Dazza290 Posted April 13, 2007 Report Share Posted April 13, 2007 Hi all, My computer has got very very slow on start-up, once booted it's fine but it will probably take about 10 minutes before its fully functional (Not on really seeing as its not very old!). I've tried scanning for viruses through Norton, spybot etc etc and I have also used C Cleaner and changed the startup process on msconfig to cut down the amoutn of programs running on stratup but it doesnt seem to have made much difference. The hard drive really sounds like it is working hard when starting up for some reason, like I say, when its loaded it's A1, but its taking too long to get there! Any ideas to what I could do? Cheers in advance, Dazza Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dazza290 Posted April 13, 2007 Author Report Share Posted April 13, 2007 Have just read somewhere that it could be something to do with the 'registery' files, would that also make sense on why I keep getting the error message on startup? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wrighty496 Posted April 13, 2007 Report Share Posted April 13, 2007 Have just read somewhere that it could be something to do with the 'registery' files, would that also make sense on why I keep getting the error message on startup? i suppose if there's a missing file in the registry the pc'll be looking for it, hence the startup may appear slower but tbh i'm not a registry expert......someone call Dino Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pazza Posted April 13, 2007 Report Share Posted April 13, 2007 not sure if it makes any difference, but in the msconfig window, click on the boot ini tab and click check boot paths not sure but worth a try Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dino Posted April 13, 2007 Report Share Posted April 13, 2007 Hi Try hitting ctrl/alt/delete during startup and see if anything is using all the processor. Changing the registry can cause problems but a registry cleaner I have used in the past can be found here It makes a backup before it changes anything so "should" be reversable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dazza290 Posted April 13, 2007 Author Report Share Posted April 13, 2007 Cheers for the advice so far. Dino - Downloaded that program and went through it and it seems to have got rid of the error message on start-up ( ), but it's still taking its time, although I admit it is slightly quicker. I went into bios and the hard drive is shwoing up to be connected on Slave 2. It looks a little bit like this: Master 1 Slave 1 Master 2 Slave 2 - This is where it's saying the hard drive is connected to, is that right? Master 3 Slave 3 Could there be a problem in there andifso, can anyone give any pointers on to what it should be? Dazza Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rusty Posted April 16, 2007 Report Share Posted April 16, 2007 Hey mate what is your boot up order could be tryna boot up off unneccasary stuff like CD ROM and so on. instead of Hard drive Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allan268 Posted April 16, 2007 Report Share Posted April 16, 2007 SInce i ain't typing it all out again: http://forum.kev149.com/index.php?showtopic=23108 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dazza290 Posted April 19, 2007 Author Report Share Posted April 19, 2007 (edited) Thanks all, changed a few things about including some of Allan's suggestions and it seems a little quicker Dazza Edited April 19, 2007 by Dazza684 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Munster Posted April 19, 2007 Report Share Posted April 19, 2007 If it's your main C drive then it should be set as a master ? should only be set as a slave if your running a second drive. If it is your main drive and you have no other drives connected then you probably have jumpers in the rear of the hard drive that either need to be removed or setup to run as a master. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dazza290 Posted April 22, 2007 Author Report Share Posted April 22, 2007 If it's your main C drive then it should be set as a master ? should only be set as a slave if your running a second drive. If it is your main drive and you have no other drives connected then you probably have jumpers in the rear of the hard drive that either need to be removed or setup to run as a master. It's the original hard drive that came with the computer Muns, I havent changed the jumpers on it so im guessing that it's still ok, although it's still booting up like that I think I'll just leave it alone as it seems to be working ok Dazza Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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