Very slow boot, stalls at starting windows

Hi there, I recently upgraded my windows 7 from the release candidate to an oem version that was supplied with a new computer, I completely wiped the old win 7 os and installed on a clean partition, dual boot with xp, install was great, went fast and no errors, but now it takes up to 20 min to start windows. I nuke and paved again, with same results, tried disconnecting all usb devices and printer/scanner, disabled floppy support as i have no floppy drive, ran chkdsk on both drives and ensured no non-pnp devices are installed, as of now only installed programs are world of warcraft, belkin n52te setup editor,google chrome, windows manager and avira antivirus. please let me know what info you require and I will post back. thanks in advance for any help.

windows 7 6.1.7600
pentium d 3.00ghz
2gb ddr2 ram
nvidia 9800gt
200gb seagate sata
500gb westerndigital sata

lol i think a steam engine may be quicker! the drive was fully formatted with swiss knife before windows install, the delay is primarily at the starting windows screen, but I have also noticed a delay in bios load and leading into os selection menu, about 2 min from bios to startup screen including a couple blank screens with flashing cursor that i didn't have with win 7 rc. the delay at start screen ranges 5min to 20min, average is 10-12min.

update: just ran a boot log, for some reason was a very quick startup when i restarted, i see many drivers are not being loaded, unsure if this is normal, will attach log for inspection.

yukoncolin said:

Hi there, I recently upgraded my windows 7 from the release candidate to an oem version that was supplied with a new computer, I completely wiped the old win 7 os and installed on a clean partition, dual boot with xp, install was great, went fast and no errors, but now it takes up to 20 min to start windows. I nuke and paved again, with same results, tried disconnecting all usb devices and printer/scanner, disabled floppy support as i have no floppy drive, ran chkdsk on both drives and ensured no non-pnp devices are installed, as of now only installed programs are world of warcraft, belkin n52te setup editor,google chrome, windows manager and avira antivirus. please let me know what info you require and I will post back. thanks in advance for any help.

windows 7 (not sure where to find release #)
pentium d 3.00ghz
2gb ddr2 ram
nvidia 9800gt
200gb seagate sata
500gb westerndigital sata

Quite obviously there is a problem. Best to start with the easy steps and hope that we can correct the problem. In an adminstrator account type cmd in search. In the cmd box type sfc /scannow. This will correct any small corruption that may have occured in files or programs. Hopefully, this will work.

Still have a problem, lets go with step 2. Take your Win 7 DVD and install again, but this time do an upgrade install (its is now a repair install). If it does correct the first time try up to 3 times. If you did everything correctly when you first installed, this repair should work.

Possibly you still have a problem, you have a choice to make you can do what I would do or you could wait for others to come and help. Just so you know, our staff is very competent and they may be able to find traditional solution. I, however would just take the easy way and reinstall. Not really a problem, except that you have to reinstall all of your programs. But, maybe you can do that only as you need them.

I gave you the full benefit of my expertise and explained the alternative. Its up to you, but I can assure you, your computer will be up and running very soon.

But getting late and time to go, Christmas you know. I hope that your little compter problem does not hinder your ability to have the best holiday season ever, filled with happiness and love. Take care.

yukoncolin said:

thank you very much richc46 for taking the time to help me out, i'm trying the cmd scan atm, i'll be checking back in a bit, have yourself an excellent night and I'll re-post later or tomorrow and let everyone know what worked for me. cheers!

Thanks for keeping me posted. I will be going soon myself, its Christmas here in CT,too. Merry Christmas.

yukoncolin said:

tried the windows disk repair option a few times after sfc, didn't seem to help, just finished selective startup tests, found culprit to be avira antivirus, when disabled boot time drops to 1.5 min or less, guess it's time to find a better free av option. any suggestions?

Go to microsoft.com and download security essentials. Its great and free.

Good luck