Boot up surprisingly slow!

[Rockfella]

Hi all,

Since the time i bought Q6600 my PC boots very slowly (or maybe i noticed it late!) I am still on XP SP3, the blue bar on the default boot screen always moves 8-9 times before it boots into windows! i know it is very slow as compared to when i had E2140 cpu, it used to show only 3-4 times. A friend sees those blue bar only twice! (his boot up time is 4 times faster that mine on same generation hardware!)

My config:

Q6600 OCed to 2.8 Ghz.

aBIT IP35-E

2GB ram

3 SATA HDDs,

1 IDE combo drive,

I only have 5 programs in start-up.

Can anyone suggest whats wrong? Dont suggest tweaking XP, i have done all possible tweaking i want to do.

TIA

Vivek.

PS: This is the thing i am talking about. The blue bar shows 9-10 times! Way too high!

 

[MaRKiV]

if its not with windows then did u check with the BIOS for the RAM voltages?

and also try putting memory timings to AUTO.

Yes i am taking a wild guess that ur RAM might be at fault.. try posting ur CPU-Z screens. that might help us debug.

Suggestion: reset your bios settings to optomised settings. Then maybe download the latest bios revision.

have u tried BootVis - Microsoft tool to provide faster XP boot and resume times?

 

[idea]

I am facing same problem recently with my lappy .. with 2 gb ram. Tried all possible things.. but in vain.

 

[Rockfella]

Ram voltages are fine at 2.2 V, running at 840 mhz. I wonder why it started after i upgraded to Q6600. Experts please pour in.

if its not with windows then did u check with the BIOS for the RAM voltages?

and also try putting memory timings to AUTO.

Yes i am taking a wild guess that ur RAM might be at fault.. try posting ur CPU-Z screens. that might help us debug.

Suggestion: reset your bios settings to optomised settings. Then maybe download the latest bios revision.

have u tried BootVis - Microsoft tool to provide faster XP boot and resume times?

 

[Eazy]

the blue bar on the default boot screen always moves 8-9 times before it boots into windows!

When this happens to me I empty out the PREFETCH directory under Windows before the next few boots and it seems to make the boot faster. I just did it in the last few days and today my boot time is back on steroids. Windows boot becomes slower after some changes in the hardware.

EDIT: my bar went across about 20 times after I changed from nvidia to ATI - it is now back to my normal of around 7 cycles. I had to remove every reference to nvidia in the Regiistry and also every file which was named nv*.*

 

[Rockfella]

I use CClenaer and have that option selected "Clean prefetch data" it didnot make any difference in my PC. Something else wrong. My mobo maybe :no:

Sidhu's PC shows that bar only 2 times!!

My Start-up programs:

When this happens to me I empty out the PREFETCH directory under Windows before the next few boots and it seems to make the boot faster. I just did it in the last few days and today my boot time is back on steroids. Windows boot becomes slower after some changes in the hardware.

EDIT: my bar went across about 20 times after I changed from nvidia to ATI - it is now back to my normal of around 7 cycles. I had to remove every reference to nvidia in the Regiistry and also every file which was named nv*.*

 

[RoBoGhOsT]

:rofl: my eee pc bar moves 2 times and it boots in 10 sec. installed small version of xp on it.

 

[zanderzone]

i think you have some antivirus or firewall program installed i your system that is causing this boot delay......

well, what's the deal if bar moves 2 times or 5 times, 15 seconds is not gonna make any diff....real deal it the speed you feel when system is completely loaded.....my q9550 moves that bar 6-7 times

 

[Rockfella]

So helpful! Let me come down to Bhopal and personally rep u with sweet dishes!

:rofl: my eee pc bar moves 2 times and it boots in 10 sec. installed small version of xp on it.

Nothing in particular. Avast AV thats it. I have a hdd connected with 3 rd SATA port on mobo which happens to be buggy jmicron, could that be the reason? The delay doesnot make much difference but its weird, boot-up was faster with E2140 CPU :no:

i think you have some antivirus or firewall program installed i your system that is causing this boot delay......

well, what's the deal if bar moves 2 times or 5 times, 15 seconds is not gonna make any diff....real deal it the speed you feel when system is completely loaded.....my q9550 moves that bar 6-7 times

 

[The Sauron]

May be your three SATA + one IDE hard causing long boot time try detaching HDD'S one by one .

Sometime due to problem in partition table/Disk geometry, it takes long time at boot to pass on further it depends on windows installation also.

I have LE 1200 with Asus M2A board windows XP installed on 160GB WD that blue bar moves twice/thrice only.

 

[mav2000]

did u reinstall windows after changing the proccy? This could be the problem. Also r u booting off the fastest drive in your config? After moving windows from my ide to sata drive windows boot up was about 5 times faster.

