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This started about a week ago and only from a cold boot, restarts are not affected.
When I turn on my PC, it runs the normal BIOS activity and goes to the Full Logo screen before I get to my OS choice menu, normally this takes a few seconds, I choose my OS and then boots in a matter of seconds.
The issue, is now it takes a full 3 minutes to go from the (BIOS) Full Logo to the Windows 8 OS Menu.
No BSOD's, no error messages and no errors in Event Viewer, well 1, and I'm pretty certain it has no barring.
If I select F2 (BIOS Settings) or F10 (Menu Settings) it still takes 3 minutes for my selection to open.
I thought it may have been a program I installed, no.
I set the BIOS to all defaults, no change, changed them back, didn't make a difference.
I've also removed 2 of the original memory sticks (1Gb ea.), no change.
This system has been running great since I got from my neighbor (for free), he was having problems with it, it turned out to be a bad monitor connection and 1 faulty 512Mb memory stick (3Gb total, 2-1Gb sticks & 2-512Mb sticks)
I cleaned it up, installed additional 4Gb's DDR2 Corsair memory, added 2 more Seagate 320Gb drives and a 480w Cooler Master SATA PSU.
It a Gateway/eMachines ET1161-03, that had Windows Vista Home Premium x86 and now has Vista Ultimate x64, 7 x64 and 8 CP x64.
Any thoughts on this or should I just live with it?
Thanks
Don
BTW, didn't know where else to put this as this does not seem to be a Windows issue.
Thanks again.
When I turn on my PC, it runs the normal BIOS activity and goes to the Full Logo screen before I get to my OS choice menu, normally this takes a few seconds, I choose my OS and then boots in a matter of seconds.
The issue, is now it takes a full 3 minutes to go from the (BIOS) Full Logo to the Windows 8 OS Menu.
No BSOD's, no error messages and no errors in Event Viewer, well 1, and I'm pretty certain it has no barring.
If I select F2 (BIOS Settings) or F10 (Menu Settings) it still takes 3 minutes for my selection to open.
I thought it may have been a program I installed, no.
I set the BIOS to all defaults, no change, changed them back, didn't make a difference.
I've also removed 2 of the original memory sticks (1Gb ea.), no change.
This system has been running great since I got from my neighbor (for free), he was having problems with it, it turned out to be a bad monitor connection and 1 faulty 512Mb memory stick (3Gb total, 2-1Gb sticks & 2-512Mb sticks)
I cleaned it up, installed additional 4Gb's DDR2 Corsair memory, added 2 more Seagate 320Gb drives and a 480w Cooler Master SATA PSU.
It a Gateway/eMachines ET1161-03, that had Windows Vista Home Premium x86 and now has Vista Ultimate x64, 7 x64 and 8 CP x64.
Any thoughts on this or should I just live with it?
Thanks
Don
BTW, didn't know where else to put this as this does not seem to be a Windows issue.
Thanks again.
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