Windows slow boot up

Brian017

My Hp Touchsmart 610 running Windows 7 64-bit is so slow to boot up. It used to take 15 seconds to boot up now it takes over 5 minutes to boot.

It was running fine until last night. Now it freezes on the blue HP screen (won't let me press F8 or any of the other function keys displayed on screen) for a few minutes before continuing to boot up.

I wiped the machine clean last night with the HP Recovery Manager but that didn't help. Also tried disabling some of the startup items using msconfig.

Anyone know what might be the cause of the slow boot times?

pbarr

I'm not saying it'll fix your problem but it might help troubleshoot it.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb963902

bonzodog2

Try hibernating as a workaround.

yoyo

Could be a failing Hard Disk, classic signs of a failing one are boot up problems or slow boot times. Download Ultimate Boot cd, burn to a CD, boot off it and go to HDD->Diagnostics->Seatools for DOS and do an advanced scan

Nick

Overheal

definitely sounds like a failing component. perhaps the HDD or the Mobo.

daveyboy_1ie

Have you installed any new software lately? Could be a driver issue....

When exactly did the issue arise and had anything new been installed?

Overheal

he reformatted already ruling out software or drivers

Brian017

yoyo wrote: »

Could be a failing Hard Disk, classic signs of a failing one are boot up problems or slow boot times. Download Ultimate Boot cd, burn to a CD, boot off it and go to HDD->Diagnostics->Seatools for DOS and do an advanced scan

Nick

Did this and set it to do the test which took over 6 hours and it passed the test apparently. I guess there's nothing left to do only to contact HP and see what they say... Thanks for your imput

daveyboy_1ie wrote: »

Have you installed any new software lately? Could be a driver issue....

When exactly did the issue arise and had anything new been installed?

Only 3 weeks old; was fine until the night before last. Did a clean install of the machine that night. So its not a software/driver problem. It looks like a component inside the computer is on the way out unfortunately

fogy

yoyo wrote: »

Could be a failing Hard Disk, classic signs of a failing one are boot up problems or slow boot times. Download Ultimate Boot cd, burn to a CD, boot off it and go to HDD->Diagnostics->Seatools for DOS and do an advanced scan

Nick

Ok when i go to this link and press download it asks me do i want to run or save the file? which do i pick?

yoyo

fogy wrote: »

Ok when i go to this link and press download it asks me do i want to run or save the file? which do i pick?

Save the .iso!

Nick

fogy

Right now how do i burn it to a cd?

yoyo

fogy wrote: »

Right now how do i burn it to a cd?

Download ImgBurn and use it to burn the ISO to a blank CD-R

Nick

mach1982

Have you done a disk defrag

http://windows.about.com/od/maintainandfix/ss/SBSdefragWin7.htm