Windows 8.1 Unusable for 5 minutes (startup)

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Having trouble figuring this out, system has just been given to me to figure out another unrelated power off/restart issue which was thankfully easy to fix.

However one thing that that's driving me nuts is every time I reboot the machine once windows loads it takes a further 5 minutes of loading before windows 8.1 is usable, lots of hard drive activity.

It's a half decent system, no SSD drive sadly but it still shouldn't have this issue.

Specs / all stock.
i7 920
6GB DDR3
2TB Storage (2x1TB Raid 0)
Gigabyte GA-965P-DS4
GTX 970
 
Try moving the OS drive off of the Marvell SATA controller.

I had the same problem. Spent untold hours reinstalling and trying to rectify it but couldn't. Swapped motherboard for one with an Intel SATA controller and haven't seen an issue since.
 
try in safe mode and see if it takes the same amount of time.

check what is loading with the OS as something installed maybe causing the issue,

check event viewer for any errors as well.

the marvell controllers on the X58 boards are terrible. i have a SSD on my system but use the intel sata 2 ports
 
No SSD drive = the system is 'superfetching'.

The best fix is use sleep mode and don't shut down.

Why don't you have an SSD? Your pc is pretty beefy, SSD is the single best upgrade any pc can get! Order a Samsung Evo 850 now, you'll kick yourself for not getting one sooner.
 
bledd. said:
No SSD drive = the system is 'superfetching'.

The best fix is use sleep mode and don't shut down.

Why don't you have an SSD? Your pc is pretty beefy, SSD is the single best upgrade any pc can get! Order a Samsung Evo 850 now, you'll kick yourself for not getting one sooner.
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It's not my system, it's friend/colleague's system and it's a quiet day so thought i'd give it some time.

It was losing power/restarting randomly so replaced the PSU, he wasn't even complaining about the startup issue, that was just annoying me. :)

Anyway, I just replaced the cmos battery and the last three restarts have not had this issue, probably unrelated but still odd.

Think i'll call it today, the main issue was solved anyway. Thanks for the suggestions.
 
It's a disgrace he doesn't have an SSD in that machine! Seriously, they're not even expensive anymore. It's the single best upgrade you can do.
 
Indeed.

RAID-0 2x 1TB seems mental unless you're using it as a temp drive for photo/video editing.

Fit an SSD, 256GB, then use 1x1TB for data/documents, the other for backup.


And get Windows 10. I can understand some people not wanting to go from 7 to 10. But 8/8.1 to 10 is a no brainer.
 
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