DuskDragon Posted February 7, 2012 Share Posted February 7, 2012 I think I found the cause of my problem and it was hardware, not software. When I turned on my computer today the HDD was unreadable. I'm just glad it failed early before I had any significant amount of data on it.Thanks for your quick responses. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SonofNun Posted February 7, 2012 Share Posted February 7, 2012 @DuskDragonYeah, bad hardware can be an unseen problem. Someone I know's computer took 8 minutes to start, and I couldn't figure out why since the specs were very impressive. Well, after he gave it to me to sell for him, I booted it up to test it and it took well under a minute. I was very surprised! The best I can figure is the reason for the long boot time was all the usb devices he had plugged into it. It would spend four minutes alone in the bios screen, I figue trying to make sense of all the usb devices he had plugged into it.Thanks,SonofNun Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SonofNun Posted February 7, 2012 Share Posted February 7, 2012 @DuskDragonYeah, bad hardware can be an unseen problem. Someone I know's computer took 8 minutes to start, and I couldn't figure out why since the specs were very impressive. Well, after he gave it to me to sell for him, I booted it up to test it and it took well under a minute. I was very surprised! The best I can figure is the reason for the long boot time was all the usb devices he had plugged into it. It would spend four minutes alone in the bios screen, I figue trying to make sense of all the usb devices he had plugged into it.Thanks,SonofNun Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MagicAndre1981 Posted February 7, 2012 Author Share Posted February 7, 2012 ok, nice to see that you found the cause. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SonofNun Posted February 7, 2012 Share Posted February 7, 2012 (edited) Hey, could you look at this boot trace. I am running off of a SSD and am not that impressed with how fast it boots.Boot traceThanks,SonofNun Edited February 7, 2012 by SonofNun Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MagicAndre1981 Posted February 7, 2012 Author Share Posted February 7, 2012 boot is ok. You can improve the performance by using AHCI, not IDE/ATAPI mode:IDE\DiskOCZ-NOCTIAlso look in the trace if MSE causes high CPU or Disk IO usage. Postboot is with 18s very long, so check if you really need all tool at startup. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SonofNun Posted February 10, 2012 Share Posted February 10, 2012 @Magic Andre,How would I do that? I checked the bios and the SATA is set to AHCI as opposed to Compatibility Mode.Thanks,SonofNun Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MagicAndre1981 Posted February 10, 2012 Author Share Posted February 10, 2012 hmm, this is strange. I have no idea why IDE is shown.check startup with autoruns to reduce the 18s delay. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MagicAndre1981 Posted February 14, 2012 Author Share Posted February 14, 2012 @WillMahlertry this update, maybe it includes the fix for your slow booting issue:http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2553141/en-us Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SonofNun Posted February 14, 2012 Share Posted February 14, 2012 Every time I turn on my laptop, it runs a trace in the background, which creates the .etl files that completely fill up the rest of my SSD space (3-4Gb). How can I get it to stop tracing every time I boot? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MagicAndre1981 Posted February 14, 2012 Author Share Posted February 14, 2012 run xbootmgr -remove. This removes the logging. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SonofNun Posted February 15, 2012 Share Posted February 15, 2012 @magicAndreThanks! That worked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zurzach7 Posted February 23, 2012 Share Posted February 23, 2012 (edited) Hi To start create a summary xml file, i type xperf /tti -i standby_BASE+CSWITCH+DRIVERS+POWER_1.etl -o summary_boot.xml -a bootmessage is:xperf : error: summary_boot.xml: failed to open output file (0x80070005)Tried even with elevated cmd. Did not helpAny idea how to generate the xml ? Or can anyone understand the content of my etl file to analyze this directly ? Edited February 23, 2012 by zurzach7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MagicAndre1981 Posted February 23, 2012 Author Share Posted February 23, 2012 do you have write permissions to C:\temp? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zurzach7 Posted February 24, 2012 Share Posted February 24, 2012 Yes, indeed. The etl file is also there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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