Recent content by Gareth Foster

Hello again, I have narrowed down the culprit of the huge boot delay. It is the ACPI driver (acpi.sys) which takes over 1000 seconds (~17 mins) to load on boot. Here is my skydrive folder which contains a RAR'd boot trace file (the unRAR'd file was 330Mb) which shows the boot process, and the...

Sorry for the delay, had a bit of a distraction at home. No luck, disabling all the services didn't change anything :(

I'll certainly give it a try, but I doubt it is the SQL services as this issue has happened since the OS was installed, and even during the setup process. Will report back soon.

@zvit: No luck with any of those suggestions :( @TorrentG: Latest video driver is installed, and there are no overclocked components. Report is here: @CommonTater: I have no external hard disk attached, USB or otherwise. As well as this, I have tried booting with no USB devices at all...

Unfortunately the problems in those threads aren't the same as my problem. Though quite similar, those people are having problems with the PC freezing/hanging/locking up at the starting windows screen just as the windows logo animation starts up. My PC doesn't freeze, the animation continues to...

Hello, Yesterday I installed Windows 7 on my brother's PC. He had been using Vista previously. Upon booting to the installer, the "Starting Windows" screen would appear with the animated windows logo. This screen took 20 minutes of waiting to get past, so for ages I thought it wasn't going to...