windows booting really slow

Archangel

Archangel

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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? :(
 
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.
 
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
 
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.
 
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 :(
 
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.
 
Archangel said:
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 :(
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Well something has to be wrong here too. 1.3 - 1.43GHz (OC'd), 512MB SD, 20GB 2MB, ect...

And my E2140 is all faster and SATA...

I don't get it either... maybe because CAS is lower? :confused:
 
Archangel said:
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 :(
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Are you talking about the amount of time it takes the bios to do the hardware check or how long it takes once Windows starts to boot off the harddrive?
 
StrangleHold said:
Are you talking about the amount of time it takes the bios to do the hardware check or how long it takes once Windows starts to boot off the harddrive?
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I mean the screen with the windows icon on it, and that running bar under it.
for example, the 4800+ pc used to do 4 runs of that bar, before contnue-ing to the desktop and finnish the startup. this one doe 13-14 runs of that bar.



also, isnt the CAS latency etc counted in clocks? aka, a cas latency of 3 is 3 clocks, 5 is 5 clocks etc? I mean, that would mean that ddr ram with a cas latency of 2.5 @ 400MHz be just as big as a CAS latency of 5 @ 800MHz, wouldnt it? I dont know exacly how it works, so its just a wild gues there :o but if its like that, it cant be a difference in latency's or so beeing the cause I think
 
Yea its the time in the number of clocks that goes by between the memory controller and the memory to access the data, but still it shouldnt make a noticable amount of time for windows to boot. Sure you dont have a program loading that might be slowing it down.

Have you checked under your IDE/Sata controllers to see what mode your harddrive is running in?
 
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Depends in the drive, if its a IDE drive it should be atleast UDMA 4 or 5. If its a Sata it should say something like Serial ATA Generation 2 or 1.5. Control Panel-System-Hardware- Device Manager-IDE/Sata Controllers.
 
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the drive is an SATA 2 300 drive. but the list doesnt show anything like that :x

listpart1.jpg


listpart2.jpg


thats the whole list (except the audio part, but that works anyway)
the disabled thing is the w-lan adapter
 
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