I built this machine many years as a main "server" for software development and backups for the family. Typically, I RDP into it to check mail, browse the web, misc. coding, etc. It has been very solid for years but last night it was functioning extremely slow so I performed a reboot which took several minutes. I noticed that numerous windows services were disabled and I made the mistake of changing the boot option to "Normal" which enables every service upon boot. I have tried every FKey to boot to safe mode but it doesn't seem to work. I noticed the BIOS takes MUCH longer (1-3 minutes) to identify the IDE drives before the Windows logo appears. It has been 30+ minutes and the Windows logo is displayed w/o a prompt. My questions:
1) I don't hear any HD noise to suggest failure
2) Why would the BIOS takes abnormally long to identify the IDE drives?
3) Aside from HD damage, hardware doesn't "slow" down so I assume it is software related
4) I am thinking of just buying a cheap SATA drive to re-load Win 7 (compare apples-to-apples) as I don't want to lose my main drive which has data that has not been backed up
5) Or, it appears that new PCs are dirt cheap these days such as: http://slickdeals.net/f/8027809-hp-...hard-drive-windows-7-99-fs?v=1&src=SiteSearch
Ideas?
Machine Specs Below
Windows 7 Ultimate N (x64) Service Pack 1 (build 7601)
COOLER MASTER Centurion 5 Mid Tower Case (CAC-T05-UW)
COOLER MASTER Exteme Power 650W PS (C283-1144)
GIGABYTE AM2 AMD 690V Micro ATX (GA-MA69VM-S2)
COOLER MASTER 92mm Hyper TX2 CPU Cooler (RR-CCH-L9U1-GP)
AMD Athlon X2 5600+ (2.80 gigahertz AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core)
CORSAIR XMS2 4GB DDR2800 (PC26400)
Seagate 400GB SATA/300 7200RPM 16MB Cache HD (ST3400620AS)
Western Digital Caviar Green 2TB 32MB Cache HD (WD20EADS)
GECUBE Radeon HD3850 256MB 256-bit (GC-HD3850PG3-D3R)
Pioneer SATA Blu-Ray DVD-ROM/12X DVD±R DVD Burner (BDC-202BK)
SONY DVD RW (DW-Q30A)
LG CD-RW (CED-8120B)
1) I don't hear any HD noise to suggest failure
2) Why would the BIOS takes abnormally long to identify the IDE drives?
3) Aside from HD damage, hardware doesn't "slow" down so I assume it is software related
4) I am thinking of just buying a cheap SATA drive to re-load Win 7 (compare apples-to-apples) as I don't want to lose my main drive which has data that has not been backed up
5) Or, it appears that new PCs are dirt cheap these days such as: http://slickdeals.net/f/8027809-hp-...hard-drive-windows-7-99-fs?v=1&src=SiteSearch
Ideas?
Machine Specs Below
Windows 7 Ultimate N (x64) Service Pack 1 (build 7601)
COOLER MASTER Centurion 5 Mid Tower Case (CAC-T05-UW)
COOLER MASTER Exteme Power 650W PS (C283-1144)
GIGABYTE AM2 AMD 690V Micro ATX (GA-MA69VM-S2)
COOLER MASTER 92mm Hyper TX2 CPU Cooler (RR-CCH-L9U1-GP)
AMD Athlon X2 5600+ (2.80 gigahertz AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core)
CORSAIR XMS2 4GB DDR2800 (PC26400)
Seagate 400GB SATA/300 7200RPM 16MB Cache HD (ST3400620AS)
Western Digital Caviar Green 2TB 32MB Cache HD (WD20EADS)
GECUBE Radeon HD3850 256MB 256-bit (GC-HD3850PG3-D3R)
Pioneer SATA Blu-Ray DVD-ROM/12X DVD±R DVD Burner (BDC-202BK)
SONY DVD RW (DW-Q30A)
LG CD-RW (CED-8120B)
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