Extremely long vista boot times

kiteboarderni · 5 Feb 2008 at 23:53

This is taking the mick now with boot times hitting th 10min mark. i have no spyware or adware or viruses.

My system is 2gb ddr 2 pc-8500 ram
600W PSU
INtel core 2 duo Q6600 OCd slightly

I have no idea why, i dont have many startup programs and its only happened lately.

i have suspicions on the HDD (300GB SATA2)

Any help would be great!

VortexA1 · 6 Feb 2008 at 02:20

have you tried safe mode to see if it's quicker - if it is then it could be a driver issue.

BENdage · 6 Feb 2008 at 07:48

I suspect its a driver issue. Have you tried using bootvis to record your boot and see what is taking the time?

skanky · 6 Feb 2008 at 08:09

BENdage said:
I suspect its a driver issue. Have you tried using bootvis to record your boot and see what is taking the time?

he probably would, if bootvis was vista compatible...

at what point is it seemingly hanging, before login or after?

kiteboarderni · 6 Feb 2008 at 19:05

it depends, i disabled start up programs and it sped it back up, however when loaded to the main desktop a lot of lag occured, the programs took agess to loads EG firefox and msn. also it randomly locks up during games/normal browsing. for mayby 10 seconds at a time. any ideas guy!

VortexA1 · 7 Feb 2008 at 13:48

Have you done a hard drive diagnostic if you suspect its the Hdd?

Senture · 7 Feb 2008 at 13:50

Have you checked to see if the drive is using DMA and not in PIO mode? That has been known to happen.

wolvers · 7 Feb 2008 at 15:30

kiteboarderni said:
it depends, i disabled start up programs and it sped it back up, however when loaded to the main desktop a lot of lag occured, the programs took agess to loads EG firefox and msn. also it randomly locks up during games/normal browsing. for mayby 10 seconds at a time. any ideas guy!

Mine does something like this. It boots to the desktop ok but then takes 2mins or so to initialise a network connection and load start up programs (like rivatuner) and you can't open any programs until it's finished doing this. Very frustrating when overclocking.

wolvers · 7 Feb 2008 at 15:32

kiteboarderni said:
This is taking the mick now with boot times hitting th 10min mark. i have no spyware or adware or viruses.

My system is 2gb ddr 2 pc-8500 ram
600W PSU
INtel core 2 duo Q6600 OCd slightly

I have no idea why, i dont have many startup programs and its only happened lately.

i have suspicions on the HDD (300GB SATA2)

Any help would be great!

Maybe your overclock isn't that stable cos you say it locks up briefly?