Long Boot Times (7-8 minutes)

[jthende]

After a 8 minute boot to the Install Disk (with a formated hard drive) I now
get 7-8 minute boots after installation (before the sliding thingie goes
away). I have removed all cards from the PCI slots and turned off everything
in the BIOS I can disable with no improvement. I have a Dell Dimension 2350
with the latest BIOS, albiet 2003 vintage. Any thoughts on what can be
causing this?

 

[Mark L. Ferguson]

My guess would be disk corruption. I would boot to the Recovery options (F8
on restart) and use the Command Prompt to run the command :
CHKDSK /R

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[jthende]

I tried another install disk with the same 8 minute boot time to get to the
Install Menu. I scheduled a chkdsk on reboot from within Vista on the
C-Drive and still have the same 7-8 minute boot time. Thanks but still
looking for a solution.

 

[Ed.]

You say it's a 2003. Does it have enough RAM and powerful processor to run
Vista ?

 

[jthende]

It has a gig of RAM and a 2.4 gig processor (P4). Vista says both RAM and
Processor are adequate.

 

[hdboulanger]

I just got my brand new dell...... and it does the exact same thing.........
the initial boot every time i turn it on takes at least 5- 10 minutes,
restarts are quick and painless.

It's pretty ridiculous.

 

[John Barnes]

Those specs are BARELY okay. As mentioned you really need to increase to 2
gig. Read my other post in your other group.

 

[RalfG]

Have you checked in the BIOS for anything the computer might be doing before
it loads the OS? A RAM test for example, or searching for hardware that
isn't present or could be misconfigured? There might be a setting to enable
a boot diagnostic screen which could show what the computer is doing for
those 5-10 minutes on an initial or hard reboot that it doesn't do during a
soft reboot.

 

[John Barnes]

Or a restore partition that isn't there anymore

Have you checked in the BIOS for anything the computer might be doing
before it loads the OS? A RAM test for example, or searching for hardware
that isn't present or could be misconfigured? There might be a setting to
enable a boot diagnostic screen which could show what the computer is
doing for those 5-10 minutes on an initial or hard reboot that it doesn't
do during a soft reboot.