boot - Computer runs slow in the startup screen and booting of windows, programs fade in and fade out slowly

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2014-07
  • user1306192

    I think I have the exact same problem that is described here: PC running slow like molasses from BIOS to OS. Everything was working fine, and then suddenly, out of nowhere it took forever to boot my pc. The BIOS screen hangs for about 1 minute before proceeding, and the windows bootup lasts several minutes (I have an SSD harddisk, usually it takes seconds). Opening and minimizing windows also goes really slowly, but the performance otherwise seems fine in windows. Games have really low FPS all of the sudden, around 3 or 7 FPS. I used to get 60 FPS. I can play Dark Souls 2 at around 40 FPS, but with plenty of weird graphical artifacts and super slow movements. I tried to upgrade my graphic card driver, but it didn't work.

    It seems that accessing my BIOS could fix the problem, but I can't do this. First of all, my start up screen doesn't tell me how to access it, I can't remember if it did so before, but I've tried to frantically press every F key as well as esc and del during the bootup screen, but no dice. So therefore I was trying to flash my BIOS, but I can't for the life of me find the right driver, I've been searching the internet for any information at all on this for about 3 hours.

    I have a AMI 4.6.4 Bios with a Clevo P150HMx motherboard.

    I can't identify the correct bios upgrade on the AMI webpage and Clevo, it seems, does not provide BIOS upgrades, even though it supposedly should.

    If anyone could provide some insight into this problem, it would be greatly appreciated.

    Important edit: As Wijagels pointed out, this might have to do with a failing USB-device, and as a matter of fact there is a very important piece of information that I forgot to mention. First of all, I'm on a laptop, so I can't easily disconnect the USB-ports physically or any other hardward, but the day before this problem started, I received constant messages of an USB-device not working properly (I don't know which), and the sound that windows makes when an USB-device is plugged in and out was playing constantly. Now I seem to be in a permanent state of an unknown device on Port_#0005.Hub_#0004 with error code 43, that doesn't go away, even if I unplug all USB-devices.

    Does anybody have a suggestion in light of this?

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  • user334063

    Actually accessing BIOS to get updated can not truly fix this issue. PC running slow means it takes a long time to loading system. It's suggested you perform Disk cleanup and Defragmentation. Or, you can choose an easy but rude solution: reinstalling your PC. Note that this is a process of hardware self-checking. Upgrade your BIOS can't help a lot. Hope that helps you!


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  • snitzr

    I just upgraded my HDD to an SSD drive. I am running a completely fresh install and enjoy the short boot time. I tweaked the startup to be as fast as I could by removing unneeded apps and such. Nor am I running a solid desktop background (which causes a 30-sec startup delay).

    I have a 2.1ghz 64 bit laptop with 4 gigs of ram, so it's not a liquid-cooled speed monster, but I checked some super high end PC boot vids on YouTube and noticed that they startup in almost the same time as my machine.

    I also noticed that the glowing Windows 7 animation plays all the way no matter how fast the PC is. I turned off the animation, and the startup time is unchanged. I turned on verbose startup info and noticed that it runs until the very end, where it looks like it just sits there for no reason waiting for something to happen for a few seconds.

    So now I think that the Windows 7 startup animation has a timer built into it that forces the computer to wait for no other reason than to play the full animation. Super-fast XP boot vids on YouTube seem to start much faster (and not just because they "have less to load").

    Am I imagining things?

    My question is: How can I turn off not just the animation, but the timer for the animation.

    Here is a vid that tipped me off, I have no relation to the poster. (warning: soundtrack might be loud) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5LkX3xejJ4


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  • Snark

    This article on the Engineering Windows 7 blog discusses the boot animation design: Engineering the Windows 7 Boot Animation

    They say:

    The sum of the boot code optimizations and removal of the pearl animation from Vista enabled us to add a rich, high-quality animation during boot, with no increase in the time it takes a user to reach the desktop.

    With all the efforts they've made improving the boot performance and minimizing the impact of the boot animation, I'd be really surprised they added something as stupid as a timer to wait for the end of the animation.

  • Orunitia

    I actually found that the boot animation appears at the same time, but depending on how long windows thinks the startup will take, the animation speed will change accordingly for a higher frame rate and speed.

    But I could be wrong.

    I've never understood about these kind of features in operating systems and there is a possibility that there is no way that Windows can estimate the boot time at that point.

  • aaa

    i think on faster computers the animation will run faster, cancelling out the timer effect. on my gaming rig for example, the animation spins significanly faster, whereas my netbook sloooooowly moves the animation.

  • Indrek

    Once the four bits of the Windows logo have joined together, the windows logo keeps glowing until your computer's done loading the OS, after which the animation just cuts off. There's no timer.

    By the way, the netbook loads slowly because it's probably struggling with the animation (thus causing low FPS).