My computer use around 5 minutes to boot. It's a good computer so I dunno why. I t MIGHT be the new moterboard drivers I did instal, or what do you think? CPU Spec: AMD 3500+ 1024 MB Ram GeForce6600GT 250 GB Diskspace Plz, I really need to fix this problem... I hate it. I'll love the one who helps me out and maybe give you a good reputation
first thing you can do is defrag! if you are using a network you can set yer TCP/IP protocol to a fixed IP adress so it wont search for an auto ip. this happens alot.. windows is waitin for an ip while you can also give it a fixed ip.. you can try to fill in here 192.168.0.1
ok, did you do a virus or spyware check lately? some viruses can take up your ram and/or cpu speed and leave you with slowness. are you sure you hard drive is set up right? meaning, the jumpers are correct? on some hard drives I know, they have a master (with a present slave), and a master (single) configuration. It ran slow as hell before I found out that I needed to set it to Master (single). When you say 'boot up' do you mean after you see the windows splash, or during post, when it checks for your drives and memory? get Avast, it's free, and do an at-boot scan, see if it finds anything yummy. delete anything that comes up. http://avast.com/i_kat_207.php?lang=ENG also, get 'search and destroy' and 'ad-aware', search for it on download.com hope this helps
You could try pulling the RAM out of your computer and unplugging your hard drive and stuff and plugging it back in ... I heard that on Tech TV that it helps alot.
nah i do not think this is a hardware problem.. formattin the pc will also help but that is the last thing you want to do.. i really do not think that pullin out hardware is the solution
eh, yeah, it does make sure that it is connected, but it really isn't needed if you had it working before, and never touched it after that, and it messes up... edit: yeah, phoentje, it is definately not a hardware issue, it sounds more like a software one...
nothing came up i already tried avast. avg and norton HA. and its a new hdd and everything seems to be formatted correctly
Use a startup manager to see how many progs are being started up. If it's more than 3-5, then it will take forever... Also, if you have an illegal version of windows, it will lag. One last thing, if you have all the settings custom, it'll take time to load those. Also, theming may slow it down... Edit: Gotta add humor, so, my computer doing anything is prolly slower than your boot! Mine takes like 15 mins to boot. Old computer... Getting a new one soon...
start > run > msconfig start-up tab. type each one into google, for a start-up site and they'll tell you whether it's required to run upon boot up. if it isn't, check it off. Most of the time you can tell what it's for though by just looking at the filename or it's directory.
also please tell us if you are usin a home network.. it can be the thing that its waitin for an ip adress.. thefore i suggested to place a fixed ip adress on the network adapters tcpip setting
I'm booting in about 50 seconds I just measured #1 Clean up HDD. Remove anything that you think its useless (games you never play, music you don't listen to, documents, pictures... everything helps) #2 Defrag #3 Check the TCP/IP settings (Config -> Network Connections -> Right Mouse click on your Connection -> Properties)
first of all NONE of you mentioned the bios in the bios there is an option to enable quick boot. this stops the computer running nonessential checks on start up. the ms config idea is a good one. if you have loads of things running at the bottom right of the screen then that could be your problem. you could also check how fast your processor is running at. this is at the top right of the start up scren as soon as you turn on. you can tweak the speed usin freq/voltage settings. hope this helps
