windows booting really slow

**Cromewell** · 12-23-2007, 08:12 PM

You have to double click the controller in device manager to see the speed setting for it. The secondary controller on this PC is running UDMA2

StrangleHold · 12-23-2007, 08:25 PM

Where is says Nvidia nForce 590/570/550 Serial controller or Primary IDE controller depending on if you have a IDE or Sata harddrive, like Cromewell said double click it till you find the one your harddrive is on.

**Archangel** · 12-23-2007, 11:55 PM

I suppose the primary one is my hdd and the secondary one is my Optical drive (wich is on SATA too)
should I move the dvd drive onto its own controller?

**Cromewell** · 12-24-2007, 03:38 AM

It should be fine where it is. It shouldn't have any effect on your boot time.

StrangleHold · 12-24-2007, 04:02 AM

Yeah it looks like it should.

**Archangel** · 12-24-2007, 02:59 PM

so,.. no idea's left why it could be doing this?

**Cromewell** · 12-24-2007, 04:41 PM

You could try doing the stuff in here: http://arstechnica.com/guides/tweaks/sgp-tweaks.ars

**Archangel** · 12-25-2007, 08:04 PM

got a tip today, and it made the booting indeed faster. my motherboard has 2 Lan ports, of wich only 1 is in use. (but both were enabled) appearantly windows waits for some DHCP message or so, (I listened when i was told, but its all gone again by now

) till it times out, wich was 30 seconds or so. so it kept waiting for a signal on the not connected port, till it timed out. I disabled that port, and it was faster indeed

still a tad slower than my old pc, but I gues that's because this motherboard just has more stuff onboard

houlie · 12-26-2007, 07:57 AM

i think everyones run into this problem, and please excuse me if i hit some points that were already mentioned but i did not feel like reading the whole post. anyhow your computer's registry keys become null and void or frag'd or build up and need to be cleaned. i've used uniblue to fix my keys. it also has a few other functions to protect, clean and quicken your computer.

WhiteFireDragon · 12-26-2007, 08:17 AM

you probably wont try this, but you can get another HD and set it up in raid-0 to decrease the boot time

12-23-2007, 08:12 PM	#21 (permalink)
Cromewell Moderator Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Canada Age: 25 Posts: 10,368	You have to double click the controller in device manager to see the speed setting for it. The secondary controller on this PC is running UDMA2 __________________ You know what the chain of command is? It's the chain I go get and beat you with 'til ya understand who's in ruttin' command here. www.userfriendly.org

12-23-2007, 08:25 PM	#22 (permalink)
StrangleHold Diamond Member Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: And you think your safe! Posts: 7,992	Where is says Nvidia nForce 590/570/550 Serial controller or Primary IDE controller depending on if you have a IDE or Sata harddrive, like Cromewell said double click it till you find the one your harddrive is on. __________________ NZXT Apollo Athlon 64 X2 5600 3.3ghz. Gigabyte GA MA770 DS3 G Skill DDR2 1066 944mhz. 4gb. PNY 8800GT/VD964 W/D RE2 Sata 3.0 500gb. There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.

12-23-2007, 11:55 PM	#23 (permalink)
Archangel Moderator Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Netherlands Age: 21 Posts: 8,256	I suppose the primary one is my hdd and the secondary one is my Optical drive (wich is on SATA too) should I move the dvd drive onto its own controller? __________________ Newton is dead, Einstein is dead, I don't feel very well either Xfire - Mirrari Intel Q6600 ( @3.6GHz) Asus Triton 79 Amazing 549/3200 4x 1Gb Corsair XMS2 DDR800 Asus Maximus Formula Asus & Sapphire HD3870 512Mb ( 850/1180 ) Corsair HX620W PSU

12-24-2007, 03:38 AM	#24 (permalink)
Cromewell Moderator Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Canada Age: 25 Posts: 10,368	It should be fine where it is. It shouldn't have any effect on your boot time. __________________ You know what the chain of command is? It's the chain I go get and beat you with 'til ya understand who's in ruttin' command here. www.userfriendly.org

12-24-2007, 04:02 AM	#25 (permalink)
StrangleHold Diamond Member Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: And you think your safe! Posts: 7,992	Yeah it looks like it should. __________________ NZXT Apollo Athlon 64 X2 5600 3.3ghz. Gigabyte GA MA770 DS3 G Skill DDR2 1066 944mhz. 4gb. PNY 8800GT/VD964 W/D RE2 Sata 3.0 500gb. There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.

12-24-2007, 02:59 PM	#26 (permalink)
Archangel Moderator Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Netherlands Age: 21 Posts: 8,256	so,.. no idea's left why it could be doing this? __________________ Newton is dead, Einstein is dead, I don't feel very well either Xfire - Mirrari Intel Q6600 ( @3.6GHz) Asus Triton 79 Amazing 549/3200 4x 1Gb Corsair XMS2 DDR800 Asus Maximus Formula Asus & Sapphire HD3870 512Mb ( 850/1180 ) Corsair HX620W PSU

12-24-2007, 04:41 PM	#27 (permalink)
Cromewell Moderator Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Canada Age: 25 Posts: 10,368	You could try doing the stuff in here: http://arstechnica.com/guides/tweaks/sgp-tweaks.ars __________________ You know what the chain of command is? It's the chain I go get and beat you with 'til ya understand who's in ruttin' command here. www.userfriendly.org Last edited by Cromewell; 12-24-2007 at 04:47 PM. Reason: wrong link pasted

12-25-2007, 08:04 PM	#28 (permalink)
Archangel Moderator Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Netherlands Age: 21 Posts: 8,256	got a tip today, and it made the booting indeed faster. my motherboard has 2 Lan ports, of wich only 1 is in use. (but both were enabled) appearantly windows waits for some DHCP message or so, (I listened when i was told, but its all gone again by now ) till it times out, wich was 30 seconds or so. so it kept waiting for a signal on the not connected port, till it timed out. I disabled that port, and it was faster indeed still a tad slower than my old pc, but I gues that's because this motherboard just has more stuff onboard __________________ Newton is dead, Einstein is dead, I don't feel very well either Xfire - Mirrari Intel Q6600 ( @3.6GHz) Asus Triton 79 Amazing 549/3200 4x 1Gb Corsair XMS2 DDR800 Asus Maximus Formula Asus & Sapphire HD3870 512Mb ( 850/1180 ) Corsair HX620W PSU

12-26-2007, 07:57 AM	#29 (permalink)
houlie New Member Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 6	i think everyones run into this problem, and please excuse me if i hit some points that were already mentioned but i did not feel like reading the whole post. anyhow your computer's registry keys become null and void or frag'd or build up and need to be cleaned. i've used uniblue to fix my keys. it also has a few other functions to protect, clean and quicken your computer. __________________ HOULIE GEEK If your not sure what computer you want, research it. http://houlie.justaleaf.hop.clickbank.net/

12-26-2007, 08:17 AM	#30 (permalink)
WhiteFireDragon Platinum Member Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 725	you probably wont try this, but you can get another HD and set it up in raid-0 to decrease the boot time

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