24 seconds to log in to windows 10?

D1craig

D1craig

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any ideas what could be causing my windows login to take so long? i am on an SSD and it was instant when i first built the computer. this has been going on for a while and it is every time i login. not boot up, actually login. the boot is pretty fast, gets to login screen before i hit my monitor switch.

EDIT - i do malware and virus scans quite regularly. atleast once per week.
 
i dont know about all of that apart from the boot screen part. its well past that, its once ive put my password in on the windows login screen just before my desktop shows.

ill check the others now.

any tips where to look for them logs? im in event logs but there are so many options.
 
i got this at about the time of my login. says "level - warning".

A corrected hardware error has occurred.

Component: PCI Express Root Port
Error Source: Advanced Error Reporting (PCI Express)

Bus:Device:Function: 0x0:0x1C:0x0
Vendor ID:Device ID: 0x8086:0xA110
Class Code: 0x30400

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yea i use malwarebytes quite often. i done a malwarebytes and a defender scan before posting.

thats exactly what i use to do before i got the SSD. but im now use to pressing the button and logging in within 20 seconds max.
 
ok so i found the winlogon event and that is at 18:32:16 then the 1st service control manager is at 18:32:45 which is about how long it takes for the thing to stop spinning and for me to get onto the desktop.

also if this is needed - there are 4 kernel-general events between logon and service manager events.
 
motherboard and cpu
Z170n Gaming 5 gigabyte and an i5 6600k

EDIT - actually my fan was going mad halfway through the malwarebytes scan and it said the temps reached 92c but the air coming from the radiator was really cool and all of a sudden it wnet slow again and temps normalised.
 
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yes ive set it to 4.3

tbh i think that the error was a temp monitoring fault as there was no heat what so ever coming from the radiator with the fan on nearly full whack. it hasnt gone past 62 before that and tbh it barely goes over 56 when playing games. since i built the computer in january it hasnt even got to 80% of that heat.
 
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that sounds pretty bad but i have not had an issue and knew nothing of this until i viewed the event log. so i dont think it is effecting anything.
 
I think that was just a bug with the monitor or something. I have felt the air from the radiator being. Quite warm at other times and that was with temp less than 60c. It has to be just a bug because it hasn't done it since or before the reported time. I'll have a quick check of that tnite aswell but I'm doubtful there is anything wrong there. I have even ran stress tests on this thing that had my temp not go higher than 65c.
 
Gzero said:
Don't flash from Windows. Just download it and stick it near the root so you can find it easier. The built in flashing utility can read your drive, if it doesn't, find a fat32 usb stick.
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im guna stick it near the root. where is the root lol? sounds easier than the usb option.
 
Gzero said:
Don't flash from Windows. Just download it and stick it near the root so you can find it easier. The built in flashing utility can read your drive, if it doesn't, find a fat32 usb stick.
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im guna stick it near the root. where is the root lol? sounds easier than the usb option.
 
bledd. said:
93 degrees with cold air... is your pump working?
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it was a one off that seems to have been a bug in the temp reading stuff. nothing on the computer suggests them temps where correct. ive stress tested for over an hour and it doesnt pass 53C, ive performed the actions i was performing when it read those temps and it goes no where near 60C.
 
Ok back to the main point of the thread.

Since putting all my watercooling in the computer I have noticed that this doesn't happen all the time now. Maybe 1 in 3 times its logs into windows as quick as you would expect.

I didn't get around to updating the BIOS. Lot software info suggests it's really dangerous to update BIOS so I was worried. I Will get around to it soon though. Before putting it under water I never once noticed it log in as fast as would be expected.
 
I've updated the Bios. Nothing has changed. It still does it. It has grown to every single time now.

Had to install my ethernet drivers last night, didn't realise I had been using just wifi for a while and noticed I didn't have them installed. This problem stopped the next time I logged in but after that it persisted.
 
i do have geforce installed.

ill give it a go with that local account login.

EDIT - it actually is on a local account, not linked at all to my email.
 
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