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August 19, 2014 9:21:13 AM

First of all hi, I asked a question on this page already and got nice results, so here I am again searching for some help from the PROs. As the title says I have 2 problems. The first one is the keyboard. I bought a new keyboard today, its an Sharkoon Skiller, even though I only heard good things about it from forums, it doesn t seem to work that fine for me. I have problems while I play games, it doesn t do what I am trying to, when I hold shift my character runs as long as he wants and not as long as I hold shift, he sometimes stops earlier, sometimes starts walking alone, etc. If anybody here has this keyboard and he had the same problem, I would really appreciate it if you told me how to solve that. Moving on to the 2nd problem; my booting and PC speed. I don t have an godlike PC but its strong enough to do what its supposed to, but I have some problems with my speed and booting. I use a AMD CPU and GPU and an AsRock MB and it boots very slow and doesn t run very fast overall. My friend needs to wait 30 seconds from when he presses the boot button to start using it, and I need to wait 30 seconds till the password enter screen shows up, then 30 seconds until it shows the desktop, and then 3-4 minutes till my AMD Catalyst Control Center opens up and I can start using my PC. So if anybody knows how I could speed that up and how to speed up my PC up overall, I would again really appreciate it.

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August 19, 2014 9:31:09 AM

I have no experience with that keyboard. Is it mechanical? If it isn't and has dome switches there is a chance that they got squished or something and are registering more presses than you intend.

However, I have experienced slow boot times on my old AMD laptop. While part of it is due to the speed of your CPU(I'm just guessing its not too fast), the main factor of your slow boot time is likely the hard drive that you are using. Do you know the specs of it?

Regardless, reinstalling Windows onto a new Solid State Drive (120gb one, preferably, ~$50-100) will reduce your boot time incredibly. I have a Kingston SSDNow v300 120gb, which is a slower SSD overall, and my pc boots to usability in 10 seconds, top.

Buying a SSD is one remedy to slow boot times. You may have other problems though, but without specs its hard to guess.
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August 19, 2014 10:55:14 AM

So I checked the specs and it looks like I have a Western Digital Blue Caviar 500 GB hard drive. As it goes for everything else, here you go:
CPU - AMD FX Series X6 6300
GPU - MSI HD 7850 OC, 1 GB GDDR5
RAM - Kingston DDR3 8GB 1600MHz
PSU - Corsair CX Series, 600 Watt, ATX
MB - Asrock 960gc-gs fx
I know that AMD CPU-s aren t the strongest compared to Intel but I had to take because Intel is too expensive, or better said I didn t have enough money for it when I got this PC.
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August 19, 2014 1:50:42 PM

Right, and that is a fine cpu. 30 seconds to boot to windows is normal on a hard drive. 3-4 minutes until the computer starts responding after that is not the way your Pc should be running. A common cause of that is having a lot of crapware installed that is set to open on start up. Skype, spotify, and yes AMD Catalyst control center are common culprits.
To see what is set to open on start up, just open task manager and click the Start Up tab. There you can manage which applications open when you boot your PC. Try disabling those if you dont need them.
I suspect your problem is a combination of those sluggish programs, an aging cpu, and a hard drive. Once again, reinstalling windows onto a solid state drive will help tremendously, but the only way to get around those start up programs is to disable them, unless you want to buy a better CPU to execute them faster.
Hopefully this will help.
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