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Question

My boot up is really slow but after it's booted it's fine

Mar 27, 2018 12:51AM PDT

This is a really odd issue. I have reinstalled the OS, tried a new SSD hard drive, even replaced the RAM and Bios Battery. Still the boot up is really slow. Yet once it's up, the things run great.

I've also cleaned out the case from dust.

Any idea why the boot up would be so slow but the system would run fast after?

It's a AMD CPU with 8 gigs of RAM and 17 inch touch screen.

It does seem to get hot in the boot up process which makes me think the only thing left is the CPU fan or CPU paste dried up.

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Re: slow boot up
Mar 27, 2018 1:59AM PDT

- How slow is "really slow"?
- What's the difference (in seconds) between cold boot (after shutdown), warm boot (after restart) and boot after hibernate?
- Fast boot options set in Windows 10? Any difference if you clear it?
- What part of the boot is slow: (a) the BIOS part, (b) Windows till it shows the login screen, (c) From login to a working desktop?

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It takes about 4-5 minutes to boot
Mar 27, 2018 12:23PM PDT

Thanks for helping trying to decode the mystery.

Cold and Warm boots are the same. I would say about 4-5 minutes. The little spinney icon windows 10 shows when booting loads a new dot every 20 seconds or so. Sometimes it freezes for a minute. It crawls sometimes even slower. It has a SSD drives and before the issue it would load up with 30 seconds each time.

It's odd because I didn't change anything major or drop it. Just one day I went to boot it up and crashed, I did a restore and it booted but now it's super slow.

It doesn't crash anymore at lest which it would do every couple times.

I have fast boot set and it is about the same actually.

The slow part starts from the bios screen and continues through the windows boot.

Once the image loads in windows, everything works normal and it even cools down a little even.

I'm trying to think what is being used for the booting process that is not used once it's booted up that is not related to the HD or Ram.

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So this has a HDD?
Mar 27, 2018 12:38PM PDT

I see these slow as the drive fills and folk add more apps.

Let's check out what's running after a boot with a Web Speccy link. How will follow other areas.

Some folk have an antivirus that scans on boot. Yes, that's safer but you pay for that in time.
Another way to speed up boot is to not shut down but hibernate. Did you try hibernation instead?

Let's see a Web Speccy as it will have HDD info and what's running. Do this after you boot.
Read how at https://www.piriform.com/docs/speccy/using-speccy/publishing-a-speccy-profile-to-the-web

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PS. Forgot an area.
Mar 27, 2018 12:39PM PDT

If you reinstall the OS, there are many drivers to go get and install. I didn't read much about your install and post install routine.

Also, if USB drives are plugged in, these often slow the boot time. Unplug those and printers too.

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Thanks, I did try those
Mar 27, 2018 12:42PM PDT

I made sure everything was updated and the drivers where current and working and I tried with nothing plugged in and with things plugged in.

All have the same super slow boot up.

I tried it with a 500gb non SSD and a new 240gb ssd and as well both are the same which seems impossible.

Unless maybe both hard drives are bad. I could try a third one. Hmmm

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How did you make sure everything was updated?
Mar 28, 2018 8:11AM PDT

Many use Microsoft's driver update button. Unless you have a Microsoft Surface that's not good.

SSDs are usually great but I don't see the rest of the machine and what you did is unclear.

By the way, the slowest oldest laptop we had (it was stolen) was a 2006 Dell Inspiron e1505. With 1GB RAM and the 120GB cheapest SSD I could find it would boot to the Windows 10 desktop, open a web site in just 35 seconds from a cold boot.

Let's hear exactly what you did to update those drivers.