Toshiba slow start up

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zrp

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I have a 3 year old Toshiba laptop, not sure of the model. My problem is it takes the computer about 20 minutes to actually start after turning it on, it makes no noise, the light on the start up button does come on, but the computer itself doesn't do a thing for about 20 minutes. After it starts it will perform normal, but will freeze up after using it for a while, usually after about 45 minutes to 1.5 hours. Does anybody have a idea what could cause this?
 
perhaps your hard drive is going bad, this would cause increased load times in addition your computer would also freeze up. If it's going bad on initial power up the reason it could take so long is because the hard drive never actually powers up or doesn't power up properly.
 
Thanks guys, I'm out of town right now for work and will not be home until thursday, when i get home i'll do the hjt-log and see if anything shows up.
 
zrp said:
I have a 3 year old Toshiba laptop, not sure of the model. My problem is it takes the computer about 20 minutes to actually start after turning it on, it makes no noise, the light on the start up button does come on, but the computer itself doesn't do a thing for about 20 minutes. After it starts it will perform normal, but will freeze up after using it for a while, usually after about 45 minutes to 1.5 hours. Does anybody have a idea what could cause this?
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AdmnPower - An HDD would not be an slow startup. It would slow startup @ loading POST and slow Windows Booting

Zangetsu - HJT will not help if it's before Windows. I'm guessing even removing your HDD and booting like that that the problem will keep.

zrp - Don't bother. If it's slow at "turning on that the screen has an TOSHIBA message" then don't even bother.

I suggest going to BIOS and turning off "Self on auto test"
 
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