Newly occuring boot problem

Jackaby

Jackaby

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So last night, Steam was crashing rather consistently so I decided to restart my PC - being lazy I pressed the restart button on the case as it always restarts quicker than doing it manually.

As per usual I went to "Start windows normally", but it hung at that screen for a few minutes...so I restarted again...same thing. So I did a third restart and did the windows repair which worked. PC restarted itself, and then came to starting windows again and it just hung - I decided to go and make a cup of tea and see if it had loaded by the time I came back.

This time round, it had booted into windows, but must have been a good 5 mins or so...my usual boot speed before this was about 12-14 seconds or so.

I have NO idea what's going on, and the PC seems totally normal once I'm on it...just the booting that's changed, and help would be GREATLY appreciated.

SYSTEM SPECS:
128GB OCZ Vertex SSD
1TB WD CB Storage Drive
Asrock Extreme 4 Gen 3 Mobo
Gigabyte GTX 580 3gb
8GB Corsair vengeance RAM
i7 2600k @ stock
Corsair 850w PSU
 
ok for a start, stop restarting your computer like that, it will damage files and cause you problems, don't be lazy restart it proper (i have had to drill this into my daughter who also likes to use the reset button)

When your in windows goto start/run type in cmd and open it with admin privs then type in sfc /scannow hit enter and let it check to make sure all files are ok.
 
Dude, you have a SSD, your PC should be rebooting pretty quickly, id avoid pressing the reset button, can cause all sorts of problems with your Windows install.
 
boot from a CD like: hiren's boot CD, go into NC in DOS prompt or other file manager and delete the pagefile. reboot and you should be ok!

the bloody pagefile usually creates these problems when you reboot like that as pages from memory get saved and when you reboot windows tries to re-read those out of the pagefile and then crashes your boot sequence

you can even try and disable the pagefile. i think it is of no use whatsoever anyway. i have tried to explain this on the memory section but people said it is not true, ... although nobody gave me a clear reason WHY! :)

what was said above about hard resenting is true if you want to avoid these things but I have seen many windows load going wrong out of nowhere...

I fixed numerous windows version from 95 to ME, XP or w7 over the years like this that wouldn't boot after resets or KB updates ...
 
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linwelin said:
ok for a start, stop restarting your computer like that, it will damage files and cause you problems, don't be lazy restart it proper (i have had to drill this into my daughter who also likes to use the reset button)

When your in windows goto start/run type in cmd and open it with admin privs then type in sfc /scannow hit enter and let it check to make sure all files are ok.
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Yeah, certainly wont be restarting like that again. I did the sfc /scannow and it repaired a file, restarted, but the boot still took about 3 minutes. However I'm sure it can't be broken. Otherwise it wouldn't boot atall?

EDIT: Even just tried a restore - still have **** poor boot speed.
 
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Jackaby said:
Yeah, certainly wont be restarting like that again. I did the sfc /scannow and it repaired a file, restarted, but the boot still took about 3 minutes. However I'm sure it can't be broken. Otherwise it wouldn't boot atall?

EDIT: Even just tried a restore - still have **** poor boot speed.
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mate, did u try deleting the pagefile ?
 
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