Super-long Boot?

[demigod]

Well, I decided today that I wanted to move some fans around and generally provide better airflow, because my temps have always bothered me. While I was at it I cleaned the dust out with the canned air stuff, and put it all back together. I turn on my computer after reassembly and I get a screen that says, "Windows didn't start because of some hardware changes or something blah blah blah". Perplexed, I just choose 'Start windows normally' and it immediately goes to a black screen and hangs for about 20 seconds. Then, the windows loading bar pops up, and that goes for its normal time, then I get another black screen for about a minute. Then it jumps to the desktop.

 

Overall, this problem has increased my boot time by at least 100%. The funny thing is, no other times are increased, say for loading game levels and such. I have no idea what is going on.

 

EDIT: Oh, and shutdown times are longer too... just hangs at the 'Windows is shutting down' screen.

Edited July 13, 2005 by demigod

[hiph0pan0nym0usx]

did you hook everything up exactly like it was before. did you put the hdd on the right chain?

 

i would look over everything again, and might even consider taking it apart and putting it together again.

[tharealmegaman]

Sounds like a problem with the ram posting. Check to see if they're secure.

[Ste]

this may help, make these changes in the registry.

 

Dramatically improve menu speeds and application and system shutdown/restart speeds

 

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop]

 

HungAppTimeout=4000 Delay before a hung application is allowed to terminate (each 1000 = 1 sec)

 

WaitToKillAppTimeout=4000 Delay before windows finally starts to shutdown (each 1000 = 1 sec)

 

MenuShowDelay=20 Delay before a menu pops open. (each 1000 = 1 sec)

 

AutoEndTasks=1 Automatically closes running applications when Windows shuts down.

 

 

may help other then that, defrag, disk clean up and msconfig.

[Gr4vitas]

well mayby...did you do any windows updates???? THEY STINK!!! i did it and now my boot time is like friggin quintopled lol

[Ste]

its not like you can not update for long periods of time, thatd just be dumb.

[LoArmistead]

my puter did that where it would take forever to boot, then forever to shut down (if I even got a chance to shut down, usually it would cut off by itself :angry2: ). So I was stumped, I mean stumped...

 

then I realize that at the time I was building/fixing 3 computers, and I got sidetracked and forgot to install the chipset drivers on my main rig in the mass pc confusion... Believe me, installing chipset drivers REALLY, REALLY....helps. eheh.