Windows Vista- Extremely slow boot up time

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I have a problem with a client's home desktop PC

It is an HP -- Core Duo system w/ 2GB ram.. It has a 1TB hard drive I believe
Win Vista- Home premium I assume.

The problem is that the computer is mostly normal, will browse the web, and run fine without any major issues. However, any time that it shuts off or reboots it takes a LONG time to boot up. I checked while it was booted up and it did not seem to have any virus/spyware activity and runs at regular speed when it is at the windows desktop.

I went to his house and saw the issue myself. I rebooted it. It shows the BIOS, then shows the loading bar for vista..then the screen goes totally black. The hard drive continues to make a normal loading noise on and off (no sound of mechanical failure from what I can tell.) Plus after about 15-30 minutes he says it will eventually reach the desktop and work normally again.(I hadn't waited around this long, but it is booting up apparently when it waits long enough) This happens every time it shuts off and is a major annoyance. my only idea is a possible bad hard drive or corrupt OS...

I was thinking to try running chkdsk /f /r ---- what do you all think?


Thanks in advance,
Ryan
 
beeptc said:
I was thinking to try running chkdsk /f /r ---- what do you all think?


Thanks in advance,
Ryan
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I think you need to get the machine and run through an assortment of standard diagnostics to eliminate the different hardware and software possbilities.
 
Did you run a hard drive fitness test? You can ususally access this option in the HP setup/BIOS menu. I'd do that first and see if it passes or not. There may be read and/or write errors on the drive - this is just one option you can try to start off with your troubleshooting.
 
iisjman07 said:
Have you diagnosed the hard drive in any other way than listening to it?
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Perhaps he thinks the drive's female. :p

I'd be looking at possible software issues before ripping at the hard drive. Start with Autoruns, event log, device manager, rootkit/malware and file fragmentation...
 
Disconnect any/all non-essential peripherals before boot up (including network cable/internet connection). I agree with the previous answers, check the HD for problems.
 
I concur with Brundle. I came across a PC once that the owner had a paticular off brand Webcam hooked up and while this cam was hooked up USB, it would take like 20 minutes to boot. But once we disconnected it, it booted normally. Never could figure out exactly why and its a problem that some people have with the wrong one but just unhook when you boot then plug back in! lol.
 
Hi
I think this will happen beacuse of your bio's updation
Update the bio's of your motherboard and checked
If again its showing same problem then your motherboard not supported vista properly:)
 
dynacameron said:
Hi
I think this will happen beacuse of your bio's updation
Update the bio's of your motherboard and checked
If again its showing same problem then your motherboard not supported vista properly:)
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Web designers shouldn't pretend to be computer repair technicians.
 
I have ran into so many laptops running slow on Windows Vista , i just hate Vista with a passion!

I had a customer not too long ago that dropped off a laptop that had the same problem as yours , it took probably 10 minutes to boot up and when i wanna browse the internet or open a new document it would take a minute or 2 to show signs of processing in the background. i ran an HDD check and well guess what , the HDD was almost dead! as i was doing a diagnostic it would just say HDD not detected, after a couple of tries i logged back in , instantly back up her Data and called her , i replaced her HDD and installed a brand new copy of Win7 and she couldn't be any happier!

Hope that helps..
 
See if the drive has reverted to PIO mode? I'm not sure...

Maybe it wouldn't hurt to check the startup items in Autoruns either.

One last thought...I know HP installs this weird program called hpbootop.exe which is supposed to be a "boot optimizer"...not sure if this could be causing it...


Find out from the client when this behavior started happening, and what else happened around that time as well.
 
centropy said:
True Vista has to be the worst operating system ever.
I always regard it as the buggy beta test for windows 7.
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You weren't around for Windows ME, huh? :D

I don't have too many complaints about Vista now that they've provided umpteen bazillion updates.... /s

-Don
 
ha ha yeah DNT you gotta point there!! I have worked on many computers now with Vista and with the updates and doing all the usual little speed tweaks that can be done with visuals ect, they are pretty fast!! Though Windows 7 especially for booting up and shutting down is MUCH better right out of the box.
 
You could take a look at the boot logs & see what driver or process is possibly causing a slowdown in your boot time.

Right click on "Computer" & left click "Manage." Drill down into Event viewer>Applications and Service Logs>Microsoft>Windows>Diagnostics-Performance>Operational. Click on "Filter current log" on the right hand column, where it says "All event ids" in the middle type 100-109 & press "ok."
 
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Vista is crap, I will agree. It's just eye-candy. With the HDD not detected issue, did you check the BIOS for that drive?

Vista is eye-candy but Windows 7 is sweet-:)-:)
 
Vista was not the worst OS. As some here pointed out it was Windows ME. It was so bad that people went back to Windows 98. Lol

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