HELP ME WITH MY BOOTUP TIME! pls

Rain Man · 15 Jun 2006 at 11:11

Well my spec is as the sig says. My the drive i bootup with is a seagate 80gb sata-ii running at sata-ii speeds

My oc'd 146 opty is 3.0ghz stable, ive got a reasonably fresh install of windows and my ram is running as follows

My hard drive bench:

In msconfig ive got only two things in the startup which is CTFMON and atitray.

But it takes me 01min 07secs to boot up! Thats not including bios screen or login, thats just from when i see the windows logo to when i see the cursor!

i swear my old p4 3.2 booted quicker! Ive run bootvis plenty of times and no improvement.

Help!

Thanks

EDIT:01min 49secs from button pressed until tray icons loaded up!

benjo · 15 Jun 2006 at 11:20

Ok, search google for "Autoruns.exe" and download that little app, lists everything that starts during boot and allows you to google them to see what they are.

Then download a program called "TuneXP", theres tweaks in this program that can make booting up a lot quicker, aswell as shutting down

elite · 15 Jun 2006 at 11:24

im having the same problem, ill try them programs thanks

Scott Salisbury · 15 Jun 2006 at 11:30

TuneXP is amazing I use it on all my installs.

Over 1 minute boot time from the XP screen is an awfully long time and I doubt that even TuneXP would improve it that much, especially after a fresh install.

On my system after a fresh install after the windows updates and Sp2 the xp screen flashes up for about 3 seconds then I see my desktop and that's before I used TuneXP.

Do you have any extra stuff plugged in? Printers, hard drives cd drives etc? That could be dodgey or old?

I just bought myself a new 150GB Raptor (as my 74GB was too noisey) and put a fresh install of windows on and it was perfect. When I had it up and running I put my 74GB hard drive in as a slave to get backups of my documents etc and the boot time suddenly took much longer from the XP screen. I actually thought it had frozen but it eventually loaded. When I took the drive out it was back to normal again.

What I suggest is take EVERYTHING out of your PC that isn't needed to start up and just have the absolute minimum plugged in. So try booting it up with just your boot hard drive, no cd drives, no floppys, no pci cards, webcams or printers etc.

If it improves then try and work out what the problem is from there.

Hope you get it sorted,
Scott.

Stelly · 15 Jun 2006 at 11:31

TuneXp is pretty good for things like that

Stelly

ErNciLator · 15 Jun 2006 at 11:35

yer, id make sure nothing is freezing on boot - like failing net connection, or other time consuming IO's it must wait for. Remove any devices nt needed and boot, see if time different - try without net cable plugged in etc.

Rain Man · 15 Jun 2006 at 11:38

like i said ive only got atitray and ctfmon in boot and just run bootvis, defragged boot files and clicked a few tweaks. now does a fullboot in 1:43. still like nearly 2mins

my mates p4 3.2@ 3.8 skt.478 with 2gb (1 x 1gb, 2 x 512mb) none dual channel boots in like 35secs. and hes got more stuff in start up and using and old IDE drive

is it something to do with A64's? i get 29secs PI score fgs lol

Meatball · 15 Jun 2006 at 11:50

Ohh I just got my boot time to 25secs (From XP logo to log on screen) Sorry for hijacking

Scott Salisbury · 15 Jun 2006 at 11:52

Lost-Prophet said:
Ohh I just got my boot time to 25secs (From XP logo to log on screen) Sorry for hijacking

Kick the man when he's down why don't ya?

Rain Man said:
is it something to do with A64's? i get 29secs PI score fgs lol

Nope, read my sig and read my post above

Meatball · 15 Jun 2006 at 12:01

Scott Salisbury said:
Kick the man when he's down why don't ya?

Nope, read my sig and read my post above

I didn't mean to :rolleyes:

. Have you tried updating your BIOS? Might make a difference

Psypher5 · 15 Jun 2006 at 12:07

just downloaded this app, and OMG it scares me. :/

Just enable.disable, doesnt give any info about stuff or what it does?

Also, if i click randoms will anything majorly eff up my pc

?

f1 is a great key.

Ok just used it, getting a 27second boot (from bios splashscreen before post to xfire logged in) and an under 10 second shutdown

Nice app.

Rain Man · 15 Jun 2006 at 12:25

ive got no pci card or anything. Just my graphics card and another sata drive

what should i and shouldnt i click in tune xp?

Scott Salisbury · 15 Jun 2006 at 12:32

Rain Man said:
ive got no pci card or anything. Just my graphics card and another sata drive

what should i and shouldnt i click in tune xp?

Read the help file it tells you exactly what each feature does and who is it's meant for.

Rain Man · 15 Jun 2006 at 12:33

just done so, ill post back in a min with my full start up time

Rain Man · 15 Jun 2006 at 12:44

Did every twak and it improved by 1sec lol this is pointless

utherpendragon · 15 Jun 2006 at 12:50

Even though it is a nearly new install, you really should try a reinstall. if that doesn't help it points to a hardware failiure.

Rain Man · 15 Jun 2006 at 13:00

thing is ive always had a slow bootup time since i went from my dual core to my opteron. like i said my superpi score is 29secs and my game load times are amazing.

i might just give up

Psypher5 · 15 Jun 2006 at 13:07

Go and make a cuppa while it boots

If everything else is fine and fast.

Mr Men · 15 Jun 2006 at 13:14

just never turn it off

kidloco · 15 Jun 2006 at 13:34

What version of XP is it. my old install of XP PRO was really quick to boot. SInce to to Media Centre Edition it takes a fair old while, worth it for all the extra capabilities it gives my 360