slow boot

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    Question Slow boot on NVMe m.2 SSD

    I've got an m.2 SSD with Windows 11 Pro installed with secure boot and fast boot enabled. BIOS boot times are around 1.5-2 minutes long and I've run chkdsk on all drives and disconnected all other SSDs and HDDs so be sure that no old files or partitions interfere with my m.2 disk booting. I...
  2. mikejlunt

    Question Slow to Boot

    I've searched around a bit and found a few mostly similar cases to mine, and when I've gone through the troubleshooting suggestions none of them have worked. My home built PC has been booting slower than normal for some time now. It's gone from booting in maybe 10 seconds to 2 or 3 minutes. The...
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    [SOLVED] Laptop is suddenly extremely slow to boot ?

    Laptop model: HP 17-cn0273st; Purchased Oct '23 Windows 11 23H2 512GB NVMe SSD 8GB RAM This system started out lightning fast to boot (seemed like 5-10 seconds), then got a little slower as MS Office and other apps were added, and seemed to settle at 30-45 seconds. I was OK with that. Then...
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    Question Extremely slow boot times-about 30 minutes

    Machine: Dell Optiplex 5050, core i7-7700, 64GB Ram, Windows 10 Everything updated. Tried safe boot (ok). Removed everything in the startup, the problem insists. Removed antivirus-> Problem insists The boot log given below. Any Ideas?
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    Question Gigabyte B450 Aorus M - Updating BIOS

    My B450 Aorus M is currently at BIOS Version F30. I would like to update it to the latest version, F64A. Reading thru the BIOS Downloads Page (https://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/B450-AORUS-M-rev-1x/support#support-dl-bios), several of the intervening versions carry statements indicating that...
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    Question Very slow and unstable pre-BIOS booting ?

    Hello! Yesteday I finished building my new PC. In general it works fine, but there is an issue with the booting. When I push POWER SW button, all the fans and the ARGB lights inside the PC get activated, rotating and flashing. For the next 25(+/-) second just nothing happens. The monitor's...
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    Question Weird slow boot times with new RAM (yellow dram led on for a while)

    Hello! I recently built my new PC with the new Ryzen 9 7950x, that requires DDR5 ram so I bought 2x32GB of it from Kingston, 5600mhz, C40 Latency, really good stuff. I also bought an AM5 Motherboard (ROG STRIX X670E-F), new PSU as well (1000w from Corsair) My PC also boots from an M.2 Drive and...
  8. bruh1

    [SOLVED] Dying Hard Disk?

    For the past few days, my computer has been extremely slow. It takes several minutes to boot, random freezing in file explorer and when opening files, videos freeze randomly during playback etc. Is this a sign of dying hard disk or is their some other component at fault? Asking because I...
  9. ifti12

    Question Pc takes too much time to boot and won't restart after adding Ram.

    Hello. My rig is Processor: AMD Ryzen 5 3600 Motherboard: Gigabyte B450m Ds3H GPU: GTX 1660. Memory Profile: XMP enabled. My main issue is with my new 2*8GB Rams. My previous ram sticks were of Corsair Vengeance LPX 3200 MHz 8GB rams. I had 2 sticks so my system had 16GB Rams. I wanted to...
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    Question PC has very long POST during startup ?

    I have noticed recently that dispite my BIOS time being set to 2 seconds. When the PC boots it will sit on the post screen for several seconds before moving on. I have my OS on a M.2 SSD. The LED's on my Mobo during startup quickly flash Red on CPU, then orange on DRAM, and then green on boot...
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    Question HDD activity strange?

    Let's make this quick. I start up my computer and on boot up it's far slower than usual, I notice the HDD light is mostly off and barely flickers. And because of this the whole computer is slow. But then after some time the HDD starts acting like normal, activity light goes on and off like...
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    [SOLVED] White underscore (not blinking) for 15+ seconds before boot and other possibly related issues.

    I recently built a new desktop PC about a week ago and after a Windows Update yesterday, I noticed that a solid white underscore showed up for 15+ seconds before the PC started booting. After trying a few different possible fixes like turning off CPU/GPU overclocking and undervolting and...
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    Question HDD’s not detected/multiple issues, please help 😭😭

    Hello, I am currently dealing with a few issues with my improved system, A little while ago I ran into some issues with my msi b350m motherboard (it initially said windows needed repairing then stopped posting), so i decided it was time for an upgrade, as the b350m had already given me so much...
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    Question Does a new PSU and Graphics Card slow down a computer?

    Hi, TL,DR; Installed a new psu and gpu now pc is slow and laggy. Any ideas? Detailed : I Bought a new PSU and graphics card two weeks ago and my computer is laggy and slow. Performance of games got a great boost due to GPU but all other processes are laggy and slow than before. PC boot...
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    [SOLVED] Samsung 860 Evo Data Migration Issue

    Hey All, Basically I noticed my boot time had started increasing as well as one of the drives starting to become tempermental so I decided to do a rehaul of my PC. I started off by getting a Samsung 860 EVO 500GB which I wanted to clone my Windows 10 OS onto as I had heard about the ultra fast...
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    Question Veeerrry slow boot after replacing almost every component

    Hi, Backstory: I had some issues with my GPU (I suppose Vram) so it kept constantly crashing. Kept using it (lack of funds) and only replaced it after like a month. And after a while and many many crashes and restarts, booting started to take forever. I'm running Win10, so when booting up the...
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    Question Slow startup

    Hi everyone. I've been reading tons of posts and guides to fix slow startup problems on Windows 10 and haven't been able to success. In the beginning my PC would boot in a few seconds. I remember being able to press both the screen and computer power buttons simultaneously and by the time the...
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    Question new, gaming PC very slow windows 10 load, restart

    Hello, guys... I have new gaming PC at beginning I had sometimes a little problem, which was solved by restart. Now... whenever I try to start PC, the windows 10 takes 3minutes to load,... when I try restart, it takes 5minutes sometimes it doesnt even load and the circle is still spinning...
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    [SOLVED] Desperate for help on extremely slow power up/reset.

    I’ve been trying as many solutions as I could for the last 5-6 months. I bought parts to assemble a PC and the motherboard sent to me was faulty. I exchanged it for a new one, but the computer takes up to 7-15minutes to boot and up to 5 minutes to reset with NvMe SSD/Ryzen 3700X. Boot time...
  20. aimi1995

    Question Newly built Ryzen 3000 PC takes 60+ seconds to POST from cold boot

    Hello everyone! I recently built my first ever PC after like saving for 1 year. It was an amazing experience. But I'm having a problem with it. Whenever I cold boot the PC, it takes 60+ seconds to POST and only then it gives the display output. The issue only comes when I cold boot it. When I...
  21. 4vil

    Question Extremely Slow Load at BIOS Screen

    Hey fellas, so i've just started having this issue a day ago, after i updated my BIOS. There were no errors or something pointing to this mess. I'm having around 50-70 seconds of load time at my MSI BIOS screen, which i never had before. I attempted to re-seat CMOS, also BIOS reset with jumpers...