Hi, I was wondering if there is anyway to see whats wrong with my PC. Its a dual core 4.2 athlon, and recently, its taking between 20 mins to 30 mins to boot up. It even takes ages to get past the bios screen, then it goes blank, then another 5 minute wait after the desktop theme picture is displayed. I am running win xp. I am not sure what other details to supply, but what I am pretty sure of it happened after I walked into the room, seeing my daughter repeatedly turning the pc on and off. I have no idea how long she had been doing that for. ANy help appreciated, cheers!
Hrm, it really takes so long to get to just the bios screen? *thinks* How are your cpu, chipset, GPU , and HDD temps? Have you done anything HDD intensive recently? Have you installed/switched/touched any hardware recently? How was your daughter turning it off and on repeatedly? Are your PSU, CPU, and GPU fan(s) coming on during boot?
Hi .. cheers for the replay. Temps are Fine on pc. Nothing intensive on HDD .. its barely got much installed on it, 300gb hdd. No hardware touched for a few months Daughter was pressing the on and off switch repeatedly All fans coming on fine. As I said, the PC takes ages to boot right from BIOS to the desktop icons being shown. But once its up, the speed is back to normal. I'm really stumped.
Disable useless programs in start-up. 1. Use Windows XP built-in MSCONFIG utility to find and disable automatically starting programs. Start -> Run -> write "msconfig" and disable all others than firewall, antivirus and ctfmon. 2. Second thing is that we search stuff what msconfig dosn't see. Autorun By unchecking the boxes, you can disable specific programs and prevent them from loading at start-up. Note: there are some entries that you should not disable: like userinit.exe and explorer.exe.
check that u have any cd or some thing in the computer when its booting. remove everything from it and check all cables
