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Slow boot on I9300

post #1 of 20
5/24/06 at 8:54pm
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The Inspiron 9300 in my signature is taking 3 minutes to boot (from when I first see a windows boot screen until it is fully up with everything running) into Windows XP Professional. Does anybody know of a way to figure out WHAT is causing the slow boot? One thing I did notice was that my nice high speed Hitachi 7200rpm 7K60 disk is only benchmarking at 39MB/second transfer speed according to Sisoft Sandra 2007. I have tried another disk (5400rpm) and that booted in 2 minutes 20 seconds.

My best guess is something software related but I don't see anything in the event logs.

Please Help
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post #2 of 20
5/25/06 at 12:05am
im having the exact same problem. ive posted this question many times without luck... hopefully this time we can find something out.
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post #3 of 20
5/25/06 at 1:26am
go to device manager and check your primary IDE chnl.


Make sure it is set to ULTRA DMA and NOT PIO!!! If it is set to PIO you will have to reinstall controller drivers
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post #4 of 20
5/25/06 at 3:27am
Mine was slow till I refomated and reinstalled windows.
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post #5 of 20
5/25/06 at 4:35am
have you turned off hdd acoustic management/power saving?
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post #6 of 20
5/25/06 at 6:10am
where is it?, i will check mine
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post #7 of 20
5/25/06 at 6:12am
try downloading microsoft bootvis, and tunexp has a function that lets you defrag and move to the centre of the disk all the boot files and stuff.. Mine's been getting slower and slower of late.. also try and curb the number of apps you have set to run on start up although i'm sure you've done this already..
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post #8 of 20
5/25/06 at 10:10am
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I just took a look and my primary IDE channel is set to Ultra DMA Mode 5. I have run bootvis but it didn't help speed things up. I then ran it to trace my boottime and the two longest are:

Process (PID) , TID , Driver Name , Duration (sec), Begin Time (sec), End Time (sec), Major Function , Minor Function, Filename
----------------------, -----, --------------, --------------, -----------------, ---------------, ------------------------------, --------------, ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
System (4) , 60 , snapman.sys , 14.52, 7.57, 22.09, DEVICE_CONTROL , 0 , \Device\Ide\IdeDeviceP0T0L0-3
svchost.exe (336) , 1396 , mrxsmb.sys , 14.00, 38.11, 52.12, DEVICE_CONTROL , 0 , \Device\LanmanDatagramReceiver

with a total of 1006 entries in the Driver Delay log.

Does anybody have the link to the Hitachi hdd control utility?

Edit:
I found the utility and it helped a little but it is still taking well over a minute to boot.
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post #9 of 20
5/25/06 at 12:35pm
is there any hdd control utility for the Seagate?
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post #10 of 20
5/25/06 at 7:20pm
does anyone have the link to the Hitachi hdd control utility? can this help the boot time go quicker?
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post #11 of 20
5/25/06 at 7:38pm
Do you have any long pauses without HDD activity during bootup? If you do, you may need to uninstall and reinstall your wireless network card drivers.
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post #12 of 20
5/25/06 at 7:44pm
A freeware called "Autoruns" will let you know just what is set to run at startup.
It's what msconfig.exe should be.
You may be running a system or hardware checking utility at startup that can be turned off.
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post #13 of 20
5/25/06 at 9:16pm
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There is constant disk activity at startup. I will try Autoruns out and see what that gets me.

The link to the hitachi tool (Feature Tool) is here.

Under BootExecute I found autocheck (Auto Check Utility). What is it?
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post #14 of 20
5/30/06 at 8:23pm
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anybody have any other ideas?
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post #15 of 20
5/30/06 at 8:44pm
You can try diagnose the problem using dells diagnostic software. I had practically the same loading times as you and when I ran it, it found a harddrive error. Now dell is replacing it with a new one. First turn off your computer, hold down the FN key and press the power button at the same time for a couple secs and that will get it started.
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post #16 of 20
5/30/06 at 11:18pm
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That is something new to try although I have tried 2 different harddisks in this laptop but maybe it is a related problem (controller or such).

Edit: No problems found using the preboot diagnostic test. I unfortunately don't have the diag/utility cd for the 9300 so I can't run the diagnostics on there.
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post #17 of 20
6/1/06 at 11:24pm
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bump
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post #18 of 20
6/21/06 at 1:13am
Probably too late, but I just ran into this issue with a 9300. I found this thread while searching for an answer. I did have long periods of no disk activity while trying to boot though. When the desktop finally appeared, it took a while for the icons to appear. 3 to 5 minutes to boot.

I tracked my problem down to the print spooler service. I was able to boot into safe mode, stop the print spooler service, delete the printers and start the service again. Back to normal bootup now. That was weird and took way to long to figure out.

I just stopped all start up progs and services. I activated them a few at a time until I narrowed it down to the print spooler.
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post #19 of 20
6/21/06 at 8:24am
it takes me about 3 minutes, i have a lot of process runing near 73, so i decided to hibernate always, very fast wake on.
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post #20 of 20
6/21/06 at 3:14pm
here is a guide by Jack O'Neill to get your laptop to boot faster
http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=5787
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