very slow cold boot

medbot

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Hi, I have a problem where my computer boots very slowly, but only the first time through when I turn it on in the morning. My specs are: 3700 @ 2.8, 7900gt, 2gb corsair xms ram, asus a8n-sli mb, a couple optical drives, a maxtor 200gb ide hd, and my boot hd is a new raptor 74gb. It will take several minutes of the black Windows loading screen before it actually goes into Windows, and often times I will get impatient and reset the computer. When I reset it it boots just fine; the blue bar on the load screen only goes by maybe two or three times. Also, I just saw the article posted on the ocp homepage about increasing boot-up times and I did the prefetch thing, which seemed to work, but then when I booted up this morning it still stalled. Any ideas?
 
could be way off base here, but it may have something to do with your hdd.

Think there is an option in the BIOS that determines how long the system waits for drives to spin up. I'm guessing that when you reset, your drive has already got some rpm going, so isn't affected.

Might be worth a look.

Does it pass all tests? Maxtor should have a util to test with.
 
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