For a good while now my system has been booting really slowly. Last time I counted it took 4-5 minutes just to get the desktop, and even then it takes a minute or two, to get to a state where every application doesn't take a full minute to load. I entered MSConfig and turned off anything I didn't need under Start and Services, which quite frankly didn't really help all that much. Still takes 4-5 minutes getting to the desktop, now I just don't have a sea of applications starting as well.
Can this have something to do with running a single 8 GB RAM stick? I had two, but one of them malfunctioned a month ago or so, and I still haven't been able to buy a new one as I'm buying new monitors. Could defragmenting my harddrive do any good? Here are my system specs
OS: Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
RAM: Corsair Vengeance 16 GB (Currently 8 as explained above) PC3-12800 1600MHz DDR3
GPU: Nvidia Geforce GTX 680
CPU: Intel Quad-Core i5-3570K @ 3.40GHz
HDD: 1TB Samsung HD103SJ F3 SATA-2 @ 7200 RPM, 8.9ms average seek time and 32MB cache.
did you leave in one of the ram sticks? cuz that would be bad
[QUOTE=Naaz;40682299]did you leave in one of the ram sticks? cuz that would be bad[/QUOTE]
I left in the one that works, is that a horrible thing to do?
[QUOTE=Doom;40683119]I left in the one that works, is that a horrible thing to do?[/QUOTE]
Not at all, because the system at least boots.
Sounds like a high hard faults per second rate, go to task manager, click the Performance tab, and open resource monitor, and check memory and post the graph of Hard Faults/sec
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/jRxAjrW.png[/IMG]
So that happened when I launched Photoshop. Before I launched nothing appeared, I got like one hard fault every 30 seconds.
It spikes quite hard, but it isn't spiking so bad that it would slow everything down.
Sorry for these obvious suggestions you may have tried:
1. Updating BIOS
2. Looking for software or 'alignment' software for your specific hard drive.
Good luck :)
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