Guest a Posted September 27, 2007 Posted September 27, 2007 I have an HP desktop that's about 2 years old (P4-2.99Ghz). It have 1.5 gb of memory. The problem is that it boots EXTREMELY slowly even in SAFE mode. Once it's running it performs OK. I've run AV and anti-spyware on the box as well as System Mechanic and CCLEANER to clean the registry. I have also defragmented the hard drive. Is it possible that this is a hardware issue? memory? motherboard? HDD? If it could be hardware what's the best way to diagnosis the problem?
Guest Gerry Posted September 27, 2007 Posted September 27, 2007 Re: Extremely Slow Boot What Error / Warning reports ( if any ) appear in the System log in Event Viewer when you last booted the machine? Please post copies of all Error and Warning Reports appearing in the System and Application logs in Event Viewer for the last boot. No Information Reports or Duplicates please. Indicate which also appear in a previous boot. You can access Event Viewer by selecting Start, Control Panel, Administrative Tools, and Event Viewer. When researching the meaning of the error, information regarding Event ID, Source and Description are important. HOW TO: View and Manage Event Logs in Event Viewer in Windows XP http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308427/en-us Part of the Description of the error will include a link, which you should double click for further information. You can copy using copy and paste. Often the link will, however, say there is no further information. http://go.microsoft.com/fw.link/events.asp (Please note the hyperlink above is for illustration purposes only) A tip for posting copies of Error Reports! Run Event Viewer and double click on the error you want to copy. In the window, which appears is a button resembling two pages. Click the button and close Event Viewer.Now start your message (email) and do a paste into the body of the message. Make sure this is the first paste after exiting from Event Viewer. -- Hope this helps. Gerry ~~~~ FCA Stourport, England Enquire, plan and execute ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ a wrote: > I have an HP desktop that's about 2 years old (P4-2.99Ghz). It have > 1.5 gb of memory. > > The problem is that it boots EXTREMELY slowly even in SAFE mode. > > Once it's running it performs OK. > > I've run AV and anti-spyware on the box as well as System Mechanic and > CCLEANER to clean the registry. > > I have also defragmented the hard drive. > > Is it possible that this is a hardware issue? memory? motherboard? > HDD? > If it could be hardware what's the best way to diagnosis the problem?
Guest Poprivet Posted September 27, 2007 Posted September 27, 2007 Re: Extremely Slow Boot a wrote: > I have an HP desktop that's about 2 years old (P4-2.99Ghz). It have > 1.5 gb of memory. > > The problem is that it boots EXTREMELY slowly even in SAFE mode. > > Once it's running it performs OK. > > I've run AV and anti-spyware on the box as well as System Mechanic and > CCLEANER to clean the registry. > > I have also defragmented the hard drive. > > Is it possible that this is a hardware issue? memory? motherboard? > HDD? > If it could be hardware what's the best way to diagnosis the problem? How slow is slow? Be very specific. Any messages during the bootup? What are they? What sort of applications do you have installed? Any idea what loads at startup? Does is shut down OK?
Guest Ken Blake, MVP Posted September 27, 2007 Posted September 27, 2007 Re: Extremely Slow Boot On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 21:44:46 -0400, "a" <a@a.com> wrote: > I have an HP desktop that's about 2 years old (P4-2.99Ghz). It have 1.5 gb > of memory. > > The problem is that it boots EXTREMELY slowly even in SAFE mode. Exactly how slowly is "EXTREMELY slowly"? > Once it's running it performs OK. My personal view is that the attention many people pay to how long it takes to boot is unwarranted. Assuming that the computer's speed is otherwise satisfactory, it may not be worth worrying about. Most people start their computers once a day or even less frequently. In the overall scheme of things, even a few minutes to start up isn't very important. Personally I power on my computer when I get up in the morning, then go get my coffee. When I come back, it's done booting. I don't know how long it took to boot and I don't care. However if you do want to address it, it may be because of what programs start automatically, and you may want to stop some of them from starting that way. On each program you don't want to start automatically, check its Options to see if it has the choice not to start (make sure you actually choose the option not to run it, not just a "don't show icon" option). Many can easily and best be stopped that way. If that doesn't work, run MSCONFIG from the Start | Run line, and on the Startup tab, uncheck the programs you don't want to start automatically. However, if I were you, I wouldn't do this just for the purpose of running the minimum number of programs. Despite what many people tell you, you should be concerned, not with how *many* of these programs you run, but *which*. Some of them can hurt performance severely, but others have no effect on performance. Don't just stop programs from running willy-nilly. What you should do is determine what each program is, what its value is to you, and what the cost in performance is of its running all the time. You can get more information about these at http://castlecops.com/StartupList.html. If you can't find it there, try google searches and ask about specifics here. Once you have that information, you can make an intelligent informed decision about what you want to keep and what you want to get rid of. -- Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP Windows - Shell/User Please Reply to the Newsgroup
Guest Unknown Posted September 27, 2007 Posted September 27, 2007 Re: Extremely Slow Boot Have you run disk cleanup? "a" <a@a.com> wrote in message news:46fb0b09$0$11089$4c368faf@roadrunner.com... >I have an HP desktop that's about 2 years old (P4-2.99Ghz). It have 1.5 gb > of memory. > > The problem is that it boots EXTREMELY slowly even in SAFE mode. > > Once it's running it performs OK. > > I've run AV and anti-spyware on the box as well as System Mechanic and > CCLEANER to clean the registry. > > I have also defragmented the hard drive. > > Is it possible that this is a hardware issue? memory? motherboard? HDD? > > If it could be hardware what's the best way to diagnosis the problem? >
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