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30-07-2006, 06:45 AM
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| explodingdog  Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Clapham
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| Slow boot up? With my sn95g5 windows was booting in less than a minute, now after ive upgraded its taking closer to 3! I tried safemode, and that takes just as long, and it pauses on the 'loading mup.sys' file... so I had a quick google, and turns out that mup.sys isnt anything to do with it, its the drivers that load *after* it... so i did a boot log: Originally Posted by ntbtlog.log /
Is there anything obviously wrong? my system is detailed to the left... and before anyone asks, yes i did install the nvidia SW ide driver thing when it asked, but im pretty sure i did that on my shuttle aswell (nf4 vs nf3 tho?) Or shall i just learn to be more patient  |
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30-07-2006, 07:33 PM
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| Try http://www.majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=664 Microsoft BootVis, the boot speed increasing tool that doesn't increase your boot speed. Erm. Well anyway, MS released it yonks ago as a tool to speed up boot by putting stuff in a sensible place on the HDD, but I guess they didn't want to vouch for it so they pulled it... With my computer, it sped up time to login, but buggered up post login stuff in terms of speed - networking comes up slower for some reason, so use it at your peril! I'm assuming you did a reinstall after upgrading - if not I wonder if its loading old stuff - tried a registry clean out? Running any pointless services and/or startup items - try msconfig? Well Hello! |
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30-07-2006, 08:49 PM
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| explodingdog Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Clapham
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| its a clean install, reinstalled last night to see... did the same slow-bootup thing when i tried xp 64bit aswell  i'll give that bootvis a go, but im not expecting wonders |
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30-07-2006, 09:43 PM
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| Network|Geek  Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Aberdeenshire
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 | Perhaps a hard drive problem - google Powermax and use it to test your HD. It should tell you of any problems with your HD. "If you're not on the edge, you're taking up too much room!" - me, 2005 |
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01-08-2006, 10:10 PM
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| explodingdog Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Clapham
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| ran windows update, the only network adaptor not being used is the firewire one.. as for harddrive problems, everything was fine in the shuttle, and everything else runs/loads fine, its just windows that takes a long time... bootvis did nothing btw! |
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02-08-2006, 02:50 PM
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| Pedandic mo-fo  Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: South of the Watford Gap!
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| On your network card(s) how is the IP address assigned, if it's set to DHCP then this can take a lot of time but this would/should be a problem you'd see after the main logon panel loads. Also it's worth checking Event Viewer to see if there are any errors being logged during normal use. |
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02-08-2006, 03:04 PM
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| Jam Is Teh Win (again)!  Join Date: May 2005 Location: York
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| I know you say it's a clean install, but it's always worth checking msconfig in a situation like this... Originally Posted by aidanjt Please consider sponsoring me to run 10k for the Alzheimer's Society, it would mean a lot to me. 
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03-08-2006, 08:36 AM
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| explodingdog Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Clapham
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| considering this happened on my 64bit install, i think its something to do with the motherboard - are there any nforce4 issues or something like that? msconfig shows nothing dodgy, neither does event viewer |
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03-08-2006, 06:35 PM
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| HEXUS.timelord.  Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: On the Battle Field
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| that sounds like an IRQ slow down....where two IRQ#s are trying to share a resource unplug any PCI devices and reboot....also unplug USB headers.... take out spare HDD if you have one. Then, reboot and see if the speed improves. If it does, plug stuff back in, one at a time...you might get lucky and find that doing it that way forces the IRQ's into a different order. I've had that luck twice with sound cards and SCSI cards.   Agent = Hardware Homosapien | Zak33 = Hardware Homonid - just call me "Lucy" |
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03-08-2006, 06:37 PM
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| Originally Posted by streetster yes there are, but nothing major. A few Hard drives don't like nForce 4 boards, and also the hard drive control driver you use can make a small difference...but not enough for what you describe.
I think it's IRQ conflict. Thats AUdigy (in your system spec) is most likely so get that out...it wil go back in a different slot later. Agent = Hardware Homosapien | Zak33 = Hardware Homonid - just call me "Lucy" |
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