LONG boot up time

So, i recently just put together the laptop in my signature and installed windows 7 ultimate 32 bit on it. the hard drive i put in it was used in my old gateway laptop which i had for a year. I wiped the data using a bios based program and installed the OS. Everything loads up quickly until i get to the animated windows screen where is says "starting windows". It stalls there for about 3 minutes and then loads up. any idea as to what is causing this?

 

Are you sure that your hardrive is OK ?
Does it make any noice ? (Which dosn't sound normal?)

 

START, right click COMPUTER, choose MANAGE

Click EVENT VIEWER > APPLICATION AND SERVICE LOGS > MICROSOFT > WINDOWS >DIAGNOSTICS-PERFORMANCE.

Scroll through the warnings and errors and report back what you found if you cannot figure it out. There should be one or more "XXXX took longer than expected to start...." messages.

 

That's one way, or try looking at the diagnostics tool built into the OS - that has an option to view the event manager and takes you there too
(see my sig)

 

Or try defragmenting the boot files?

I'm using PerfectDisk 10 <- it's perfect

 

I don't think defragmenting boot files will help. Try what two guys above wrote, diagnostic will probably help you.

 

Have you tried disabling networking devices startup in BIOS?
I think this may increase boot times significantly on some laptops if left on.

 

Yep, im getting A LOT of critical errors pertaining to boot peformance. ill paste a couple for you.

Windows has started up:
Boot Duration : 153718ms
IsDegradation : false
Incident Time (UTC) : ‎2009‎-‎12‎-‎15T23:11:43.624800200Z

Windows has started up:
Boot Duration : 157919ms
IsDegradation : false
Incident Time (UTC) : ‎2009‎-‎12‎-‎15T17:37:27.624800200Z

Windows has started up:
Boot Duration : 159159ms
IsDegradation : false
Incident Time (UTC) : ‎2009‎-‎12‎-‎12T04:08:13.624800200Z

There is NO hard drive activity whatsoever for about two minutes, then once my hard drive activity indicator lights up, the OS boots up immediately.

 

I was thinking this was a possibility as the hard drive im using wasn't wiped properly until i needed to install the OS on it in my new computer. I am familiar with perfect disk and will defragment the boot files and get back to you with the results.

 

boot file dfragmentation did not help.

 

1)Go to Control Panel >> Admin Tools >> Event Viewer
See if there are any critical errors
I suspect Harddisk Issue as Driver and Service load timeouts should be rather short.
If it is harddisk issue as said download the Western Digital CD DOS iso and boot from it to scan your Harddisk.

 

Sounds a bit like the boot time on my HDD before I went SSD...

What's your Anti virus software? I found that sadly KIS 2010 is a mess and impacts boot times...

 

i pasted some critical messages on the last page relating to my boot performance. where can i get the western digital iso at?

Right now im using avast home, but it was loading slow even before i installed an anti virus.


Like I stated earlier, on the "starting windows" load screen, it sits there for about 2 minutes with no hard drive activity and once my hard drive activity indicator shows, it boots up almost immediately. I really doubt that it's software causing it, as it takes literally 2-3 minutes to boot up. my computer is brand new and it has high end components.

 

BootTsVersion 2
BootStartTime 2009-12-16T05:45:39.624800200Z
BootEndTime 2009-12-16T05:49:39.670263600Z
SystemBootInstance 15
UserBootInstance 14
BootTime 181320
MainPathBootTime 135720
BootKernelInitTime 25
BootDriverInitTime 8393
BootDevicesInitTime 107912
BootPrefetchInitTime 23153
BootPrefetchBytes 188473344
BootAutoChkTime 0
BootSmssInitTime 6943
BootCriticalServicesInitTime 764
BootUserProfileProcessingTime 103
BootMachineProfileProcessingTime 162
BootExplorerInitTime 997
BootNumStartupApps 4
BootPostBootTime 45600
BootIsRebootAfterInstall false
BootRootCauseStepImprovementBits 0
BootRootCauseGradualImprovementBits 0
BootRootCauseStepDegradationBits 0
BootRootCauseGradualDegradationBits 0
BootIsDegradation false
BootIsStepDegradation false
BootIsGradualDegradation false
BootImprovementDelta 0
BootDegradationDelta 0
BootIsRootCauseIdentified false
OSLoaderDuration 2095
BootPNPInitStartTimeMS 25
BootPNPInitDuration 115689
OtherKernelInitDuration 1938
SystemPNPInitStartTimeMS 117623
SystemPNPInitDuration 617
SessionInitStartTimeMS 118245
Session0InitDuration 1744
Session1InitDuration 1509
SessionInitOtherDuration 3689
WinLogonStartTimeMS 125189
OtherLogonInitActivityDuration 9267
UserLogonWaitDuration 1257


Here is a detailed log of my most recent boot, as you can see (in bold) the computer seemingly idles at the windows start splash for several minutes.

 

I think that time is the "sum of all individual times taken" - if its been happening from the start, possibly hardware that responds slowly or a bad driver...

 

K, so i ran the western digital lifeguard scanner and it stopped immediately with an error code that says "Cable test::Write sector error". = /

 

OK.... "write sector error" - did you google it, sounds like disc damage to me?

 

Didn't come to any conclusions about it. Anyone have any ideas?

 

I did a realy quick search and found this http://support.wdc.com/techinfo/general/errorcodes.asp

Try to find it via Error code...
(Use Ctrl + F to search)

 

disable/remove all hw components that you can. bluetooth. wireless. lan. webcam. etc. in the bios at best.

and see if it boots faster then.

if it's slow withOUT the disk light glowing for a long time, it's the initialisation of some hw taking long.

my desktop took > 2min to start vista, on a raid0 with two ssds. i got angry as my subnotebook took around 40sec with a single ssd, and a quarter of the cpu power (and half the ram).

i opened the desktop, and took anything off the mainboard i could (cardreader, additional usb ports, infrared receiver, etc etc).

after doing so, it booted in less than 30 secs.


i never plugged in the hw again

 

Did you use this Data Lifeguard Diagnostic for DOS (CD)?

 

I used the version for windows.

 

Windows one is useless because it runs in Windows there is a lot of things it can no longer do.
So download the one for DOS burn it as an image and boot from it.