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    17-21min boot. Win7, m9750.

    Discussion in 'Alienware Area-51/Aurora and Legacy Systems' started by j0epwn, Feb 18, 2011.

  1. j0epwn

    j0epwn Newbie

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    Hey guys, my laptop seems to have a serious problem booting. its an alienware m9750, 4gb ram, 7950.

    i've put Windows 7 on it, and since then its been 17-21min boot - which sucks (especially when half the time the video card will go artifact-mode, and requires re-bake, ha).

    Any suggestions? i've tried removing a stick of RAM, ive tried to enable boot logging. but there are ZERO boot entries in the Event Viewer (not a single 100 operation entry).

    Aside from a clean install of windows, any other suggestions?

    Might just go SSD, fresh install - and call it a day.

    Appreciate your time,
    JT
     
    j0epwn, Feb 18, 2011
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    darkloki Notebook Deity

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    Make sure there is no disk in the drive, and go through the "msconfig" statup menu to see what aps you have opening up on startup, i believe you can easily access this through typing msconfig in the search bar. :eek: SSD is overkill, I would try a 7200 rpm cheap drive to make sure it's no the HDD to begin with or another HDD, before going SSD. I say this because an SSD is expensive and I would hate for you to spend that kind of coinage only to find out later oh you gotta buy a new PC all together.
     
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    yeah i appreciate that,

    i've looked in msconfig menu, and changed startup options to only boot basic requirements, and other variations - still 20min boot. Even for safemode.
     
    j0epwn, Feb 21, 2011
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