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anthony21690
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Hey everyone, been awhile since I've posted, at any rate, I recently built my first custom rig
/cheer
anyways I've been having a bit of a problem with it in the sense that it boots up just fine and what not.
The problem is when it hits the desktop finally it takes FOREVER to finally be usable, now, I've had it for less than half a month and I'm having these problems which is kind of disconcerting and I just wanted to know if any of you guys had any advice, I'd rather not wait 10-15 minutes for my new machine to be usable, any advice would be greatly appreciated thanks!
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you're gonna have to list what you've got before anyone might have some advice
I've got 2 sticks of Corsair Vengeance DDR3 4 gigs
A 1 TB Seagate SATA drive
Thermaltake TR2 700W
Gigabyte Z87-D3HP
GTX 650 TI SSC
and an I5 4k model.
The case I have came with 2 fans and it hasn't been overheating or anything of the sort because I've monitored it heavily on Speedfan.
Anything else you guys really need?
Oh yeah it's also running Win 7 Ult 64x.
That is usually a symptom of too many processes all trying to start up during start up.
All that stuff in the lower right hand corner of the task bar, for instance.
All those internet search tool bars.
All those drivers that have "utilities' that load at startup.
They all add up.
The best thing you can do now is to strip out all that startup nonsense.
http://www.howtogeek.com/74523/how-to-disable-startup-programs-in-windows/
That will help a good bit.
A more permanent solution would be to get an SSD drive (120G or bigger is more than enough), and move that to being your Windows/Boot drive, and keep your 1TB drive as your bulk data drive. SSDs are fast enough that even if you try to start everything all at the same time, it doesn't really matter.
Has it ALWAYS taken this long to start up? (like after you first built the computer, it took this long to boot the desktop?)
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Or is this a newer issue?
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If it is a newer issue, I would possible check for malware and such. Maybe get the CCleaner and use it. (but when it prompts you to "backup" your files before cleaning, I would do this and save it to your desktop in case something happens.
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Otherwise...Maybe quizzical will show up and offer his almighty insight. Or one of the other local computer gurus.
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Good luck man!
I am entitled to my opinions, misspellings, and grammatical errors.
Try the following:
Start up the computer and go directly into the BIOS without letting it boot
Let it sit there in the BIOS for 15 minutes
Restart the computer and let it boot normally
If that works you might have a problem with your motherboard and not your hard drive. I had a similar issue where my computer would not boot at a normal speed or respond normally when it was cold and it ended up being my motherboard.
type "msconfig" in the search field and hit enter.
Turn off everything in start-up that is not needed. If you have steam make sure that is unchecked.
If I had to guess it is something at startup. You may have an app that has a dependency and what it is dependent on is not starting up.
You could also have a profile issue. You could create a new profile and log into that profile and see what happens. If it is a profile issue the problem will reside in the registry for HKCU or the NTUSER.DAT file. NTUSER.DAT is not a readable file for you so if the problem is there you may have to remove the local profile. The best way to test though is with a new profile.
Edit: You do not have to delete the old profile, If you do though make sure you back up an data you need. Also make sure you have the correct permissions on the new profile that you build.
Unless the PC has always been slow right after boot my guess is that the problem is either the profile, windows, or something at startup.
--John Ruskin
Ok gents I found my problem
I had windows note from action center and I thought hell why not check it
It told me my computer's hard drive was having trouble being read and that that was a sign of hard drive failure, so I checked the hard drive and the wires were a bit loose, upon plugging them in more correctly everything works like a CHARM now, thank you all so much for your suggestions!
Awesome man!
You really lucked out finding it so easily, and having the issue be so insignificant! I wish my problems were so when I first built my computer...I will spare you my story but it took me 4 months to get it in fully operational working order :P
I am entitled to my opinions, misspellings, and grammatical errors.
That sounding like a pretty sweet rig.. knowingly you found your problem, however, I can not stress the benefits of having a Solid State Drive ( SSD) . I have two gaming rigs the old one, and the new one. Old one is a X2 250 w/ 4gigs ram, pny 560 ti, single 500gb 10krpm HDD, win 7 home premium ..new rig is fx8350, 8 gb ram, twin gtx760 sc acx, with a 128 gb SSD boot drive, and 1tb HHD storage(x2). on Win7 pro. I swiped the old pc, and with both systems not having anything on it except for windows or tested it... Old pc booted up it took aprox 3 minutes ( actual 3m 14 seconds) new pc took 8 seconds. Was timing from no power/turn on, til fully at desktop ready to compute.
I highly recommend you getting a SSD for nothing more than a boot device