Storage Windows Boot time horrid on SSD

I have recently reinstalled Win7, but my boot times are horrid.

It hits the login screen nippy, but then it stays on the welcome screen after I log in for a good 20 seconds. The only things running at start up are the G15 and Xonar stuff.

It sounds like one of my mechanical drives is being heavily accessed during the "Welcome" phase and I have no idea why.

any help to diagnose this and hopefully solve it will be met with much joy.

 

You don't say what SSD your using?

 

Cruicial M225 60GB

 

unplug mechanical drive and see if it loads faster? then see what's missing?

 

I used to have a similar setup on my rig, I added my X-25M to a system with 2 traditional hard drives. But it would hang and slow at certain points waiting for the mechanical drives. It got a lot easier when I separated out the computers - into 1 raw gaming machine, with just my SSD and i7, and a media pc with my traditional hard drives.

 

All hard disks are accessed during load. You need f3 storage drives

 

well it never used to thrash the mechanical drives on boot up before the desktop loaded. was going to try unplugging the mech drives, but I've been busy.

as for the speed of the mech, they are a velociraptor and 2tb 7200 drives, it's not like it's some slow 5400 512gb drive churning away.

I'll unplug the drives tonight, see what goes down.

 

Don't suppose there's any point in checking what your boot drives are, etc in your bios.

 

i don't think so, i've got a WD Green drive in there for storage, and it is not access during boot, my windows boots up within 40 seconds where it is ready to use and as responsive as having it running for an hour.

im thinking you've installed something there and its running during startup

 

Yup
> Run > "msconfig" > startup - check the addresses of everything and disable anything slowing down your startup and maybe try defragging your mechanical hard drives

 

Update - I've unplugged all the mechanical drives, and it still takes 30 seconds to hit the desktop from login... and its bang on 30 seconds every time.

I've run the windows index thingie, and its still reporting 7.1 on the hard disk (as it was on the old install) so I don't think the HD is at fault.

I'll have another look through the startup list, but I'm pretty sure I've killed everything I could.

What with it being 30 seconds every time without fail, it's almost like the OS is WAITING 30 seconds.

 

sounds like a driver issue, eg. waiting for hardware but timed out.

a clean re-install is best, or remove any driver you can see in application wizard

 

Reinstalled OS entirely - and after windows updates BOOM 30 second wait.

Interesting fact: If I create a new log on account, it is not effected.

Scrap that, just booted back up, and it's doing it again.

I'm tearing my hair out here, is there any more I can do?

 

Sorry for the double post here, but I wanted to bump this.

*** ISSUE SOLVED ****

Windows 7 has a bug that if you set your background to a solid colour it causes the system to hang on the welcome screen for 30 seconds.

ALL THIS BECAUSE OF THE FREAKING BACKGROUND!

Hopefully no one else will fall into this black hole of pain now.

 

Glad your problem is solved! But really, why use a solid colour background?! You must have some nice holiday snaps or ANYTHING else you can put there.

 

why do you still use solid colour for? wallpapers are already so 95, do video desktop background

 

use a theme Cheesecake . glad u sorted it.

 

I was using solid colour while I was setting the computer back up and getting my files from the image of the old OS.

But yeah, glad it's sorted now.