Slow boot up and performance on new system?

stratman59 · 12 Jul 2012 at 18:15

Hi, Just rebuild my system with the Gigabyte Kryton Z68 & intel i5 and 4 gig ram.

My old Q6600 4 gig ddr2 and Asrock system would boot in 2 mis 40 secs. My new system on a clean Win 7 install takes 5.03 and half the software from my previous setup isn't even installed yet? It also just seems real slow at everything, any help before I phone the tech guys. I haven't touched the O/C settings just installed the drivers from the MB CD.

stratman59 · 12 Jul 2012 at 18:52

Yes, same hard drive, clean format before installing Win 7.

stratman59 · 12 Jul 2012 at 19:41

Set to IDE, when I switch the bios to AHCI it went crazy, ended with a message saying something like 'no boot info' press ctrl, alt, del. What should in be on for a normal SATA drive, IDE or AHCI?

stratman59 · 13 Jul 2012 at 15:39

Thanks for all you help guys, got it sorted. I used msconfig tools and turning off all devices and then one by one switching them on again and re-booting. Found the culprit to be my anti virus installation was corrupted. UN-installed Bullguard and then re installed. Boot has gone from 5:24 down to a respectable 2:27.