A little while ago I took my computer out to the garage to blow out all the dust. Then I unhooked most of the wires and cables inside and re-routed them. (they were a tangled mess) Now when windows XP takes about 10 minutes to boot. Once it finally finishes everything seems to work fine. What did I do??
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What did I do?! Computer extremely slow to boot...
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During the time nothing was happening, the hard drive could have gone back or a few sectors went bad.
Usually when I see a computer with rediculous boot times, I format the hard drive and it works fine after that.
If it still boots slow after loading windows and a few programs onto a fresh format, you may want to try to RMA the drive since there might be something wrong (if it's still under warranty).
Usually when I see a computer with rediculous boot times, I format the hard drive and it works fine after that.
If it still boots slow after loading windows and a few programs onto a fresh format, you may want to try to RMA the drive since there might be something wrong (if it's still under warranty).
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Yeah, I'm thinking the same thing. Or, did you happen to to hit any jumpers on the mobo? Perhaps the RAM isn't seated properly? I would just double check everything under the hood. If that doesn't prevail, then reformat.