Slow boot and other issues on modern hardware

[c00ki3m0nst3r]

I am running Windows 7 on a Z390 motherboard, an i9 9900K CPU and an M.2 Samsung SSD and I'm experiencing very slow boot times.



The system seems to perform very poorly before it has loaded into the OS itself, it sits on the Windows loading screen way longer than it should. Booting into safe mode also takes a really long time since the drivers load extremely slowly for some reason. Also, the Windows loading screen is displayed in the wrong language, it used to say "Windows is starting" in my language but now it's instead in English which is just weird since the OS is not installed in English in the first place.



I have tried installing Windows on a regular SATA SSD instead but the same thing happens. Am I installing Windows the wrong way? Or could it be BIOS settings that cause this? Any ideas?

 

[samuria]

Welcome to the forum. In the bios what is the disk set to ie legacey or other and what are sata ports set to sata 3 or 2 should be 3

 

[c00ki3m0nst3r]

Welcome to the forum. In the bios what is the disk set to ie legacey or other and what are sata ports set to sata 3 or 2 should be 3

Thanks. The BIOS is currently set to legacy+UEFI but I have tried setting it to UEFI as well and it didn't do anything. I'm not sure what you mean with sata 2 or 3, I couldn't find anything about it in BIOS. What makes the situation even more strange is that I currently dual boot Windows 7 and 10 and 10 manages to boot up just fine but 7 takes a ridicolous amount of time for some reason, and like I said I even tried installing it on 2 seperate drives. This whole thing doesn't make sense.

 

[samuria]

Given the specs it's likely 7 won't have drivers anything with yellow triangle in device manager

 

[c00ki3m0nst3r]

Given the specs it's likely 7 won't have drivers anything with yellow triangle in device manager

No yellow triangles, I managed to find workarounds for every single unknown driver. USB ports work perfectly and chipset, LAN drivers are all installed as well.

 

[NoN]

Thanks. The BIOS is currently set to legacy+UEFI but I have tried setting it to UEFI as well and it didn't do anything. I'm not sure what you mean with sata 2 or 3, I couldn't find anything about it in BIOS. What makes the situation even more strange is that I currently dual boot Windows 7 and 10 and 10 manages to boot up just fine but 7 takes a ridicolous amount of time for some reason, and like I said I even tried installing it on 2 seperate drives. This whole thing doesn't make sense.

Looks You're not in full UEFI but legacy mode.
Are the all others tabs set to "legacy mode first" in Bios? Modern hardware have it on Sata 3 so nothing to worry about.

PS: try also a Startup Repair - Run 3 Separate Times you might need the Windows 7 DVD to boot with (but Optional)

and see if it helps for your Log On screen (Option One): User Profile Service failed the logon. User profile cannot be loaded.

 

[c00ki3m0nst3r]

Looks You're not in full UEFI but legacy mode.
Are the all others tabs set to "legacy mode first" in Bios?




What do you mean by tabs? In the boot menu there is just an option to switch between UEFI and UEFI+Legacy, I tried both but neither worked.

 

[SIW2]

it used to say "Windows is starting" in my language but now it's instead in English

Try changing the bcd entry to your lingo.

bcdedit /set {current} locale (your locale)

eg. bcdedit /set {current} locale en-US

or
bcdedit /set {current} locale fr-FR

or whatever yours is.

You could also do

bcdboot %WinDir% /l en-US

or whatever yours is.

 

[NoN]

Looks You're not in full UEFI but legacy mode.
Are the all others tabs set to "legacy mode first" in Bios?




What do you mean by tabs? In the boot menu there is just an option to switch between UEFI and UEFI+Legacy, I tried both but neither worked.

In modern UEFI Bios there's not only One tab for Uefi, Uefi + Legacy, there's others tabs as how start peripherals at boot time. At the moment looks you have to stay Uefi + legacy.

 

[Megahertz07]

Please post a Disk Manger image as an attachment.
Open Disk Manger, expand the window and the columns so we can read them. With the Snipping tool, take a snapshot of the whole image, save to your disk.
Use the paper clip on the Quick Reply window. Browse to the image - upload

Where did you get the Win 7 installation iso with all the needed drivers to install on a M.2 MVMe drive?

 

[c00ki3m0nst3r]

Please post a Disk Manger image as an attachment.
Open Disk Manger, expand the window and the columns so we can read them. With the Snipping tool, take a snapshot of the whole image, save to your disk.
Use the paper clip on the Quick Reply window. Browse to the image - upload

Where did you get the Win 7 installation iso with all the needed drivers to install on a M.2 MVMe drive?

I just downloaded a clean iso straight from Microsoft and installed the required USB and NVMe drivers through the Windows 7 installer when it asked me to, the operating system then installed successfully with no problems.

 

[NoN]

Are you still experiencing slow boot time? You hasn't told if you just did a clean install right now

 

[c00ki3m0nst3r]

Are you still experiencing slow boot time? You hasn't told if you just did a clean install right now

Yes, normal boot and safe mode boot are both very slow. I have clean installed Windows 7 like 3 times on different hard drives and the same thing happens every time.

 

[Megahertz07]

Your Windows isn't installed on the fast MVMe drive, it is installed on drive 0. Why?
Is drive 0 a SSD?

 

[c00ki3m0nst3r]

Your Windows isn't installed on the fast MVMe drive, it is installed on drive 0. Why?
Is drive 0 a SSD?

Yes, drive 0 is an SSD, and I previously had the OS installed on both disk 3 and disk 1, the OS boots slowly on all of them.

 

[Megahertz07]

What is the time elapsed from POST to Win 7 desktop?

Please edit your profile with all your hardware specs. System Info - See Your System Specs

 

[c00ki3m0nst3r]

What is the time elapsed from POST to Win 7 desktop?

Please edit your profile with all your hardware specs. System Info - See Your System Specs

Okay, I edited the specs. And it takes like 30 seconds to boot the PC right now compared to about 8 seconds on my older PC with worse specs but the same OS.

 

[Megahertz07]

30 sec is average. I have a M.2 drive. It takes longer to boot than a 2.5 SSD. The answer is ALL other software to load, specially antivirus.
Open MSconfig and set to a clean boot (disable all non MS services and all startup programs)

 

[c00ki3m0nst3r]

30 sec is average. I have a M.2 drive. It takes longer to boot than a 2.5 SSD. The answer is ALL other software to load, specially antivirus.
Open MSconfig and set to a clean boot (disable all non MS services and all startup programs)

I know that it has nothing to do with any third party programs, because the PC started slow even when the OS was just installed with 0 programs. Also, booting into safe mode takes extremely long time since it loads about 1 driver a second instead of like 10 drivers a second like it usually does, I know something is wrong here. It can't be the M.2 drive either because I have Windows installed on literally 3 different brand new drives and it boots slowly on all of them. This is not normal, especially since this PC takes about 5 times longer to boot than my older PC that has way worse specs, it makes no sense. It has to be something with my motherboard or something, I don't know.

 

[Megahertz07]

Did you try a Clean boot?
Clean boot is not the same as safe mode.
Open MSconfig and disable all non MS services and all startup programs.


You can trace startup and shutdown.
Have a look at Why it takes so long to shut down?