windows booting really slow

**Archangel** · 12-23-2007, 01:20 PM

Well.. I've never paid much attention to it, till yesterday, where I rebuilt one of my old pc's for my aunt.
the pc I rebuild was a 1400+ AMD palomino, running at 1050MHz (due to the motherboard Having a 100MHz fsb, not 133MHz.)
the motherboard is a MSI K7T pro2, and it has 1.5Gb (3x 512Mb) SDRAM pc133 (running at 100mhz)

the funny thing is.. that pc starts up windows quite a lot faster than my current pc.

Q6600
4Gb pc6400 RAM
Asus P5N32-SLI Premium motherboard

the old pc is running windows Xp 32bit, this one is running windows xp pro x64. (tough, it was about the same speed on startup with 32bit's windows installed)
does anyone of you has any idea what might be causing this? because i'm fairly sure this cant be right.

my old 4800+ X2 pc with 2Gb ramstarted windows up faster than the old one, so why is this one slower?

windowsvista · 12-23-2007, 01:25 PM

to get your pc starting quick you can defrag it clean up unwanted files look in msconfig for things delete cookies history temp internet files and do a virus scan disk cleanup.

**Archangel** · 12-23-2007, 01:49 PM

the windows installation on both pc's is new (2 days old now), so it cant be fragementated just yet. or at least, not THAT badly I think

windowsvista · 12-23-2007, 01:51 PM

i dont know maybe the specs on the old pc suit it maybe the good one cant handle some things that is weird thogh.

**oscaryu1** · 12-23-2007, 02:07 PM

Slow as in bootup or slow as in loading games/files?

windowsvista · 12-23-2007, 02:11 PM

yes i think he/she is meaning booting up the title says it all

**oscaryu1** · 12-23-2007, 02:21 PM

Hmm.... thank you windowsvista...

Some computers are just faster than each other. For example, I have a 1.3GHz P4 that's booting faster than my E4300 or my E2140. It's all a matter of hardware... HDD's faster than each other, lower CAS latencies, ect.

**Archangel** · 12-23-2007, 03:00 PM

well.. both a AMD Palomino 1050MHz with 1,5Gb SDRAM pc100 (using a 5400rpm HDD)
and a 4800+ X2 (s939) with 1,5Gb pc3200 RAM and a 7200rpm HDD 16mb cache (exacly the one I'm using now)

both boot up faster (by quite a margin) than my current system Q6600, 4gb ram with a 7200rpm 16mb cache.

something cant be right I think

windowsvista · 12-23-2007, 03:06 PM

Maybe your old computer feels happy!!!

TFT · 12-23-2007, 03:17 PM

Do you have more Processes starting on your more powerful comp? and are there any auto startup programs.
Have they both got the same anti virus programs, mine takes an age to sort itself out.

12-23-2007, 01:20 PM	#1 (permalink)
Archangel Moderator Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Netherlands Age: 21 Posts: 8,256	windows booting really slow Well.. I've never paid much attention to it, till yesterday, where I rebuilt one of my old pc's for my aunt. the pc I rebuild was a 1400+ AMD palomino, running at 1050MHz (due to the motherboard Having a 100MHz fsb, not 133MHz.) the motherboard is a MSI K7T pro2, and it has 1.5Gb (3x 512Mb) SDRAM pc133 (running at 100mhz) the funny thing is.. that pc starts up windows quite a lot faster than my current pc. Q6600 4Gb pc6400 RAM Asus P5N32-SLI Premium motherboard the old pc is running windows Xp 32bit, this one is running windows xp pro x64. (tough, it was about the same speed on startup with 32bit's windows installed) does anyone of you has any idea what might be causing this? because i'm fairly sure this cant be right. my old 4800+ X2 pc with 2Gb ramstarted windows up faster than the old one, so why is this one slower? __________________ 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

12-23-2007, 01:49 PM	#3 (permalink)
Archangel Moderator Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Netherlands Age: 21 Posts: 8,256	the windows installation on both pc's is new (2 days old now), so it cant be fragementated just yet. or at least, not THAT badly I think __________________ 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

12-23-2007, 02:07 PM	#5 (permalink)
oscaryu1 Moderator Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Houston, Texas Age: 13 Posts: 10,313	Slow as in bootup or slow as in loading games/files? __________________ Core 2 Duo E2140 1.6GHz @ 3.04GHz GA-P31-DS3L pqi Turbo CL4 DDR2-800 2GB Sapphire HD3850 256MB Sony Writemaster DVD Burner EIDE Seagate Barracuda 80GB 7200.9 8MB SATII

12-23-2007, 02:21 PM	#7 (permalink)
oscaryu1 Moderator Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Houston, Texas Age: 13 Posts: 10,313	Hmm.... thank you windowsvista... Some computers are just faster than each other. For example, I have a 1.3GHz P4 that's booting faster than my E4300 or my E2140. It's all a matter of hardware... HDD's faster than each other, lower CAS latencies, ect. __________________ Core 2 Duo E2140 1.6GHz @ 3.04GHz GA-P31-DS3L pqi Turbo CL4 DDR2-800 2GB Sapphire HD3850 256MB Sony Writemaster DVD Burner EIDE Seagate Barracuda 80GB 7200.9 8MB SATII

12-23-2007, 03:00 PM	#8 (permalink)
Archangel Moderator Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Netherlands Age: 21 Posts: 8,256	well.. both a AMD Palomino 1050MHz with 1,5Gb SDRAM pc100 (using a 5400rpm HDD) and a 4800+ X2 (s939) with 1,5Gb pc3200 RAM and a 7200rpm HDD 16mb cache (exacly the one I'm using now) both boot up faster (by quite a margin) than my current system Q6600, 4gb ram with a 7200rpm 16mb cache. something cant be right I think __________________ 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

12-23-2007, 01:25 PM	#2 (permalink)
windowsvista banned Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: C:/windows Age: 14 Posts: 592	to get your pc starting quick you can defrag it clean up unwanted files look in msconfig for things delete cookies history temp internet files and do a virus scan disk cleanup.

12-23-2007, 01:51 PM	#4 (permalink)
windowsvista banned Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: C:/windows Age: 14 Posts: 592	i dont know maybe the specs on the old pc suit it maybe the good one cant handle some things that is weird thogh.

12-23-2007, 02:11 PM	#6 (permalink)
windowsvista banned Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: C:/windows Age: 14 Posts: 592	yes i think he/she is meaning booting up the title says it all

12-23-2007, 03:06 PM	#9 (permalink)
windowsvista banned Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: C:/windows Age: 14 Posts: 592	Maybe your old computer feels happy!!!

12-23-2007, 03:17 PM	#10 (permalink)
TFT Diamond Member Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Yorkshire, UK Posts: 2,260	Do you have more Processes starting on your more powerful comp? and are there any auto startup programs. Have they both got the same anti virus programs, mine takes an age to sort itself out. __________________ Operator: Dave Operating System: XP Professional SP2 Processor: Intel E6750 Core Duo@3.20GHz Graphics: Nvidia 8500GT C: Drive 500GB D: Drive 250GB Memory: 2GB

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