painfully slow windows loading times

cokecan · 26 Aug 2007 at 21:07

Hey Guys

since gettin this new PC i've been plagued with really really slow loading times

every other PC i've owned has never been this slow and this is the fastest by far.

Basically it gets to the bit with the windows loading bar, that goes past about 15 times before the hard drive even starts reading then finishes loading windows.

This is with a quad core, abit f-i90hd, and my old raptor from my last comp.

I've tried clean formats, replacing sata cables, all sorts of optimisations (inc bootvis) but nothing seems to help

Does anyone have any idea's??

FatRakoon · 27 Aug 2007 at 20:43

A short while back, I bought a barebones PC as a quick sort out and it was using the NForce6200 Chipset and I found that the PC itself was crippled to hell and back.

I ran HDTACH and I found that it was totally unable to access the HD at any more than 16MB/s

I ended up giving the Board away I was that annoyed.

It was not a biggie cos it was only a £30 board, but thats not the point is it?

So, run HDTACH on it to see if its doing similar?

MarcLister · 27 Aug 2007 at 21:33

When you used bootvis did it tell you where the time was going? It should have made a graph for you. Perhaps it'll tell you where the time is going, could be taking ages to load up a driver or something.

It should also tell you if the disk is being read from or written to so you can see if the disk is being used constantly or not.

You don't use bootvis to optimise the boot, you can use it to analyse the boot up process and see what is going on and when.

And is this XP or Vista?

FatRakoon · 27 Aug 2007 at 22:18

Does bootvis work on Vista?

MarcLister · 27 Aug 2007 at 22:19

Think it might be XP only.

Pukk@pie · 28 Aug 2007 at 10:46

I have had slow loading times in the past on vista. For me this has been due to the Page File somehow becoming divided and spread across a drive, clearing the page file - restarting - reapplying the page file - restarting, always fixed mine.

FatRakoon · 28 Aug 2007 at 13:02

PAGEDEFRAG is one of those tools that I cannot do without.

Its not for Vista though ( AFAIK ) and even XP64 dont like it which is a shame cos I use XP64.

deadite66 · 28 Aug 2007 at 19:44

i've has that before a few times, a network device was set to dhcp and awaiting a connection.
in all my cases it was a firewire port, so turned it off as i didn't need it and windows booted fine.