Long Bootup - XP Home SP2

[tsinc80697]

Bootup through the BIOS is normal speed, always has been, but when it gets to the windows logo, it takes around 14 times for the blue bar to appear before it boots to windows, and even then it takes its time getting to the state where i can load programs etc.

Ive done all the usual:
virus scan
adware scan
registery clean
windows is on all performance and not looks
defrag everyday with disk keeper pro

specs :
Asus A8N SLI
XP 4000+
1.5gb RAM
Asus 6800GT
3 x 300gb HDD ( with 1 partition for windows and program files seperate )

Any help will be much appreciated as ive tried everything i can think of!

 

[feenster99]

I recently had with Windows taking ages to boot, ran BootVis and it reduced it quite a lot. Might be worth a try?

Matt

 

[tsinc80697]

just tried that, but when i rebooted and the optimization box appeared ( the website said it would take several minutes ), it said it had timed out and i had to manually defrag the drive before optimisation?

 

[OzZie]

Look on Guru3d (competitor?) for an IDE performance driver.

Edit:

Here

It only takes 1.5 bars for mine to load now with a standard 7200rpm IDE Hitachi with 3 games and apps etc.

 

[tsinc80697]

is my motherboard using VIA chipset?


:EDIT: tried bootvis again and same error appeared, ill try and upload the screenshots of what it says incase you can help!

1st popup says : http://img513.imageshack.us/img513/7038/16pt.jpg
2nd popup says : http://img511.imageshack.us/img511/4234/23zg.jpg

 

[masterk]

Uh-Oh, turn off NCQ before its too late.

This is a known issue with NF4.

 

[tsinc80697]

how and where can i turn that off then

 

[masterk]

Go into device manager, then onto the SATA controller bit just before halfway down, right click the primary one and go to settings, then turn off command queing, do the same for the secondary one, then reboot.

http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=8171 for more info.

 

[tsinc80697]

just did that, nothing changed :*(

i saw under the SATA controller properties theres a read speedtest you can do.

it says theoretical limit is 150million bytes/second
my sustained sped is 59.9million bytes/second

that bad ? or just normal for a maxtor hard drive? also has around the same speed on my WD drive aswell

 

[masterk]

Thats weird, perhaps try rebooting once to make sure, i would still put money on that being yout problem.

 

[tsinc80697]

when i do bootup i get a screen for Silicon image SII raid controller, when i dont use raid in this PC atall, can i just uninstall this from device manager ? as that would speed up the BIOS bootup part

 

[masterk]

You need to disable that in the BIOS under onboard device configuration.

Check your event log aswell for errors during the boot sequence.

 

[tsinc80697]

wheres the event log? totally forgotten, somewhere where disk management is :E


:edit:
the only error i can find in the system that might be related to the bootup, well happened at the same time as bootup is :

The OMSCAN service failed to start due to the following error:
The system cannot find the file specified.

 

[masterk]

Hmm cant say that should cause a big problem........

When did you last format?

 

[tsinc80697]

about a month ago i think


if im using 3 x 300GB hard drives, whats the best option for putting installing windows?
create a partition on 1 of the drives for 20gb? or just leave them as 3 drives and not partition them atall

 

[noxidjkram@hotm]

Try unplugging your other HDDs, and just booting from your main one.

Maybe one of your HDDs is on its way out?

M

 

[Duke]

Done a msconfig to clear off any startup items? Also run Crap Cleaner to clear out junk.

 

[tsinc80697]

yeah msconfig has the minimal things i need on, always keep a check on it to see if any craps joined the list

:edit:
missed the comment above the last, yeah i might try just booting off that one, not thought of that!
hope a HDD isnt on its way out, had to replace a maxtor few months ago, lost 300gb of data, cant stand maxtors anymore