Windows 7 Hanging On Startup

Rensin · 8 Dec 2009 at 20:57

When starting PC everything starts fine until i get to the black Welcome screen in which will hang for around 30 seconds or so. Is this normal ?

Start Up progs are

Kaspersky AV
Acronis True Image
Rocketdock

thanks for any help.

m4cc45 · 8 Dec 2009 at 22:21

Doesn't sound normal - only thing I can suggest is removing them one by one to find the culprit.

M.

Rensin · 9 Dec 2009 at 11:33

m4cc45 said:
Doesn't sound normal - only thing I can suggest is removing them one by one to find the culprit.

M.

have removed everything from start up and have not seen any difference.

BorkBork · 9 Dec 2009 at 11:46

Try checking Event Viewer to see if there are any errors. It could be a faulty service that just stalls for 30 seconds until timeout.

Rensin · 31 Dec 2009 at 11:45

there are 8 errors in Event Viewer from a cold start.

Have done a clean install on a new Hard Drive and reset my BIOS in case my overclock had anything to do with it but still takes an age to start.

Here is my restart time, with Kaspersky & Acronis starting up.

OpenToSuggestions · 31 Dec 2009 at 11:47

Remove your overclock, just to be sure it isn't that (it shouldn't be).

Rensin · 31 Dec 2009 at 11:50

mglover070588 said:
Remove your overclock, just to be sure it isn't that (it shouldn't be).

already done that fella

no difference

_Jimlad_ · 31 Dec 2009 at 14:26

do u have 'solid background' selected as you desktop/background theme? as that has a bug

Rensin · 2 Jan 2010 at 18:04

_Jimlad_ said:
do u have 'solid background' selected as you desktop/background theme? as that has a bug

nope no Solid colour, even with the solid colour selected i can not tell no difference in boot times.

Raumarik · 2 Jan 2010 at 19:41

Possibly a service? I'd disable any Acronis/Kaspersky services completely, see how it goes. Also look for anything else that seems a bit out of place in the services list.

Rensin · 2 Jan 2010 at 23:19

Kami said:
Possibly a service? I'd disable any Acronis/Kaspersky services completely, see how it goes. Also look for anything else that seems a bit out of place in the services list.

have tried on a completely fresh install with no AV or progs installed just the drives windows installs automatically :confused:

_Jimlad_ · 3 Jan 2010 at 20:39

run msconfig and take a screen shot of your boot up proggies

Rensin · 3 Jan 2010 at 22:15

Start Up Progs

Start Up Services

_Jimlad_ · 3 Jan 2010 at 22:50

looks fairly normal, i guess you have tried with all off them disables?

Rensin · 4 Jan 2010 at 00:39

_Jimlad_ said:
looks fairly normal, i guess you have tried with all off them disables?

just as thought, yep all disabled inc services.

Maybe summat to do with hardware?? as i have the same prob on clean install.

m4cc45 · 4 Jan 2010 at 08:51

Was it bad on the Windows reinstall without anything installed?

_Jimlad_ · 4 Jan 2010 at 09:13

oh if it's doing it on a clean install i would point it towards hardware or configuration?

Gonna have to try the normal steps

reset bios to defaults...

check everything is seated on the motherboard

try taking out any non essential hardware (ie tv cards ect..)

run memory checks (try booting with one stick first off)

Rensin · 4 Jan 2010 at 14:52

m4cc45 said:
Was it bad on the Windows reinstall without anything installed?

yeah, getting about 74 secs with no progs installed

_Jimlad_ said:
oh if it's doing it on a clean install i would point it towards hardware or configuration?

Gonna have to try the normal steps

reset bios to defaults... Done back to 2.4Ghz

check everything is seated on the motherboard Done

try taking out any non essential hardware (ie tv cards ect..) Done

run memory checks (try booting with one stick first off)

Ran a quick memtest with 2 passes on each stick with no errors

Also taken out my 4870 and put in my spare 2600xt card in which booted fairly quick so ran Restart-time and boom 56 secs, restarted again and back to 70 - 80 secs lol (didn't try the 2600 on my HD with progs on)

Gonna try another install on a WD drive with the 2600xt card ............ touches wood

cheers for the help too

_Jimlad_ · 4 Jan 2010 at 15:27

sorry i can't shed anymore light on it, strange one, maybe try posting something in GH and see if anyone can suggest futher options, as with a clean install and nothing loaded it does point away from windows or proggies being the issue