Long boot times randomly

dgood · Post by **dgood** » Wed Jan 10, 2007 9:03 pm

So I've only noticed it on two machines mine and my friends with xp x64 and amd 64 processor. only problem is I don't know if it is the problem or not. (ie feel free to move this topic to a different forum.) on random occasion windows will refuse to load. it will sit at the loading screen for hours unless I hit restart then it will boot in the normal short amount of time you'd expect.

Post by **DMB2000uk** » Thu Jan 11, 2007 7:46 am

Is this still at the BIOS screen or at the winxp load screen?

Have you tried running the almost safe mode bootup where it tells you what its loading as it loads it. Hit F8 and i think its one of those options. Trouble with it being a random problem, you'd have to select that option everytime you wanted to turn on untill it hung, which is tedious.

Dan

dgood · Post by **dgood** » Thu Jan 11, 2007 9:44 am

win xp load screen

dgood · Post by **dgood** » Thu Jan 11, 2007 9:45 am

more and more recently it won't load after hours even at all until i hit restart it used to finally load after a long period of time if i left it.

Dragon_Cooler · Post by **Dragon_Cooler** » Thu Jan 11, 2007 11:45 am

Do you have any antivirus or firewalls? If so try uninstalling them and see if it still does it. Also you might want to check your drivers. Drivers may be loading incorrectly.

dgood · Post by **dgood** » Thu Jan 11, 2007 3:21 pm

no antivirus, no firewalls, hell i've even opened all my ports so that I can get better latencies. just hangs on the xp load screen.

Post by **dicecca112** » Thu Jan 11, 2007 5:16 pm

fire up the event viewer check in the Application and system tabs to see if there are any red ! Post them here. Also google TuneXP and run Ultra-Fast Booting from Memory and File System. Then run system file checker from the Miscellaneous tab. See if that turns anything up

dgood · Post by **dgood** » Fri Jan 12, 2007 5:57 pm

I'll do it right when I get home from work. thanks for the ideas.

dgood · Post by **dgood** » Sat Jan 13, 2007 3:08 am

so i fired up the event viewer just now and got some red errors on MsiInstaller most recently i've had some things here and there. and a couple weeks before that i have application error and application hang. however I thinkt he msiinstaller is windows update not installing the last few things I downloaded for some reason or another.

dgood · Post by **dgood** » Sat Jan 13, 2007 3:19 am

installed tune xp and on the next boot I stopped waiting for windows to load after 2 min and pressed restart then clicked start windows normally and then it only took about 15 seconds to load.

so odd. who knows maybe its my defrag program I have running all the time.

Dragon_Cooler · Post by **Dragon_Cooler** » Sat Jan 13, 2007 10:53 am

dicecca112 wrote:fire up the event viewer check in the Application and system tabs to see if there are any red ! Post them here. Also google TuneXP and run Ultra-Fast Booting from Memory and File System. Then run system file checker from the Miscellaneous tab. See if that turns anything up

that reminds me get this program called bootvis http://www.majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=664

it will show you wait is taking a long time and will tweak your system to boot quicker

Post by **dicecca112** » Sat Jan 13, 2007 11:30 am

this works better than bootvis

Tech_Greek · Post by **Tech_Greek** » Wed Jan 17, 2007 10:05 pm

Sounds like what one of my customer's computer was doing when the hard drive was about to kick out.

DFT it...

Dragon_Cooler · Post by **Dragon_Cooler** » Thu Jan 18, 2007 12:20 am

dicecca112 wrote:this works better than bootvis

what does?.....nothing?? LOL

Razorbacx · Post by **Razorbacx** » Thu Jan 18, 2007 9:09 am

Had a problem upon bootup this morning myself. First time that has ever happened. Just got to the Windows Splash screen and it would not go any further. I did a windows repair and rebooted and it started up fine. I took Dragon Coolers advise and dl'ed Bootvis and ran it, we'll see how well it optimizes my bootup and hopefully eliminating any more start up problems.

Any other advise on tweaking, free dl's to optimize and such?

Razorbacx · Post by **Razorbacx** » Thu Jan 18, 2007 9:18 am

Just did a reboot and for some reason or another I had to manually shut down, but upon reboot it started up somewhere between 10-15 secs. Hopefully, the "Restart" was just a one time glitch.

Tech_Greek · Post by **Tech_Greek** » Thu Jan 18, 2007 5:58 pm

Again,

DFT the son of a betch!

Google > DFT from Hitachi