Long boot up times and can't sleep

Operating Systems & Open Source Windows
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Hey guys,

I am having an issue with my fresh copy of Windows 8.

  1. Long boot up times. I mean hours long boot up time. I thought windows was never going to boot up, so I reinstalled it a couple of times. Only recently I discovered that I just have to wait. I thought it was never going to boot up because I was able to watch whole movies. The bios boot up is reasonable, and once I get to the login screen, it runs great. It's the splash screen that goes on forever. I just see a spinning icon go on. There is no frame dropping with the animation though.
  2. When I tried to go to sleep mode, it seems like it acts how sleep mode normally works, but it just shuts down once in sleep more. Sometimes I see the BSOD. I changed it to hibernation and get the same responce.

Computer Hardware:

 HP m7160n

  • Asus Limestone motherboard
  • 1GB of ram (soon to be upgraded)
  • Radeon HD 36xx series video card
  • Pentium D 2.8Ghz processor

Thanks guys for reading. This is my first post and hope to be a bigger part of the community.

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Try booting it in safemode and seeing if it boots faster. If it does then chances are you probably have a driver/hardware issue going on. If a fresh install of Windows did not fix the problem you can eliminate startup programs as the culprit. If booting in safemode isn't any better you may want to go ahead and get a new hard drive because that is most likely the problem. You can also run a test to see how fast your hard drive is reading/writing and compare that with the factory benchmarks.

 

Also is your system taking a long time to post or is it just in loading windows? If your post times are unusually long it may be your BIOS settings. Put them back to factory defaults if that's the case and see if it fixes the problems.

 

This could also be due to a virus or rootkit, run a deep scan using whatever lame virus scanner you might have with the most recent libraries.