Slowwwwwwwwww Boot

[davecabezo]

Hi,
Does anyone know of any software which will monitor a computer during the boot sequence to see what tasks it does during initial boot. My computer has recently decided to take 8 mins to boot, I have had all of the virus/spyware checked and all is OK so please confine your replies to my initial question. Regards, Dave

 

[techychick]

What is your OS?

In XP you can check the boot log located in C://Windows/ntbtlog.txt

How to Create a BootLog

Bootlog Analyser




How to Speed Up Windows Boot Time
http://www.pchell.com/support/how_to_speed_up_windows_boot_time.shtml
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1558,1786122,00.asp
http://www.pcguide.com/opt/opt/bootSpeed-c.html
http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=235571

 

[davecabezo]

Cheers M8,

Will give it a go tomorrow,

Regards,

Dave

 

[Arcadion]

Check that the Primary IDE channel is running in DMA mode, not PIO mode, you can find this setting in the Device Manager.