Computer Startup Suddenly Slow

kcorj2244 · Mar 17, 2014

So all the sudden one day, I shut off my computer, and when I restart it takes probably 25 seconds to get to the login screen. I then log in, and it takes a solid minute for it to open my first applications. This is what is does all the time now. I tried to system restore to before I thought it messed up and no luck.

Here are my specs
i5-3570k overclock at 4.4ghz
Nvidia gtx 680 sli
16gb ram
120GB SSD (windows is on this one), 500GB HDD x2\

I was used to 7-8 seconds to get to the login screen, and then 1-4 seconds for all my applications at startup to load. I have already checked my startup, and nothing has changed. I have ran malwarebytes thinking it was a virus, and it found nothing. Recently as well, I have been having FPS drop in games such as league of legends. I looked on the league of legends forums and it might be an issue with the client, but my WoW is also running worse than before.

I'm looking for some advice on how I can get my computer running 100%.

bigpinkdragon286 · Mar 17, 2014

Thermal throttling of the CPU perhaps? When was the last time you cleaned the CPU's heat sink and fan?

Malfunction of your overclock? Dial all overclocked components back to their respective stock settings and see if the situation improves.

kcorj2244 · Mar 17, 2014

Average temperature of the CPU is 40C. Even less when starting up. I checked my overclock and it seems to be fine aswell.

kcorj2244 · Mar 17, 2014

It seems to be an issue with maybe my ssd? Wouldn't only that really affect startup?

bigpinkdragon286 · Mar 17, 2014

Maybe. Is your SSD close to being completely filled?

Have you looked in the Startup tab of Task Manager (Windows 8.x) for programs affecting your startup?

Have you tried disabling all software that is starting along with Windows?

Have you gone through your services to see if anything else is loading that might be impacting your boot time?

Have you looked at your system logs to see if you are getting any errors reported?

kcorj2244 · Mar 17, 2014

Well my SSD has almost always been close to fill (~10-15GB free) and that hasn't affected it.

I checked the startup and it's this :
http://i.imgur.com/sjIoC3b.png

I tried disabling everything, and no luck. Takes awhile for chrome to even open when starting up. I looked at the task bar while starting up and the connection area (with the bars) was just showing a circle.... I think my system is just stalling for awhile while booting up.

My services seem to be fine.

System logs there weren't any errors.

kcorj2244 · Mar 17, 2014

I think this started happening after updating my graphics card drivers..

bigpinkdragon286 · Mar 17, 2014

Good grief you have a messy startup, but if you've tried disabling all of those extraneous startup tasks and it didn't help, then clearly it's something else.

You might consider downloading a utility such as Process Monitor and see if anything in particular seems to be showing up a lot in the list of process names. Perhaps you have 3rd party antivirus or antimalware that is taking up excessive time to perform some tasks?

Process Monitor:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896645

kcorj2244 · Mar 17, 2014

No I don't have any anti virus that is running. The only thing that shows up a lot is nvxdsync.exe which is related to nvidia.

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