Dv7t takes long time to boot?

I have had this computer about 7 months and just as the nature of what I use this notebook for I seldom shut down and restart. But on the occasion that I do restart I recently find that it takes quite a long time to restart. In the order of three minutes. That seems quite a bit longer than normal to me and certainly longer than it previously took. In the notebooks defense I am booting up with all four USB ports occupied. One wireless mouse /keyboard, one verizon USB 760 modem and two USB video cards. Is it reasonable to think that three minutes to boot is normal for this setup? The only reason I am concerned is I have seen several threads that talk about hanging on boot and some found harddrive failure the cause and others had problems with USB devices being found to be the cause while others seem to think it is due to memory related issues. I was not overly concerned untill yesterday when my system just locked up while running for no discernable reason and I noticed this inordinately long bootup time as I did a fresh start after a hard power off. Anyone else notice similar issues when using USB devices? Maybe I am borrowing trouble as the notebook does eventually boot up without issue after hanging on the black display with only the "press esc for start menue" displayed for about three minutes. It finally boots and runs fine thereafter except for the one not responding issue yesterday. What do you all think?

 

How long does it take with everything unplugged?

 

I did a little experiment to see what may be causing the delay on boot by starting without the USB 760 modem installed in the usb port. It made all the difference. I think 30 seconds to boot. Go figure! Who knew. I still dont know what caused the system to lock up though. It did that again today also. Just stoped responding. No reason it seemed for that. Is there a way to look at a log file in Win 7 to get some idea of what may be going on there? Thanks for any advice.

 

It's called event viewer. Good luck with that though.

 

use these to trace what causing the slow boot and probably speed up your boot time.

Link: How to speed up boot process under Windows Vista or Windows 7 | Trace Windows 7 boot/shutdown/hibernate/standby/resume issues

 

I was having this problem with my new dv7 and discovered I wasn't holding the switch long enough when I turned it on. No problem since then, with or without anything plugged into it. Hope this helps.

 

Don't hold it too long, if it is in Hibernate/Standby holding for 5 seconds is a hard reset. It wont hurt anything usually though. Sometimes a computer can take longer to come out of hibernation than just start from scratch...