Acer 5920 Boot Times

I'm not sure if my laptop has always booted like this, but it feels like the boot times into Vista Home Premium has got slower.

Currently, I have installed the 163.44 BETA BIOSHOCK drivers, and I get from

Power On to Desktop: 45 secs

During the next minute exactly, I can use the desktop as normal (no slowdowns) , until the screen flickers, at this point the welcome screen loads, epowering utilities follow, finally followed by the sidebar.

So 1m 45 secs till everything has loaded.

But what is causing this facilities to take so long loading? I have done quite a few drive restores, and when I first had this laptop, I remember the screen used to flicker almost as soon as I got to the desktop and the taskbar, and sidebar would instantly load all in about 45 seconds. I've restored twice more now, and the speed stays the same as currently (slow).

Could it be possible that when using eRecovery, something from a previous installation is slowing the bootup?

 

yeh this is something i noticed after i did my first system restore ....my notebook took ages to boot and programs seemed like they took an age to load compared with when i first got the laptop

ive uninstalled norton but didnt use the norton uninstaller but i installed all the updates and defragged the registry and hdd and flashed the bios

since i flashed the bios to the latest it does seem to have got faster boot wise and program seem to work quicker as well but maybe thats down to defragging the registry a couple of times

 

I've the latest BIOS, graphic card drivers (which I have reinstalled a few times). Nothing increases the speed.

Note boot time stays the same regardless of what programs I install. With XP, with every new piece of software, the boot usually took longer each time.

I've also noticed that sometimes I try and use eRecovery, instead of loading the recovery partition upon restart, the laptop simply boots into Windows Vista again. It takes a few times till the recovery partition responds.

I'll keep looking for a solution to this.

 

Yes .It take nearly 2 min .
BTW tweak some of your startup programs

 

Not sure if this has anything to do with the actually boot time, but there is a "boot delay" option under msconfig. I changed it to 3.

 

Found the problem!!!

I was reading some complaints about slow Vista Boots, and a frequent issue was "networking". The slow boot times I was encountering were due to the wireless searching for a connection. When connecting my router to the laptop using an Ethernet cable, everything loaded as soon as I reached the desktop. 45 seconds flat from notebook off to useable.

Still, there was nothing wrong with the wireless when I had the laptop new, so I think I'll investigate what is causing the wireless internet to hold up boot times and post back.

 

Ok..BTW Vista Superfetch also have issue

 

I think this is just one small factor. I've had my notebook booting pretty fast even with wireless connection.

 

It's by no means slow at 1m 45, but it could be so much faster. It seems nothing can load until the Network connections icon in the taskbar turns blue, instead of a computer with a red cross through it.
With an ethernet cable, it means the internet is always on, thus Vista loads in 45 seconds flat. Otherwise, Vista is useable after 45 seconds, but not everything has loaded.

Its just a small annoying problem. I will fix it somehow.

 

i hope you fix it darkspark it. coz there is no driver on wireless card that will run in start up that you will not use the epower. coz on xp its boot fast. i dont have epower on xp any acer utilities software. in vista if i uninstall the enet so that the wireless will startup by itself not on epower. the wireless will not startup when the enet is uninstall. if i can run the wireless without the enet. it will boot fast. i dont want the epower but i dont have choice i need to use it for the wireless to start. i dont know if im right. this what happen when i try figure it out.

sorry my english is bad!

 

I'm not sure what I did, but its now booting with everything loaded in about 50 seconds. I changed the ethernet cable I was using and reinstalled the gigabit ethernet drivers, and upgraded the firmware on my router but other than that, I can't see why its booting up fast now.

To test, I tried starting up with the new ethernet cable plugged in. It's a Belkin with a light built into the cable that flashes when data is being trasferred. I then pulled it out before restarting the computer. When I reached the Welcome screen, it hung there slightly longer than it usually does (3 seconds as opposed to 0.5 seconds) then the desktop loaded, and everything in the taskbar loaded all at once.

The computer doesn't seem to be waiting for the wireless to connect, before loading the welcome screen and taskbar programs anymore. A good thing.

 

My boottime from powerbutton to logon screen is 67 seconds

And not to forget to say is that this harddisk is optimized with O&O defrag's Complete/Access method.
Also remark that superfetch won't work, nor even after a fresh install. I guess it is a bug in the BIOS. After the logon the performance of my notebook is good. Boottimes where equal with and without superfetch enabled. Also after running some command prompt items like ...processidletasks and defrag -b %systemroot%. It won't matter and lower than 67 seconds is not possible, but it don't matter because I reboot my notebook after 24 hours of total uptime (6 or 7 sessions) and resuming from sleep is within 3 a 4 seconds and I'm ready. So 6 times 3 seconds is 18 seconds and 1 time 67 = 67 + 18 = 85 seconds for 7 times. 85/7=12,14 seconds average and this means the productivity.

Boottimes on laptops are not very heavy weigthed. Most of you rather prefer sleep/hibernation?
Hibernation is very fast here and give it 4 a 5 seconds to load in the data.
My POST timing is 14,5 seconds.

 

My boot times are between 50-55 secs