slow boot

Hi, everyone reading this! I've been having some problems with my computer's power saving mode for a long time now. Everytime I put my computer in power saving mode and when later trying to start it up has always resulted in a BSOD. Somehow that problem has been solved mysteriously some months...

A couple of days ago my OS hard drive has failed. I was using Ableton Live and it crashed, so had to reboot the computer. But instead of loading windows, I got "0xc000000f -- The boot selection failed because a required device is inaccessible" error. In addition to this I have noticed that it...

Different to most peoples boot up problems, mine problem is that it takes about two minutes to show the boot up animation after the HP logo. All it shows is a black screen with a little flashing white line for about two minutes. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks

hi all i own a alienware area51 2.93ghz intel core 2 extreme x6800 any way over the last 3/4 days pc been crashing random blue screen todays being 0x0000124 it will not do the memory dump in the blue screen it will just freeze on it next time the pc boots up it is very slow and have to reboot to...

Hello - I did search the slow start up topics, but couldn't find anything relating to a power outage. Also, I can't say 100% that this is related to the power outage. I had this same problem a couple months ago after an automatic Windows update. I restored the computer to 2 days prior and...

My PC takes about 4 minutes to boot! I have tried everything possible including running xbootmgr -trace boot -prepSystem -verboseReadyBoot. Win XP never gave me the headaches I have experienced with Win7. This OS is very unstable and very sensitive to hardware specs. I remember I could not...

My pc takes about 4 excruciating minutes to boot and be ready for use. I have the following progs running at startup and no malware: Yes HKLM:Run NUSB3MON "C:\Program Files (x86)\NEC Electronics\USB 3.0 Host Controller Driver\Application\nusb3mon.exe" Yes HKLM:Run itype...

Hello, I'm helping my mom out with this one. She's got an Acer Aspire 5733z-445 Intel PentiumP6100 3 GB DDR3 Memory TOSHIBA MK3259GSXP [Hard drive] (320.07 GB) Windows 7 Home Premium (x64) Service Pack 1 (build 7601) On boot, it takes anywhere from 15-20 minutes for the computer to get to a...

Hi, Thanks in advance for reading. I made a prototype PC for a customer of mine with an mSATA 64GB Kingston SSD. They returned it with their custom software/content (SCALA) and we've made some significant modifications to the chassis. The operating system on the unit is Windows Embedded...

I'm assisting a client that is running a fully patched SBS 2003. 5 computers on domain; 2 are XP, 3 are windows 7 professional 32-bit. All 3 Win7 PCs are new HP 6200 SFF, fully patched. The Windows 7 PCs take a long time to boot up.. it's 3 minutes before the login screen comes up, and...

I attempt to migrate a local Windows 7 fresh installation instance to FreeNAS iscsi target. I use dd to copy the windows 7 disk image and make it available as iscsi target disk. I then use sanboot to start the iscsi target, the windows OS boot till the windows logo screen and finally blue screen...

My PC takes approximately 90 seconds to boot! The HDD constantly reads/writes when windows has booted.My system:Win7x64, i7 920, gtx 560, 6 gig ram, Western digital 650 gig HDD, Asus p6 deluxe MB.

Hi, just joined the forum to ask for help with a laptop I'm working on. I've researched the problem in a load of forums but nothing seems to work on it, so I'm hoping someone here knows of a solution I've missed. The laptop is an Acer Aspire 5732Z, the specs are: cpu - T4400 ram - 3.00 GB OS -...

Hi all, i am glad i found you. Here is my problem: i have a pc that as the title says taking to long to boot and shut down. Boot log Log Name: Microsoft-Windows-Diagnostics-Performance/Operational Source: Microsoft-Windows-Diagnostics-Performance Date: 13/9/2011 14:55:26...

Hi pplz, this is for my DADS computer (not this one) as his is completely un usable at the moment! He has a toshiba satellite, i5 with a GT 330M (geforce) and 4GB RAM (specifics i can find if needed - sorry) His issue is that over the last 5 days the laptop turns on slowish (not the end of...

Hi, everyone.. i am a newbie here. and i wish to ask experts here to help me. i have a Notebook Asus N82 and i change my harddisk (5400rpm 640Gb) to 320Gb 7200rpm. I using Seagate hd to clone all files. and boot... it works normally except starting up when windows flag appear.. it will takes...

I have an Asus G-series laptop. I don't think the laptop specs are relevant to my problem at all. For the first couple months of having it (refurbished model) everything worked fine. Then one night I closed it and went to bed. The next morning I couldn't get it to start up. It would go through...

Bill Detwiler shows you how to use the Windows 7 Event Viewer to track down potential causes of long boot times. More...

My office system is a Dell w/ Win7 and it's been running fine up until 1 month ago. Then it started this odd behavior. On a cold boot it runs about 5x to 20x times slower than normal, almost as if it's just running on a single core locked at 5%. Boot time to hit splash screen is 2.5 to 4.5...

My laptop takes over 4minutes to boot. It stalls for 2minutes on the welcome screen. (No Harddrive activity) If I go into msconfig, turn all the services and startup's off. it doesn't help. Booting into safe mode takes 45 seconds. Booting into safe mode with networking takes 4minutes. But take...