i have an a8nsli se motherboard with a X2 3800+ amd processor, 6600GT 512mb nvidia card, 1 250Gb seagate sata hdd, 1 80Gb samsung ide hdd, asus dvd rom, no floppy drive and windows xp sp2 installed, 400w psu. my normal bootin time takes about 90secs, which is pretty slow.. this comp is hardly 2mths old... i don't know what bios setting to keep so they are all default except hdd smart monitoring, cool n quiet are enabled instead of disabled and boot device priority is hdd, cdrom, rest disabled
is there any way i can speed up my bootin coz my friend has a config lower than mine but his comp boots up pretty fast, n its an amd setup
Check you BIOS setting for HDD. Does DMA are enabled ?
Check your Windows XP startup programs. How many programs are in the startup ? A more you have a more longer your windows will load.
Check your registry settings for automated services. Disable which you don't need.
Check your dual core patch for windows XP. There is an issue between AMD dual core and windows xp.
Do you have lots of fonts in your PC ? if yes you can start to delete some. More fonts you have, more longer windows load.
Try to clean the registry with specialized software. Installing and uninstalling softwares will make bloated registry.
i have an a8nsli se motherboard with a X2 3800+ amd processor, 6600GT 512mb nvidia card, 1 250Gb seagate sata hdd, 1 80Gb samsung ide hdd, asus dvd rom, no floppy drive and windows xp sp2 installed, 400w psu. my normal bootin time takes about 90secs, which is pretty slow.. this comp is hardly 2mths old... i don't know what bios setting to keep so they are all default except hdd smart monitoring, cool n quiet are enabled instead of disabled and boot device priority is hdd, cdrom, rest disabled
is there any way i can speed up my bootin coz my friend has a config lower than mine but his comp boots up pretty fast, n its an amd setup
ok ..here is your problem....one ide hdd and one sata hdd..this is the problem...
try to run your sistem on either ide or sata drive ...try to boot it without one of this drives......
for example if you use ide to boot ....disable sata drive from bios and viceversa...this is only an experiment to see which one of your drives will slow you down
slicesoul, DMA is enabled, there are only 2 programs at startup, my antivirus/firewall and probe 2, nothing else. i installed the dual core patch, lets see if that makes a diff....
fainis, how do i disable the ide drive coz i set it to none under basic settings since that was the only place i could disable it but after doing that, windows wouldn't log on
this is the time break up now how long it tkes for my comp to boot up
8secs monitor comes on
12 secs mb beeps
19secs winxp logo comes
60secs, winxp loads up completely
4got to mention sometimes taks 90secs for windpws to load completely
y does it take so long for it to even just start up b4 it even loads up windows?? compared to the intel comp that i had previously which was a config way lower than this but took bout 30-40secs to load, this should load much faster or at least about the same speed
Delet your c:\windows\prefetch directory. the first time the boot up will be slow. After that it will be quicker.
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Clean your prefetch to improve performance.
This is an unique technique for WinXP. We know that it is necessary to wash registry and TEMP files for Win9X/ME/2000 periodly. Prefetch is a new and very useful technique in Windows XP. However, after using XP some time, the prefetch folder can get full of rarely used or obsolete links which can slow down your computer noticeably. My suggestion is: open C(system drive)windows/prefetch, delete all files (or at least those more than 3 weeks old), reboot. I recommended that you do this every month.
Editor Note: Deleting prefetch files too often (Every reboot) can decrease system performance
Generally in BIOS there's a setting for Quick Boot. If you enable quick boot, BIOS won't perform 100% memory check, it just perform memory size. If Quick boot is disabled, BIOS will perform the check and more bigger your memory, more longer the boot time.
What kind of antivirus/firewall ?
How big is your memory ? i hope you are not using 128MB.
Where is the installation of your XP ? in IDE HDD or SATA HDD ?
i have 2GB ram 4got 2 mention tat n winxp is installed in the SATA hdd currently i'm usin bitdefender as my antivirus/firewall... do believe quickboot is enabled
Normally there's no problem between SATA and IDE HDD. But sometimes they can't work together. Just like Fainis said, since your XP is in SATA, try to disconnect the IDE HDD phisycally, not from BIOS, to see if there's some conflict in the driver or hardware.
Does the Nforce chipset driver is installed correctly ?
nForce driver?? hmm that is something new to me.... i shall go ahead and dl that... if that doesn't help then i'll try disabling the ide cable and see if that makes a diff
well i installed nForce amd sli 9.35 but that didn't make any diff... i then tried removing the ide cable and booting, 1st boot clocked 90secs, 2nd boot jus didn't boot at all, came upto the winxp logo and that was it. 3rd boot clocked 60secs... is it poss that my psu is not enough to handle my config??
I supposed you are not really friendly with PC components. I suggest you to get someone such as PC technician to help you before you make a fireworks in your house.
SATA HDD doesn't have any jumper to set as Master or Slave, but IDE drives has. You need to see the a$$ of your IDE HDD. The a$$ of the HDD is the connector where you plug the IDE cable and power cable. Between those connector, there's a small area where you can see some pins generally 8 pins, there's the place for the jumper to set the HDD as Master or Slave or even cable select.
Has this problem occured since you built or has it cropped up suddenly? If it use to load quicker, try running a spyware scan with the latest updates. Check task manager when Windows loads to see if the processor is at or near 100%. Also try a checkdisk and defrag.
True. It's not really good to run SATA and old school hd together. Tried it myself and it didn't work.
Normally there's no problem at all. Currently i have 40GB Seagate IDE HDD and 2 SATA HDDs, Seagate 320GB and Maxtor 120GB in my PC. They are working fine without any slow down on booting or gaming.
I already tried to put 3.2 GB IDE HDD and my PC just run fine.
windows/prefetch, delete all files (or at least those more than 3 weeks old), reboot. I recommended that you do this every month.
