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    Long Pause on win7 bootup help!

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by Copyright, Sep 17, 2011.

  1. Copyright

    Copyright Notebook Consultant

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    My g/fs laptop started getting this long pause before the spinning windows 7 logo would appear. Since I was in the mood to get her an ugprade I popped in a Momentus XT 500gb for her and took her 250gb to upgrade my old 8510W. So I reloaded her machine and sure enough I got the same long pause. I think its some sort of windows update that is doing it. Possibly after SP1. My big machine does not do this. Any ideas? This is on a Dell Studio 1458. Thx for any help!
     
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    James D Notebook Prophet

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    You put new drive and installed Windows 7 on it and it still has pause, am I right?

    Maybe you should check in BIOS if HDD is th first device in boot order? I have feeling that laptop is trying to give chance to peripherals or CD/DVD drive to boot smth before start boot hard drive.
    If not then update BIOS, set it to default values and if this won't help then pray.
     
    James D, Sep 19, 2011
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