Vista SP1 Ultimate takes 2 minutes to boot

[fritzfield]

I am running a Foxconn P35A w/Intel e6600 2.4Ghz CPU @ 2.91Ghz, with an FSB of 322, using 8G of DDR2 RAM (Cheap A-Data) on stock ( Intel HSF, vdimm, etc.) OCCT and Prime 95 are wicked stable w/ temps at 56C. I had to reformat several times because of AHCI and having tried various 3rd party OS/disk speed-up utilities that screwed-up my system. I hate to reformat/re-install AGAIN, but I don't see how I can get around the two minute boot time that wasn't present on my last re-install/reformat. Any suggestions?

BTW, I've run Spybot S&D, A-squared, ad-aware, and auslogics defrag to no avail.

 

[NoStateofMind]

I'm guessing since you have 8GB RAM that you have the 64 bit OS?

Is your HDD in PIO mode in device manager and not SATA? If it is, right click the drive and uninstall, reboot. Vista's PnP should recognize the correct drive and automatically install.

Does it boot up faster to safe mode?

How about booting into safe mode and using SFC (system file checker)? Have you tried running the recovery console with "repair"?

Just a couple things to check.

 

[fritzfield]

I"ll look into that. Thanks for the reply/info.

 

[13Gigatons]

Is the hard drive light on or is it stopping waiting for some task to complete ?

My slow boot was waiting a minute for it to detect whether I had two monitors, which I don't so I disabled that feature.