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Very slow Vista startup

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Hello,

I just upgraded my PC and reinstalled the complete system. After reinstall Vista starts very slow. It takes 5 minutes to start a fresh installed system. After installing all the latest drivers it is still 5 minutes.
In the event log I can say that the startup process has a critical flag and it reports also ~300.000 ms for startup.

Before the upgrade there was no problem. I only upgraded from 2x500GB (very noisy) Seagate HDD to 2x640 Samsung HDD and 4x1GB RAM to 4x2GB RAM.

The system now looks like:
Gigabyte P35 DS3R mobo, Intel Q6600 CPU, 2x640GB HDD in Raid 0, 4x2GB DDR2-800 RAM and a Gigabyte Geforce 8500 VGA card.

OS is Vista Home Premium with SP1 64 bit.

Any idea what can be the problem?

Thanks in advance!
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PCTaylor
Overclocked any? I experienced some weirdness with clocks when I first installed Vista. My FSB wasn't even close to a "typical" ratio to my memory speed, so it caused some slow speeds.
Would also try taking out two memory chips for troubleshooting purposes, see what happens then.
PM me if you have any questions, I'll do what I can to help you remotely!
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M
There is no overclocking.
I will try your proposals and report back with the results.
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M
I have removed 2 memory modules and now Vista boots in 25 sec! That's what I want.

But what is the problem with the memory? Is it wrong? Vista makes something wrong? Until now there were 4x1GB so does Vista 64 have problem with 8GB RAM? I have an other machine where the memory was also upgraded from 4x1 to 4x2GB and there was no problem. However in that case Vista was not reinstalled.
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Nautilus
I suggest you to update your BIOS. Maybe there is something to do with it. Gigabyte users are lucky when it comes to updating bios. Just install @BIOS software (you can find it in your CD which bundled with mobo) and download the latest BIOS from Gigabyte's page.
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bebster
Download MEMTEST (google it) and run it on each ram stick. That means you take out all four and run it on one at a time. It is likely one of your sticks is damaged.
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bebster
Quote:


Originally Posted by Nautilus
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I suggest you to update your BIOS. Maybe there is something to do with it. Gigabyte users are lucky when it comes to updating bios. Just install @BIOS software (you can find it in your CD which bundled with mobo) and download the latest BIOS from Gigabyte's page.

Try this first, might save you an hour of memtesting.
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It seems that the BIOS update solved the problem. (Gigabyte didn't mentioned any memory relevant changes in the BIOS descriptions)

Thanks for your help!
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Munchkinpuncher
Awesome glad to hear its fixed.
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Nautilus
BIOS update solved most of my problems before.I'm glad to hear you can use 4gigs of ram again.
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PCTaylor
Glad I could help you troubleshoot that problem. It's always those pesky BIOS updates!

Have fun...
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razr7
have u checked the startup programs
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Anth0789
If you dont want programs to run on startup check this out:
http://netsquirrel.com/msconfig/msconfig_vista.html

How to speed Vista Boot time:
http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/70563-boot-up.html
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