Slow booting system

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tiewan

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Looking for some help with a new system I just built.
The system is severly slow loading up.

Here are the system specs/parts:
Intel E6600 cpu
Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3R motherboard bios version F9
2gig Crucial Ballistx ddr2 memory
EVGA 8600GTS video card
Western Digital WD2500AAKS SATA hard drive
Pioneer DVD/CD SATA drive DVR-212D
Windows XP


When I power the system on, the bios begins to loads up. It takes
1 minute for it to complete. I see the memory test and the drives initialize.
It gets to the end of initializing, I see the Veryfing DMI Pool Data message,
then the screen goes black like it is getting ready to boot into Windows.
This black screen remains for 3 minutes. Then the Windows Logo screen
pops up and begins to load Windows. This process only takes a few seconds
and then Windows is loaded. So, the total boot up time from the time I
turn the switch on to actually getting into Windows is almost 4 minutes.

Any ideas as to what could be the issue or what I may have done wrong during the build?
 
Slow to boot issues usually mean a failing hard drive. Try using speeddisk32 to confirm. In speeddisk32, if the CPU meter is 100% and the drawn graph looks like a haircomb, the harddisk is definately bad. Transfer speed should be around 50 or greater on a modern, working drive. Speeddisk32 is a free downloadable utility.
 
ill try testing the hard drive, although this is a brand new system. all the parts were just purchased, but i guess that dont mean it wasnt faulty from the factory.
 
Thank you for the picture. I see that there are many very long lines. To me this drive is not in the best shape and is starting to fail. I have seen many drives with this type of picture and they turned out to be bad. Do you happen to have an extra drive handy?
 
i have some old IDE drives laying around, no other SATAs though. Suppose i could try one of them.
 
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