Why does W7 take SO long to boot?

italianstallion · 7 Nov 2010 at 11:32

Whats the average booting time? about 20 seconds for it to stay on the windows 7 splash screen? I timed mine this morning. It took, here we go,
1 minute 30s

something not right. i did a fresh isntall and it was like it on the last install, so its something hardware related. it gets to the point where the splash screen stops moving. anyone hazard a guess as to whats wrong?

Deleted member 77746 · 7 Nov 2010 at 11:48

Mines fine.

theheyes · 7 Nov 2010 at 11:52

What have you got connected to the machine?

italianstallion · 7 Nov 2010 at 11:54

all i have connected is a graphics card, sound card, sata hd and cd drive internally.

Externally, nothing except for an ethernet cable.

edscdk · 7 Nov 2010 at 11:55

have you installed it on a 256mb P4d 1.6?

italianstallion · 7 Nov 2010 at 12:02

nope. gfx is geforce 5200, sound is creative SB Audigy, CPU is P4 Prescott (@3.3ghz), mobo is asrock p4v88. C Drive is a samsung something or other. 3.5GB of RAM is 2 kingstons, 1gb something else and 512mb something else. cant remember.

it all runs windows fine, fairly quick, OS is in good nick. Its just booting that takes forever.

jak731 · 7 Nov 2010 at 12:05

Probably a slow hdd, your ram might be running in single channel due to that 512mb stick as well.

italianstallion · 7 Nov 2010 at 12:08

yeah the ram is running in single channel, but its better to have 3.5gb of single channel than 2gb of dual channel right?

The hd shouldnt be slow, its a SATA II (although jumpered to 1.5 for the mobo) at 7200rpm

is there anything in the bios id have enabled/disabled to slow it down?

alex24 · 7 Nov 2010 at 12:10

Can't see you running much on a P4 prescott very well where you'd need more than 2GB to be honest.

How old is that HDD?

italianstallion · 7 Nov 2010 at 12:25

Hd is only about a year old, and a it was used for before i put it in mine was for dumping data do it so it hasnt been stressed. It was doing the same thing on an older ide before this anyway on a different install.

italianstallion · 7 Nov 2010 at 18:58

umm, guess i sorted the problem.

All i did was reset my bios with default settings so there mustve been something there.

I also ran a few superpi tests with dual channel 2gb and single channel 3.5gb ram, turns out dual channel was about 4seconds quicker. i think i have a dodgy stick though which is why it was running slower. now the pc boots in less than a minute like it should.