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Very long cold boot (10 minutes)
My machine seems to work just fine, but it does an odd thing that I don't understand: when booting after a power-down, the Windows 7 boot takes more than 10 minutes. I get the "Starting Windows" screen, and then there's 10 minutes of continuous disk activity, and then finally a login screen.
It does not do this on a reboot---a reboot, without a power-down, takes less than a minute.
I've tried updating my BIOS and my SATA drivers, and these changes do change the behavior somewhat: sometimes the 10 minute delay is before the apperance of the Windows flag, sometimes after. But the fundamental behavior is unchanged. I attach an ntbtlog.txt file from an instance were the delay occurs. The only difference in the boot log between the 10 minute boot and the 1 minute boot is the last line: the loading of "asyncmac.sys" occurs for the 10 minute boot but not the 1 minute boot. I know that this driver is sometimes infected, but my copy checks out fine according to both my antivirus and its MD5 signature.
So maybe this is normal, somehow? Does anyone know what my computer is doing during those 10 minutes of furious disk access?