Computer Problems on restart

gorall9

My gf just built her new computer yesterday, and everything runs fine after startup but everytime she restarts her computer it takes forever to load up, it stops at a loading bar black screen with microsoft corp underneath it and takes about 5-10mins to load.

She is using windows vista, and its a fairly fresh install only updated her drivers and installed some of windows updates and on reset it started doing the slow loading screen.

I'm thinking she could have installed something incorrectly maybe but if that was the case her computer shouldnt even run well once windows has started up, since after startup it runs perfectly fine so not exactly sure what the deal is.

Her specs:
phenom 2.4ghz quad core
8800gt 512
m3a mobo
4g of gskill ram
250g hd 7200rpm

Any help would be apreciated

Summary: comp takes 10min to load up at startup on a newly built computer not sure what the problem is.

bowen

gorall9 wrote: »

She is using windows vista
phenom 2.4ghz quad core
8800gt 512

She wouldn't happen to be using the 64 bit version of vista, would she?

gorall9

no its 32bit vista

gorall9

ok so some new information, we found someone else that had the same problem and they said to change the boot priority, so we put the hdd to boot first and then followed by cd-dvd rom drive.

Now it starts out loading fast but when it gets to the cd rom drive or the second thing to boot up it starts to go slow again

bowen

gorall9 wrote: »

ok so some new information, we found someone else that had the same problem and they said to change the boot priority, so we put the hdd to boot first and then followed by cd-dvd rom drive.

Now it starts out loading fast but when it gets to the cd rom drive or the second thing to boot up it starts to go slow again

It shouldn't be getting to the CD-ROM if you've set the priority to the HDD first.

gorall9

hmm, is there a way then to see what it gets caught on then cause it seems to boot slightly faster now because priority changed but once it loads its first part it slows down again

bowen

gorall9 wrote: »

hmm, is there a way then to see what it gets caught on then cause it seems to boot slightly faster now because priority changed but once it loads its first part it slows down again

I'm not sure, all of the computers I've had with the phenom and vista tended to be as slow as molasses on boot. However, this was a 64 bit vista so I'm not sure if it still applies. It may very well be related to the video driver, which also had problems with the 8800gt we had in the machine.

gorall9

I built nearly the same computer about a month or so ago only difference is the processor on mine is 2/3ghz instead of the 2.4 version and she has 1 more gig of ram then me, mine worked fine but i guess some of her hardware could be busted or maybe installed incorrectly

bowen

gorall9 wrote: »

I built nearly the same computer about a month or so ago only difference is the processor on mine is 2/3ghz instead of the 2.4 version and she has 1 more gig of ram then me, mine worked fine but i guess some of her hardware could be busted or maybe installed incorrectly

I remember there was an issue with some of the 2.4 Phenom chips (later replaced) that a lot of distributors still have in stock. It had something to do with faulty registers or something like that. You might want to look into it.