Insanely slow boot up and laggy when starts PC

johntmanic

johntmanic

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Hi people,

From out of nowhere my PC has gone insanely slow - it takes around 5-10 mins to boot and once I'm within windows it's really laggy?

I've formatted the HD and reinstalled Windows 8.1 to no avail so there can't be any virus' on there?

My spec is as follows:

250GB hard drive & 2TB hardrive,
AMD FX4300 quad,
HD7870 Graphics card ( xfx black edition ),
960GM/U3S3 FX motherboard
8GB DDR3 ballistix traceer RAM

As it is a fresh install of Windows there are no start up programmes - it just seems to hang at the Windows icon for a long time before going to the desktop?

Does anyone know why it would be doing this? Should I buy a copy of Windows 7 and use that?

Thanks a lot!
 
Swarfega said:
Any USB storage devices connected? Remove them. If that 2TB is internal disconnect it to see if that makes a difference. Sometimes if a drive is on its way out Windows will hang as it attempts to read from the disc.

Don't waste money on Windows it's not that.
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Thanks for that I'll try that tonight and just boot with the 250GB hard drive?

When I get it up and running I go into task manager and it says that disk is at 50% but when I click on it it's at 100% constantly?
 
ThaReaperGuy said:
Sounds like the disk is playing up, and being overloaded when booting up & doing normal reads/writes. Try your alternative HDD with a fresh install & with the other taken out of the PC.
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Does it sound like the 250GB hard drive is on it's way out? - The 2TB is only there as back up at the minute for all my pics, video's and work stuff? Would the back up drive interfere with the boot up process if it was on it's way out?
 
wazza300 said:
replace it with a 250gb ssd,it be fast as hell,keep old hdd for extra storage

hdd's are always gonna be slow at loading up
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I've just been to the guy near my work as he has a PC shop and he said it sounds like the hard drive as when it boots it shouldn't be looking at the back up drive!

He also said get an SSD drive so I'm going to pick one up late! I presume it's the same set up as a standard hard drive? I've never dealt with them before?
 
I'll have a look into that thanks!

When I've been looking into SDD drives some people have said not to load PC games onto them as it shortens their lives - is that right?
 
Cheers for that! I'll be happy with BF4 on there and stick all my steam games - i.e. HL2, CS:Go on the other drive! That's the only 3 games I play if I'm being honest?
 
**Quick Update**

I went ahead and bought the Samsung 120GB SSD 840 EVO SATA drive last night - installed it and everything was rapid, the start up and shut downs (even though I had it plugged into a SATA 2 port until Samsung Magician told me) plugged it into a SATA 3 port and I've never seen a PC boot up and shut down as quick in my life!
Very impressed so far!
 
Swarfega said:
Did you make sure your using AHCI mode in the BIOS? Needs turning on before you install Windows although a reg hack has worked for me in the past.
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Yeah it's set as AHCI in bios - someone posted above to do that and as windows is booting it says what drives are installed etc. It was just when I installed the Samsung software it says it's in a SATA 2 port and not 3 so I downloaded the motherboard manual and found where they are! :)
 
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