Loooooonnng boot times (5mins+)

TheBigCheese

TheBigCheese

TheBigCheese

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Hi guys

It's been a weird day computer wise...

Playing Oblivion last night, it freezes and I get graphical corruption

Try again and same thing happens.

Today I notice the chipset fan has fallen off the motheboard :eek: (It's an Asus A8N-SLI - yup, one of those problem fans...it went ages ago so I replaced it with an Akasa Cool Blue, that's what fell off).

This crashing/corruption damaged a windows registry file which couldn't be repaired and I'm now in the middle of a reformat... :rolleyes:

When I boot up though it pauses at the Asus screen for about a minute and again at PCI device listing screen for over a minute...all in all it takes about 4-5 minutes to get into Windows.

Does anyone have any ideas what could be causing the slow boot times?

Thanks
 
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TheBigCheese said:
Thanks for the post.

480W Tagan.
Why would you think I could have a power problem?


Rest of the specs are:

AMD X2 4400
Geforce 600GT
2Gb Corsair TwinX
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Doubt PSU :)

Clearly you can tell that something was damaged when the fan fell off just from the issues you are having! Recommend good inspection of motherboard :cool:
 
There is no visual signs of any damage...when I say it fell off, the motherboard is mounted vertically so it was more hanging in mid-air by the power cable.

So it didn't fall against anything, or short anything.

I have throughly cleaned out all the dust and whatnot using a Giottos Rocket Air (hand blower - none of the compressed stuff), cleaned the motherboard chip with Akasa TIM-clean CPU & heatsink cleaner and installed the new fan exactly as the old one.

There was no sign or smell of singeing silicon so if there was damage it can't be much...

I'm very much :confused: :confused: :confused:

It can't be any of the software as that hasn't been loaded at that time...the BIOS can't be corrupted otherwise it wouldn't boot or throw up an error message...

Can it be anything else other than physical damage?
(I'm trying to rule everything else out before having to fork out the money and time on getting and fitting a new board *sigh*)
 
Reading your post/s again, I think that fan might have fallen off awhile before it 'froze' & gave 'graphical corruption'. Maybe the chipset overheated? :confused: :(
 
Warranty ran out in March and I don't have time to wait weeks for a new or repaired board.

I run a business from home and so need the PC to be working as I do a lot of photo and video editing.

All I've got at the moment is this laptop...which is fine for the internet but not much else.

Please see:
Which board do I buy
for my next panicked post...
 
Nope I haven't run Memtest as I can't actually boot at the moment...

It's all getting very odd...

If I disconnect all the drives it boots at normal speed until it says there is nothing to boot from

If I plug the HDD in it takes forever to boot and then hangs

So I thought it was the HDD...plugged in another HDD (which wasn't connected at all when the problem happened) that has a backup copy of Windows on it...

And it takes an age to boot up....and then locks up.

So it surely has to be either the motherboard or the memory, seeing as the problems have only happened after getting severe graphical corruption and lockups and then finding the chipset fan wasn't attached I'm pretty sure it is the motherboard.

But I'm still open to suggestions!!! (if I could boot, I'd run memtest)
 
TheBigCheese said:
Nope I haven't run Memtest as I can't actually boot at the moment...

It's all getting very odd...

If I disconnect all the drives it boots at normal speed until it says there is nothing to boot from

If I plug the HDD in it takes forever to boot and then hangs

So I thought it was the HDD...plugged in another HDD (which wasn't connected at all when the problem happened) that has a backup copy of Windows on it...

And it takes an age to boot up....and then locks up.

So it surely has to be either the motherboard or the memory, seeing as the problems have only happened after getting severe graphical corruption and lockups and then finding the chipset fan wasn't attached I'm pretty sure it is the motherboard.

But I'm still open to suggestions!!! (if I could boot, I'd run memtest)
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I'd be suprised TBH :) Think of it this way, what does the chipset handle? Isn't it all the things you've been getting problems with?
 
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