete
Was a little nerve racking ... but all went well.
First I tried a warm boot, then a cold boot, both worked fine.
Cut out 45 seconds on boot-up time.
Feel much more comfortable for successful Acronis image restores.
Thanks again.

Dennis L