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| Thread ID: 44051 | 2004-04-05 06:45:00 | Windows taking its time to boot...... | Chilling_Silence (9) | Press F1 |
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| 227338 | 2004-04-05 06:45:00 | Greetings, Ive done repairs for a client (No, I didnt break it... Get your minds outa the gutter ;-)). The PC was taking ages to do anything (More than just booting) and so I origionally ran an AV Scan. After that, I shutdown the PC for the night. Next morning when I turned it on, the HDD wasnt being picked up in the BIOS. We pulled the HDD out and threw it in another PC.. It was a dead duck. So we bought a new HDD for the PC and put it in, installing Windows which fine and dandy, I updated the OS etc and it was peachy :-). We sent it back all fine and dandy. Got it back three days later because they wanted a new Modem. This was installed on the first of April without a hitch. Silly me forgot to make a System Restore Point. We got the PC back today and its taking about 15 minutes to fully boot :-( Now.. I didnt do jack here... (No smart comments :p) I rebooted the PC before I gave it back on the first to make sure that it was all sweet as (I always do a reboot before I finish, things sometimes are different after a reboot but they werent). The customer took the PC home, and reakons that it was immediately taking its time (about 10 minutes, no exaggeration) to boot. Got it back, checked startup items, Antivirus, spyware.... No new apps have been installed... I restored to a System Restore point that was created later on the 1st of April (Not by me, so it musta been the customer) and its still bung. Any ideas? Cheers Chill. |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 227339 | 2004-04-05 08:42:00 | What OS? & what are they computer specks? How old is it? |
stu140103 (137) | ||
| 227340 | 2004-04-05 09:34:00 | So its got a new HDD in it now? What are the specs of that? They didn't swap you with a dud 5400rpm one did they? Possibly, being windows it might like a reformat and reinstall to adapt to the new drive. Or maybe a "repair". |
Orion (5481) | ||
| 227341 | 2004-04-05 10:56:00 | In no particuler order. Disable all network adaptors and remove any set-up networking. Re-boot between each step to see if any diffrence is made. Remove the drivers for all the pci-cards,sound,modem,video,usb,whatever via the device manager,reboot,let it detect everything and then reboot again. reload the the chipset drivers. reload sp1. Disable everything in the start-up,and any non-micro-soft services running,and when i say everything under start-up,that includes anti-virus,firewall and whatever other junk people leave on when troubleshooting in their belief that they "must" leave certain programs running,or that some particler program never caused problems so "it can't be that one" Jump into the bios and load default settings,then tweak it so the cpu and memory are running at their assigned speeds. Physicly remove add-on devices from the computer,un-plug floppy,cd-rom,remove pci cards. Have you defragged the drive? anyway,just some suggestions,its your call as to which or if any are aplicable,i just follow my nose and it all works out okay...... Though you know your getting near the bottom of the barrel when the only thing left in the computer is the harddrive and you decide to swap over the ide cable for a brand new one...... |
metla (154) | ||
| 227342 | 2004-04-05 23:38:00 | Stu> The spec's of the PC are more than fine, Its a 1.3Ghz Duron, 128MB Ram (Although 32 is shared with Video, so that could affect things slightly, but not this much...). Orion> Yes, the new HDD is in it, the old one is at the tip by now.... The new one is fine.. It worked fine until the customer took it home...? I did a fresh installation on this HDD when I installed it, because the old one was dead, so I'd rather not do another repair/reinstall on this new HDD, but I s'pose if I must.... Metla> Thanks man, that sounds like a plan removing the hardware.... Ive put WinXP SP2 on it, that was the first thing I did (And it worked fine while I installed other apps like Spybot and Winamp etc.). Currently the only app loading at startup is AVG and the IDWlog whatsit thingy that coes with SP2. The only thing Im thinking is that the hardware was working perfectly fine on the First of April, so I dont think removing the CPU etc is applicable, nor a wise idea. Defragging? Already? I could try, but I doubt it.... ...Defragging never crossed my mind, I s'pose Im forgetting.... been too long.... not done it.... ext3.... reiserfs... Oh the joys of not having to Defrag ;-) Thanks guys, Any more suggestions? Cheers Chill. |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 227343 | 2004-04-06 00:01:00 | Have had zip drives causing this if on same IDE as HDD. Another thought, sometimes slow start caused by windows searching for network card or connection that is no longer there. |
Pheonix (280) | ||
| 227344 | 2004-04-06 02:16:00 | There are no Zip drives on this pc. Its got the LAN configured for a Static IP so its not pissing round looking for a DHCP server. Im at a loss... DMA is enabled on the HDD.... So far Ive disabled the LAN card and rebooted, no difference so its enabled again now. I did however notice there were no Display Drivers installed... However I doubt that would affect it, yet it seems odd that they're now missing even though I installed them. Could have been the System Restore restoring to before I installed them though.... Any other ideas? Cheers Chill. |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 227345 | 2004-04-06 02:20:00 | send it to me with a blank cheque. :D | metla (154) | ||
| 227346 | 2004-04-06 02:38:00 | They are not covering the PC with fridge magnets are they? | mikebartnz (21) | ||
| 227347 | 2004-04-06 03:17:00 | Metla> I wish.... :-( Mikebartnz> Yes, the whole thing is one great big magnet ;-) No, they're not :-) Chill. |
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