Boot up time slow - or is it

SexyGreyFox

SexyGreyFox

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My PC stays on 24/7 and I only reboot when absolutely needed BUT I think a time of 44 seconds to get to the first Windows booting sign is a bit slow compared to the other 3 PC's in my house that get there in under 10 seconds. I'm not bothered after that because I have so many things loaded I know its going to drag a bit.

My mobo is an ASUS P5AD2 with 2 gig DDR2 and a P4 3.6.

Any ideas?
 
my old system used to be the same till the cd drive died, changed it and booted up in 1/4 of the time!! Try disconnecting all non essentials and see how long it takes to boot up then could be conflicting hardware or maybe a fresh install is needed???
 
This is before windows kicks in.
It is taking 44 secs just for the BIOS to kick in to the start of windows loading.

Dale1uk is closer to the answer because you wouldn't believe how much stuff I've got plugged in.
 
Like i said mine just came from a dodgy cd drive, after I replaced it with a new one it still booted up quickly. Now I've got the raptor tho its quicker still!!
 
Enable Quick memory testing (sometimes called Quick boot or disable Full Memory Test), also in BIOS disable any controllers (esp RAID) that you can't using (you could also disable any IDE channels you aren't using), disable LAN ROM (only needed for Wake up on LAN or PXE). If it's spending a lot of time at BIOS, it seems to suggest that it has a problem reading a bit of hardware (most likely HDD or Optical device) so find out where it stalls at then report back and see what we can make of it.
 
My old SLI-D used to take ages to POST after several BIOS flashes, don't know if you've done that lately but could be the cause.
 
Sorry, worded that badly, what I meant was it posted slowly AFTER I flashed the BIOS several times, i.e. I hosed the board with a dodgy falsh.
 
SATA Drivers ?

Sorry but I 'm not familiar with the mobo but I had a problem like yours which was solved by simply downloading and installing the latest all in one driver which included SATA. It cut my Windows logo up time from circa 50 sec to 10.

Good luck.
 
Solved my 'problem' by solving another.
Last friday (13th) I bought a 400 gig WD hard drive from OCUK.
The installation went fine and I copied three drives worth of stuff over to it.
It was on thursday that I noticed that something wan't right as though my DVD writer was flashing because the data couldn't keep up with it. We used to have this problem a lot in the old days of 1x, 2x and 4 x writers.
I downloaded a useful little utility called HD_Speed and it clocked my C:\drive at 54 mbps but my new drive at 3 mbps :eek:
All I did was to get out a new SATA cable and plugged it into another SATA port on the mobo and now its reading at 62 mbps (faster than my Raptor?!?).
My BIOS always stopped at the part where it shows your EIDE drives (and for some reason it still only shows one of my CD-Roms) but it now flies past it.
Obviously the BIOS was looking for the SATA drive but something was not quite right even though the speed always seemed OK on the other drive.

Thanks
 
Have 2 minor problems (annoyances more than anything) with my motherboard, first of all for some reason i need to press F1 for it to start loading windows... HD is set to primary boot, using s-ata4 (i am overclocking), tried with S.M.A.R.T enabled and disabled etc.
Also it takes ages to load windows itself, much slower than my old 2500+ (although it flies when in windows)
Motherboard is the EPoX 9NPAJ SLI and my HD is a samsung 160gb s-ata2.

Sorry for hijacking just thought it would be easier thana new thread, also how the hell do you find out what your current motherboard drivers are as that may be the problem to the slow loading?
Cheers.
 
Pressing F1 to boot is something i've had when it cant find the default HDD (maybe boot.ini?) its supposed to boot from...

Also, does your mobo support SATA-II, if not you may need to set a jumper on that Samsung drive to use SATAI.

M
 
noxidjkram@hotm said:
Pressing F1 to boot is something i've had when it cant find the default HDD (maybe boot.ini?) its supposed to boot from...

Also, does your mobo support SATA-II, if not you may need to set a jumper on that Samsung drive to use SATAI.

M
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Good point, but thats the only HD and is set to the primary boot device and the mobo supports S-ata2.

Oh well, guess i'll have to live with it, it doesnt go off very often anyway
 
Raikiri said:
Good point, but thats the only HD and is set to the primary boot device and the mobo supports S-ata2.

Oh well, guess i'll have to live with it, it doesnt go off very often anyway
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Damn annoying tho mate - i hate unresolved things like that!

I'm suffering slow boots with my Samsung where it just pauses for 30secs on Windows boot - then as soon as i hear it start reading from drive its booted up in 10secs. It didnt pause like that with my Raptors, so i think its related to the Samsung.

I can't figure whats going on. Might try setting that jumper myself, as my board only supports SATAI.

M
 
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