windows booting really slow

[Cromewell]

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]

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]

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]

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

 

[StrangleHold]

Yeah it looks like it should.

 

[Archangel]

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

 

[Cromewell]

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

 

[Archangel]

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]

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]

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