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Disgusting boot times and sluggish performance on my new PC, help please!

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axemanxt40

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The specs for my PC are listed in my sig below, everything in there is new except for the hard drives and 1 gig of the memory which was already there.

The 1st install of windows I did all the optimizations, turning off unnecessary services reducing what loads at boot, running bootvis and optimizing that. My machine at that moment was taking close to five minutes from right after it decides to boot from your hard drive to finished loading startup items. 3-4 of those minutes was spent at the Windows XP loading screen!

Now I just did a fresh complete 2nd install only things on my PC are Panda Antivirus, SP2 and all security updates, Daemon Tools, my hardware drivers, and bootvis.

With the 2nd install initially everything was fine but now its back to the same behavior as the previous install!

I haven't even played with windows services yet, the only questionable item installed on my PC is Daemon Tools, and I can't even run bootvis successfully on it?

Any ideas as to what the heck is going on here 🙁?
 
install drivers one by one. sounds like a driver maybe be hanging or maybe it is buggy.

so install windows yet again. however, reboot after you install something. driver, reboot, driver reboot, software reboot etc etc. until you find the problem.
 
I did a fresh install of Windows with a full format both times around.

Also I did install drivers and software one by one.

Any other ideas?
 
Try to uninstall the sata drivers from nvidia and just use the ones windows detects. I had a similar problem before and that did the trick.
 
nvidia firewall? uninstall it, or probably some bad programs thats on your hdd. i had that happen with a program like tweakxp pro or something like that, uninstall it. uninstall ALL programs that boot on startup. they aren't limited to those that u see on the taskbar? near the clock you'll have to check task manager and know the programs on your hdd
 
You should do a clean install and just boot up windows raw... pay attention to nvidia, only install the bare minimum like everyone suggests. don't leave disks in your optical drives. initializing your devices may just take that long.
 
Have you looked in Event Viewer to see if you are getting processes hung or fail to start? That might help you narrow down the problem.
 
Zero format the HDD and install WXP. Make sure the HDD is set as the MASTER drive. DO NOT connect other HDD to the PC at this time. Upon completion, reboot several times to check boot time. Suspect your problem is with a USB device, or video driver.
 
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