Why is my system taking 7-8 min to boot?

Question

I have tried everything from scan disk,defrag,scan reg,removing start- up programs.I need help from a geek.

Answer 1

You have a problem, either with a corrupt BIOS or a corrupt OS. If you get through the BIOS screen (black screen with written information on it) quickly but then your PC hangs at the colored (oops, screen of color) for a long time then your OS is having difficulty loading drivers. I would right click on "my computer", then "properties", "hardware", device manager and see if you have any yellow exclamation marks. If so, try updating the drivers; if not, delete a few devices starting with sound controllers. Don't worry, they'll come back when your PC boots back up. Do them 1 at a time, if you hit on a "bad" one the PC will boot quickly until it starts to load the driver. You will know this is the problem. It is possible that one of your devices have failed.

Good Luck

Answer 2

I don't know enough about your PC to be specific. So, all I can do is tell you about a situation I had. My Dell came with Norton Internet Security 2005 installed on it. When I got ready to renew my virus update subscription, I also "upgraded" to Norton Internet Security 2007. It was a huge mistake as my boot-up time more than doubled and I lost Drive Letter Access (DLA) to my CD Burner due to a software conflict between Sonic (Roxio) and Norton.

I got rid of Norton completely (they have a great uninstaller on their website) and downloaded the free version of Avast. My PC boots up incredibly fast and the Avast anti-virus software works great so far (almost 6 months).

Also, I use and recommend Registry Fix (I hear Registry Mechanic is good too), and AdAware SE (spyware scanner). Nothing speeds up a PC like keeping the registry free of entries that point to non-existant software.

Good Luck!

Answer 3

Hi. That is obviously too long. Depending on your processor speed and what starts up on boot, two minutes would be almost acceptable. I assume you went into msconfig under the 'Run' and stopped unnecessary programs from starting, but look at the Task Manager. How many processes are running? More that 35 or so? Go back and stop some more in msconfig.

Answer 4

Not enough info to go farther than to say exactly what is wrong but, you need to download and burn http://pclinuxos.com and then reboot from the CDrom.

If that boots normally like in about 2 to 3 minutes, (really boots lots faster, when installed to the hard drive!), then it means the hard drive and the OS on it, are flubbed up.

I would then diagnose the hard drive and OS. but, having defragged it, and it runs slowly, you might buy a new drive.

Best of luck!

Answer 5

many times a slow boot can be attributed to a mangled videocard driver ... maybe get drivercleaner if u have an nvidia or ati card, run that, and then reinstall the driver ... also u can run bootvis and it will show u where the hangup is occuring ...

Answer 6

update you cmos then remove any other anti-virus software that you have install right now and then go and download this free edition from www.grisoft.com it is a AVG anti-virus software you can only have on install on your computer at a time and see if there is a virus on your computer then run any spyware software run about 3 to 7 anti-spyware software on there and see if you have spyware on your computer if that don't work then Re-format your hard drive and reinstall all software that came with that computer what brand is your computer is it a dell hp Compaq IBM what it is.
need more information DUH! on your computer.

Answer 7

We're gonna need a bit more information about your computer.
(eg: Processor, Ram) Especially OS: Like Windows, OSX, linux

Answer 8

Your Hard Drive could be going out... I know alot of people who have had that problem.

Answer 9

u either have too much loaded in it. Or you have a virus.

Answer 10

wtf why do u assume someones a geek.... format reinstall dont worry about a backup f00