Hi all,
I'm running Vista 64-bit on the rig shown in my signature and it's taking upto 4 minutes to start up and get to a usable desktop from being completely powered down.
I've done some research and have got vista set up to show which drivers are being loaded during the startup process (like in safe mode) and also to log the startup to a file (both through msconfig options)
My results are as follows:
+ BIOS POST:
(From pressing power button to beginning boot from hard drive)
Time = ~15 seconds
+ Loading Drivers:
Time = ~5 seconds
----- Now, this is the intersting part! -----
+ Hang at black screen with white text displaying:
+ Then the screen displays the following for ~5 seconds
+ Then it takes 1 or 2 seconds for the welcome screen to flash up then I'm at my desktop just loading startup items like xfire + the sidebar, etc. (which all-in-all may take 20-30 seconds once I'm on desktop before I can start anything)
Now, like I said at the start of this post, this totals at around 4 minutes, which is pretty terrible given the hardware in my pc.
As far as I can tell, the file system check is what's taking up so much of my boot time - probably because I've used 90% (842GB out of the 931GB) of my hard drive.
So, in sight of this, I would like to ask if anyone out there would be able to give me any ideas on how to stop the file system check on startup as it's killing me.
Thank you for reading, sorry that it's such a long post!
-----
Note 1: I have cleaned out my registry using CleanMyPC Registry Cleaner for 64bit windows and had a few reboot cycles since then.
Note 2: I have defragmented my hard drive using Auslogics Disk Defrag before testing.
Note 3: I realise that if I use the sleep function rather than shutdown then I would not have this problem and my PC would be at the desktop in a few seconds, but I overclock... a lot, so fast booting would make overclocking easier.
EDIT: Re-enabled ReadyBoost service after finding out that it is linked to "ReadyBoot" which has speeded up startup to an extent - the old results have been removed in favour of the new ones.
I'm running Vista 64-bit on the rig shown in my signature and it's taking upto 4 minutes to start up and get to a usable desktop from being completely powered down.
I've done some research and have got vista set up to show which drivers are being loaded during the startup process (like in safe mode) and also to log the startup to a file (both through msconfig options)
My results are as follows:
+ BIOS POST:
(From pressing power button to beginning boot from hard drive)
Time = ~15 seconds
+ Loading Drivers:
Time = ~5 seconds
----- Now, this is the intersting part! -----
+ Hang at black screen with white text displaying:
Time = 1min 30 seconds
+ Then the screen displays the following for ~5 seconds
+ Then it takes 1 or 2 seconds for the welcome screen to flash up then I'm at my desktop just loading startup items like xfire + the sidebar, etc. (which all-in-all may take 20-30 seconds once I'm on desktop before I can start anything)
Now, like I said at the start of this post, this totals at around 4 minutes, which is pretty terrible given the hardware in my pc.
As far as I can tell, the file system check is what's taking up so much of my boot time - probably because I've used 90% (842GB out of the 931GB) of my hard drive.
So, in sight of this, I would like to ask if anyone out there would be able to give me any ideas on how to stop the file system check on startup as it's killing me.
Thank you for reading, sorry that it's such a long post!
-----
Note 1: I have cleaned out my registry using CleanMyPC Registry Cleaner for 64bit windows and had a few reboot cycles since then.
Note 2: I have defragmented my hard drive using Auslogics Disk Defrag before testing.
Note 3: I realise that if I use the sleep function rather than shutdown then I would not have this problem and my PC would be at the desktop in a few seconds, but I overclock... a lot, so fast booting would make overclocking easier.
EDIT: Re-enabled ReadyBoost service after finding out that it is linked to "ReadyBoot" which has speeded up startup to an extent - the old results have been removed in favour of the new ones.
Last edited:
...
