Interesting issue!

[Mondo]

Hey guys.

Can I start by apologising if this has been brought up or discussed.

Over the past few days I've noticed something quite strange. My PC seems to be unresponsive until it has a network connection.

Some background would probably help at this point.

A few weeks ago, I decided to change from an AMD platform (FX8320, Crosshair V Formula) to Intel (4690k, Z-97 Pro gamer). There were many reasons for the change, but I'm happy with change over.

Anyway, all was absolutely fine, really responsive, quick boot etc. As mentioned, loading into windows 7 is fine, but I cannot launch any type of programme, including notepad, until I have a network connection. This wouldn't be an issue if this was within 10-20 secs of boot, but on average it seems to take 100+ secs.

This probably going to be the first question for diagnosing the issue, but I didn't do a clean install when I went from AMD to Intel. Reason being because I only changed the MB and CPU and the upgrade to win10 is less than a week away.

Anyway, this only started a couples ago, and I don't know if maybe a recent windows update has caused it.

Any ideas would help.

Cheers.

 

[shambles1980]

if you changed the MB and CPU then you must have done a sysprep??
if you did that would have sorted out the cpu and motherboard stuff for you so it should not be anything to do with not being a fresh install..

I would start off with installing the newest chipset drivers for the board personally (as a 1st course of action)

 

[Mondo]

Sysprep? I used the software disc that came with the board, even downloaded and updated to the latest bios for the MB.

 

[barnsley]

Sysprep? I used the software disc that came with the board, even downloaded and updated to the latest bios for the MB.

Follow this guide for sysprep. Of course you'd have issues if you had changed two bits that the OS talks to. its not as minor as swapping out a GPU

 

[Dark NighT]

I had this issue as well, the only way i could fix it was reinstalling windows, i also thought it had something to do with my old crappy ocz ssd that needed a bunch of intel sata drivers and software to keep it from crashing and locking the system up.

Since im on a new ssd, the issue hasnt returned at all, i could never explain what caused it exactly and prettymuch blame my old ssd and intel driver combo.

 

[Mondo]

So if anyone is interested, turns out the issue was with the NVIDIA streaming service. After searching online for further help, I finally came across an interesting microsoft knowledge article that helped my identify and resolve the issue. Who says MS can't be helpful?!?

 

[tolagarf]

I've been having a somewhat similar experience the last week.

When logging onto my PC after a restart, the logon screen can hang for up to 2 mins. Nothing happens then suddenly it logs in. Will try and disable that service see what happens...

 

[shambles1980]

your issue sounds like a hard disk with delay sectors (slowly dying)

 

[tolagarf]

your issue sounds like a hard disk with delay sectors (slowly dying)

Doubtful. It's a Samsung 840 and 850 Pro in RAID0. Not getting any hints of failures from SMART or otherwise.