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03-23-2008, 09:35 AM
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Newb Techie Join Date: Mar 2008 Posts: 10
|  Boot Up Times..
Running a fairly decent system, Intel 6850 Dual Cores, 4 Gigs of Ram, Nvidia GT 8800, Sata Drive, but, I find that my boot up time is slow..
Now, I dont have alot to compare it to, so, what's everyone general boot up time? On boot up, I have the a few prgs, AVG, Picasa, and a few other standard (Audio, Nvidia Setting thing), etc..
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03-23-2008, 09:41 AM
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Formerly known as BuggyVeyron Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: England Posts: 423
| Re: Boot Up Times..
Hmmm ok, so how long are we talking from power on to desktop?
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03-23-2008, 10:06 AM
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Monster Techie Join Date: Aug 2006 Posts: 1,589
| Re: Boot Up Times..
some people think 30-40 seconds is unusually slow...if you're one of those, can't help you, lol
on my system, from pow on to pword screen and input, about 37 seconds I believe...then it may take another 25 seconds to settle down and load up the tray apps, avg/comodo
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03-23-2008, 10:24 AM
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Formerly known as BuggyVeyron Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: England Posts: 423
| Re: Boot Up Times..
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Originally Posted by atomic tofu  some people think 30-40 seconds is unusually slow...if you're one of those, can't help you, lol
on my system, from pow on to pword screen and input, about 37 seconds I believe...then it may take another 25 seconds to settle down and load up the tray apps, avg/comodo | First part made me chuckle and mine probably boots up and settles down the same as yours...
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03-23-2008, 11:31 AM
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Newb Techie Join Date: Mar 2008 Posts: 10
| Re: Boot Up Times..
Yah, mine takes well over 2 mins to start.. I cant figure out why, it's a fairly fast system. Once everything is loaded up, it runs fine..
Start Up programs is pretty minimum.. done the usual defrag, utilities etc..
Thoughts?? It's a Sata at 160 Gigs, with about 40-50 Gigs free..
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03-23-2008, 12:13 PM
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ID.10T Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Midwest in tha houzze Posts: 1,648
| Re: Boot Up Times..
The harddrive shouldn't have a lot to do with slow boot times. Maybe there's a background app that shouldn't be there that's booting up with the system, did you scan for virus and adware as well?
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03-23-2008, 12:20 PM
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Wizard Techie Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Somewhere inbetween FL and NY Posts: 3,035
| Re: Boot Up Times..
What OS are you running?
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Motherboard:Asus P5E X38
Memory:2x2GB OCZ Reapers DDR2 1066
Graphics Card:Asus 4850
Hard Drive:2xSegate 500gb 32MB Cache raid0
Power Supply:Xion 800W
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03-23-2008, 02:03 PM
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Newb Techie Join Date: Mar 2008 Posts: 10
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Running XP, and yah, checked for viruses and adware...it's clean..
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03-23-2008, 06:01 PM
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No place like 127.0.0.1 Join Date: Oct 2007 Posts: 2,999
| Re: Boot Up Times..
My laptop takes about 35 seconds from grub to the desktop. It has an AMD Sepron 3100+ , 768mb of ddr, and a 120gb 5400rpm IDE hard drive.
Try this. It will eliminate unnecessary programs running at startup and should give you a faster start up time.
Click on start > run > type "msconfig" without quotes. Go to the startup tab and disable everything except your antivirus and then click ok.
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03-23-2008, 06:23 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: The South Posts: 19,941
| Re: Boot Up Times..
You can try using BootVis. |MG| BootVis 1.3.37.0
While no longer officially endorsed by Microsoft, BootVis still works with XP. | |
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