 

[zanderzone]

is that Britney on your desktop ? Maybe shez the culprit windows want to see more of her

 

[The Sauron]

is that Britney on your desktop ? Maybe shez the culprit windows want to see more of her

+1 to assumption.......Britney could be culprit, change it to Advani and see results.

 

[..:: Free Radical ::..]

the more the amount of hardware you have connected, the slower the boot times, especially the usb and network attached ones. disconnect the ones you don't need.

also, defrag your system partition and keep it on the beginning of the hard disk and make it as small as possible.

don't tell me you have a 40 gb system partition. Install all your programs and games on a separate partition and make a dedicated partition for paging/swapping if you use a pagefile.

 

[Eazy]

boot-up was faster with E2140 CPU :no:

On my kids new computer with a e2200 and an Intel MoBo the bar moves around 25 times !!! :O This is probably because they ran a AMD 754 system over which I Repair Installed XP on the Intel setup - so I am sure that there are a lot of AMD leftovers hyeah:

Here is a FREEWARE you could try out and compare your boot times ... download BOOTTIMER here ....

Download windows Boot timer and application Launch Timer

 

[sri_k]

Try this it may work...
Click my computer&lcik peroperties..then click device manager...then double click the Primary IDE/Sata controler tab see if the slave drive is set to none..in this way windows will stop chking if any slave drives are attched to system...i duuno if i have explained correctly...:ashamed:

 

[Eazy]

Try this it may work...
Click my computer&lcik peroperties..then click device manager...then double click the Primary IDE/Sata controler tab see if the slave drive is set to none..in this way windows will stop chking if any slave drives are attched to system...i duuno if i have explained correctly...:ashamed:

I think this is best done in the BIOS - in the BIOS select NONE for channels with no attached drive instead of AUTO. RIGHT ?

 

[Rockfella]

Yeah man, I've re-installed windows more than 30 times after changing proccy. Not now but there was a time i used to re-install every week :rofl: just for the heck of it. Yes bro not the fastest but yes its the Seagate SATA ST3250310AS that scores 89mbps on HDTach. I have the WD640GB too but dont wanna make it my boot drive (too much data shifting etc)

did u reinstall windows after changing the proccy? This could be the problem. Also r u booting off the fastest drive in your config? After moving windows from my ide to sata drive windows boot up was about 5 times faster.

He he no man i hate Britney, She is Gemma Atkinson! IMO she is the hottest woman alive! Check skins.be for her wallies! U'll be surprised how and why u missed her so many years!

is that Britney on your desktop ? Maybe shez the culprit windows want to see more of her

Vomit Advani :rofl:

+1 to assumption.......Britney could be culprit, change it to Advani and see results.

Spot on dude, Virus32win asked me to disconnect 2 HDDs and boot time is back on 4 bars now... i.e. the windows XP bar only takes aroun 4 rounds while loading. (it takes 8-9 when 3 HDDS are connected) I remember when i had old cpu and had faster boot time, i also had Viewsonic 19" with no USB ports. Now i have the X Box controller, TV Tuner, LCD Webcam also connected with 3 hdds instead of 2. Thats the culprit. Perphaps i have to live with it. My C drive is only 20GB, games partition is 100GB and the rest is for music/photos and softwares. The other 2 HDDs have no partitions at all. I have disabled paging on HDD, all is on 2GB RAM as suggested by u earlier. I frequently defrag my system, almost every third day lol! Thanks mate.

the more the amount of hardware you have connected, the slower the boot times, especially the usb and network attached ones. disconnect the ones you don't need.

also, defrag your system partition and keep it on the beginning of the hard disk and make it as small as possible.

don't tell me you have a 40 gb system partition. Install all your programs and games on a separate partition and make a dedicated partition for paging/swapping if you use a pagefile.

Thanks. U shud really install fresh XP. That way too high! :huh:

On my kids new computer with a e2200 and an Intel MoBo the bar moves around 25 times !!! :O This is probably because they ran a AMD 754 system over which I Repair Installed XP on the Intel setup - so I am sure that there are a lot of AMD leftovers hyeah:

Here is a FREEWARE you could try out and compare your boot times ... download BOOTTIMER here ....

Download windows Boot timer and application Launch Timer

 

[sri_k]

Disable unwanted startup services...

 

[Rockfella]

That kinda thing doesnot work with SATA drives, used to work with IDE interface

Try this it may work...
Click my computer&lcik peroperties..then click device manager...then double click the Primary IDE/Sata controler tab see if the slave drive is set to none..in this way windows will stop chking if any slave drives are attched to system...i duuno if i have explained correctly...:ashamed:

HDDs boot selection is all OK in BIOS. Problem solved. Its becaue of 3 hdds, PCI and numerous USB connections i have now. Didnot think about it earlier.
Thanks very much

I think this is best done in the BIOS - in the BIOS select NONE for channels with no attached drive instead of AUTO. RIGHT ?