Suddenly Slow post and boot times

[Trikstari]

So, over the past two days, I have encountered some weirdness on my computer.

Starting yesterday and continuing today, my computer has been very slow to post, hangs at the bios entry screen, won't let me enter the BIOS, then goes to a black screen with a blinking white cursor in the upper left hand corner, sits, waits, and then finally loads windows 7. At the very beginning, before the bios entry screen, my monitors do not detect any kind of input, and I have to turn my main monitor off and then back on again before it detects anything.

I have run Check Disk,
I have re-seated my GPU,

Currently, my OS SSD is getting a little full. Only 7gb free out of 119. I am trying to figure out what has filled it up so much, I have TRIM enabled and only 1 game installed on it.

I haven't experience any problems once the computer has started, I am just concerned that I have a piece of hardware that is going bad or something. I'm not sure what else to check. Could really use some help here, I REALLY can not afford the time to reinstall my OS as I have school work to do, and need my computer for the next three days.

What could be causing this? Corrupted BIOS maybe?

 

[faalin]

Free up some space on your drive, you should keep about 20% free for best performance on a ssd

 

[Trikstari]

Free up some space on your drive, you should keep about 20% free for best performance on a ssd

But would that cause me to have longer POST and boot times? I wouldn't think so....

 

[ingtar33]

well, you can start by turning off hybernate mode, this will clean up some room

launch the command prompt, type 'powercfg /hibernate off'

do disk cleanup, and remove the MS update trash that's laying around on your system (right click on c: drive, go to properties, click disk cleanup, then 'clean up system files'

this will require a reboot to finish

then you'll want to check your system protection settings on your c: drive, go to control pannel -> system -> system protection -> sellect the c: drive -> hit the configure button, make sure the slider is set to 2% or so. if it's set larger a larger chunk of your hard drive will be chewed up by system restore points.

finally clear out your temp folders, you can do this yourself, or simply download ccleaner and run a sweep of your hard drive

do all of these things and you'll reclaim a chunk of your SSD's drive space.

 

[Trikstari]

well, you can start by turning off hybernate mode, this will clean up some room

launch the command prompt, type 'powercfg /hibernate off'

do disk cleanup, and remove the MS update trash that's laying around on your system (right click on c: drive, go to properties, click disk cleanup, then 'clean up system files'

this will require a reboot to finish

then you'll want to check your system protection settings on your c: drive, go to control pannel -> system -> system protection -> sellect the c: drive -> hit the configure button, make sure the slider is set to 2% or so. if it's set larger a larger chunk of your hard drive will be chewed up by system restore points.

finally clear out your temp folders, you can do this yourself, or simply download ccleaner and run a sweep of your hard drive

do all of these things and you'll reclaim a chunk of your SSD's drive space.

Already done most of those things. I Uninstalled SWTOR from the SSD, freeing up about 20 gigs of space. Tried a restart, same problems.

It appears as though my GPU isn't outputting any signal when I begin startup. I tried switching to the other DVI port, and same problem. I have to turn my monitor on and off a few times before it detects a signal. That or it is only detecting an output when I hear the single "beep" from POST. I'm gonna try clearing the CMOS and resetting my BIOS. See if that does anything.

 

[SimonEdwards]

None of those things will help , as they do not affect the POST of the bios

I'm having a similar problem where adding a brand new GPU into one of the PCI-E Slots results in over an hr wait for it to clear the post process