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windows booting really slow


Well.. I've never paid much attention to it, till yesterday, where I rebuilt one of my old pc's for my aunt.

the pc I rebuild was a 1400+ AMD palomino, running at 1050MHz (due to the motherboard Having a 100MHz fsb, not 133MHz.)

the motherboard is a MSI K7T pro2, and it has 1.5Gb (3x 512Mb) SDRAM pc133 (running at 100mhz)



the funny thing is.. that pc starts up windows quite a lot faster than my current pc.



Q6600

4Gb pc6400 RAM

Asus P5N32-SLI Premium motherboard



the old pc is running windows Xp 32bit, this one is running windows xp pro x64. (tough, it was about the same speed on startup with 32bit's windows installed)

does anyone of you has any idea what might be causing this? because i'm fairly sure this cant be right.



my old 4800+ X2 pc with 2Gb ramstarted windows up faster than the old one, so why is this one slower?

    
Archangel

to get your pc starting quick you can defrag it clean up unwanted files look in msconfig for things delete cookies history temp internet files and do a virus scan disk cleanup.

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windowsvista

the windows installation on both pc's is new (2 days old now), so it cant be fragementated just yet. or at least, not THAT badly I think

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Archangel

i dont know maybe the specs on the old pc suit it maybe the good one cant handle some things that is weird thogh.

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windowsvista

Slow as in bootup or slow as in loading games/files?

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oscaryu1

yes i think he/she is meaning booting up the title says it all

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windowsvista

Hmm.... thank you windowsvista...

Some computers are just faster than each other. For example, I have a 1.3GHz P4 that's booting faster than my E4300 or my E2140. It's all a matter of hardware... HDD's faster than each other, lower CAS latencies, ect.

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oscaryu1

well.. both a AMD Palomino 1050MHz with 1,5Gb SDRAM pc100 (using a 5400rpm HDD)

and a 4800+ X2 (s939) with 1,5Gb pc3200 RAM and a 7200rpm HDD 16mb cache (exacly the one I'm using now)



both boot up faster (by quite a margin) than my current system Q6600, 4gb ram with a 7200rpm 16mb cache.



something cant be right I think

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Archangel

Maybe your old computer feels happy!!!

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windowsvista

Do you have more Processes starting on your more powerful comp? and are there any auto startup programs.

Have they both got the same anti virus programs, mine takes an age to sort itself out.

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