Slow boot? Instability?

[oscar6]

Current specs below. My boot through the windows screen is MUCH longer (1-1.5 min) than that of my in-laws (20-30 sec) which I also built. Now I understand that I have more programs at start up, but that should have little effect until the windows screen loads. Does this have anything to do with the P35 double boot issue?

I am not doing any overclocking, however I get about 1-2 spontaneous reboots per week. Something in my system can't be correct. I just reinstalled windows as well with no change in stability or boot time.


Is there another full-featured quality mobo around $100-120 that boots quickly and is stable? I'd like to OC eventually. If this is strictly a P35 problem I am certainly not against trying a non-P35 board.



My PC: (Aug 07)
GIGABYTE GA-P35-DS3R
Core 2 Duo E4400
Seagate 7200.10 500GB
4x1GB Supertalent DDR2 800
Sapphire X1950XT
XP Home

In-laws PC: (June 07)
AM2 X2 3600+
Biostar Tforce 550
2GB DDr2
300GB hard drive
XP Home

 

[SerpentRoyal]

Zero fill the HDD and clean install windows. This will eliminate any software problem.

 

[donlightbody]

What is your power supply? The X1950 is very hungry and can cause instability with a low PSU.

 

[oscar6]

I'm not quite sure what zero filling the hard drive is. I did just reinstalled windows last week, same problems persist.

500 watt Ultra Power Supply, maybe that's the issue.

 

[SerpentRoyal]

Ultra X-Finity should work. That rig shouldn't draw more than 250 watts. Download the utility from the HDD mfr's website to zero fill the HDD, then reload windows. Reloading windows on top of an existing OS may be the root cause of your problem.

 

[oscar6]

I always do a full format before reinstallation of the OS. Does zero filling the HDD do something more than a full format?

 

[SerpentRoyal]

Format does not zero fill the data in the HDD.