Start Up taking a very long time

Hey, sorry for making a seperate thread, but the problem is different now
Well after reformatting, when I turn the computer on it goes past the bios and on the progress bar (before OS) it is taking a stupidly long time - ie 5-10minutes.
Now, i installed on the drivers and as far as I know the correct BIOS. Could anyone help me at all? What the problem could be? I ran ccleaner to see if the C: was shagged but it seems ok. Perhaps the bios isnt set up correctly or something or the drivers are wrong?

Im rather annoyed, it used to do it in seconds. I could get around this by just never turning it off but yeah, not really something I wish to do nor feel safe doing anyway.

For whatever help you suggest, please give detailed answers so i know exactly how to do it - especially if its to do with the BIOS.

thanks

 

Could you please post us your notebooks specifications. We do not even know which model it is. So we cannot really help you out here.

 

Model a1645
512ram
AMD Turion 64Mobile Tech MT-28 798Mhz
HD is Fujitsu MHT2080AT?
XP SP2

er what exactly do you want in the specs (considering im just going to read it off device manager since i dont know what the bus host controllers, etc are).

Texas Instruments OHCI Compliant IEEE 1394 Host Controller
Philips DVD+-RW SDVD8431

 

Have you defragged your HDD? Or maby you have installed wrong driver or something is missing which seems unlikely, assuming you took the drivers from fujitsu site. In this case I strongly recommend you familiarize yourself to this excellent guide. It covers everything from correct installation of windows to optimizing the system. http://www.tweakguides.com/TGTC.html

 

I dont suppose you could point me to the correct driver if I give you the link?
http://www.fujitsu-siemens.com/support/linkapplication.html?LNG=EN&ID=146

I installed the top BIOS one (and assumed the other ones were the same one, just in a different format). I ran that, and then it restarted. Then I ran deskupdate which supposedly updates teh remaining drivers (and seemed to from what I saw).


I reformatted my HardDrive so I cant see a defrag doing much? Oh and to reformat I didnt use the Recovery Disc that came with the laptop but used a standard one. Perhaps the Recovery Disc has something else that I need installed? I can get access to it in a few days and could redo it? But i didnt think it was a problem.

 

As I said there's propably nothing wrong with your drivers if you took them from there..

After fresh installation of Windows and drivers, defragging the HDD moves all important system files at beginning of the drive where drive access is fastest. So it certainly speeds up things and affects startup time, but you are propably correct in that it's not the whole issue in this case. Defragging still won't hurt.

Have you updated Windows itself. Have you also checked your system event logs and system information tool if you see any problems? Have checked the power settings, paging file setting, disk drive settings...There's so much things that might be "wrong". So again, read the guide. I don't think the recovery disk contains anything you need. What it may have is that the Windows in it have been already set up for your laptop.

 

Go to the BIOS setup and see whether your HardDrive is in the PIO mode.I should be set to DMA.
Also find the controllers in the device manager and make sure they are on DMA mode too.

 

Oh that... Why you little.. *Stamps the little worm*

 

Ok checked the controllers in :
IDE ATA/ATAPI Controllers - all set to DMA

Defragging the drive at the moment for any possible errors, will check the bios once its done

 

Ok ive finished defragging. BIOS info:
Primary IDE Master: Primry Slave Secondary IDE Master
Type Auto [NOT DETECTED] Auto
LBA Auto Auto
Block(MST) Auto Auto
PIO Mode Auto Auto
SMART Auto Auto
32Bit data transfer Enabled Enabled

SecondarySlave not detected




Odd, that it just booted almost instantly to the windows boot part (as i said it was slowed drastically after BIOS and before WIndows - that progress bar that normally takes less than a second.). Going to recheck it now again

Hopefully its fixed, dont know hwy, i havent done anything except the defrag... which surely cant have caused it... :/

EDIT: ok it booted up fast again, seems to be fine now.

Thanks guys oh and can you just say if my BIOS setups is correct. From what I could see there was no option for DMA so im assuing auto is DMA/ detect what is set nd 0/1/2/3/4 is PIO.