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| Thread ID: 38499 | 2003-10-09 03:58:00 | how long should boot / start up take till log in screen appears? | beetle (243) | Press F1 |
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| 181562 | 2003-10-09 03:58:00 | i have a feeling i have seen this question before ..... but approx how long would a good not sick computer take to turn on button to boot/ load/ start etc till welcome log in screen take..... minutes? seconds? we are talking win XP home here beetle |
beetle (243) | ||
| 181563 | 2003-10-09 04:01:00 | Depends on your system specifications, really. But I use Windows XP Pro, with an 800MHz CPU and 256MB of RAM. It takes about 45 seconds to boot to the login screen. Freshly installed it can boot in about 30 seconds. |
agent (30) | ||
| 181564 | 2003-10-09 04:13:00 | well so whats wrong with mine then? about 4mins? 256 ram 40 gb? and dunno no more.... newly reformated..... :D beetle |
beetle (243) | ||
| 181565 | 2003-10-09 04:16:00 | I just timed my XP boot up from being completely powered off up to the login screen which took 27 secs, then after entering my password and hitting enter it took another 20 secs until the desktop was fully loaded and the hard drive activity light went out. This was using XP Home, on a 2.4 GHz P4 processor with 512 MB of RAM (PC2700) and a well-seasoned installation. |
Jen C (20) | ||
| 181566 | 2003-10-09 04:21:00 | i feel it was faster when it was sick, the puter that is.....what is making it so slow? going to check what happens on processors running at startup will let you know if i find anything beetle will not understand like. :D beetle |
beetle (243) | ||
| 181567 | 2003-10-09 04:22:00 | 4 minutes? has it been doing this from the point it was retuned to you or only since you started loading more programs onto it? As to an answer,One would have to be there in person to witness the boot-up/software enviorment to give a proper diagnoses. |
metla (154) | ||
| 181568 | 2003-10-09 04:26:00 | Have you fully loaded all your software again? You might want to have a look in Start > Run. Type in msconfig and then click on the Startup Tab (don't touch any other Tab). Make a list of what has ticks beside it and report back here with it - we can advise what can be safely disabled which can speed up the boot up process a bit. However, 4 minutes is a bit excessive. I would give the Tech a call who did your reformat and ask they what they thought of the 4 minute bootup time. |
Jen C (20) | ||
| 181569 | 2003-10-09 04:46:00 | yeah well it was slow when first got it back but was not really taking much notice just stoked it was back i guess, but today it seemed excessively slow..... and only added msn, yahoo messenger, avg, and mailwasher, as far as i am aware. it has works already on it, and a few icons on the desk top im not sure about and have not been able to catch up with my pc man..... will have a look jen c beetle |
beetle (243) | ||
| 181570 | 2003-10-09 04:57:00 | I would give Bootvis a go beetle if you feel up to it :) I can boot to the login screen in under 30secs, then just 10secs to get fully operational after that (after antivirus/firewall/mounting images etc). I would say the boot times are mostly affected by the speed of your hard drive. Now see I have a ATA100 7200rpm with 8mb cache drive, which is pretty quick. I don't know what you have there, what are the specs of the computer beetle ;) |
PoWa (203) | ||
| 181571 | 2003-10-09 05:00:00 | Hi beetle You certainly do have to waste a lot of time with your computers! If you have an on-board network card and you don't actually have a network, use device manager (or the XP equivalent) to disable it. A very long but otherwise normal boot is very often caused by the computer searching for the non-existent network. Cheers Billy 8-{) |
Billy T (70) | ||
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