Is it the motherboard??

[basildoulas]

Hi everyone, i have an old s775 gigabyte G31 motherboard...When i try to switch on the pc it takes ages to fully boot up.I have checked with the s.m.a.r.t tool and i posted the results of my drives.i wonder if it is the motherboard that is the problem because if it was the hdd with the OS the storage drive would be still fast but its not...Please give me your thoughts!!

 

[I Hunta x]

What part takes along time? getting through the bios bits or getting through the "windows is loading" bits or both??

 

[basildoulas]

What part takes along time? getting through the bios bits or getting through the "windows is loading" bits or both??

After the welcome windows thing it takes very long time to fully load programms and other stuff like afterburner, mozilla, chrome ect...And now that i think of, the front usbs works fine reading but when writing the speed is vary poor (~1-1.2 MB/s).Writes used to be 5-8 MB/s so it should be the mobo leaving me :sad:

 

[Pr3d4t0r]

full spec would help.

in bios disable all the useless crap like smart, force bios on boot/bios update(or whatever gigabyte wants to call it), epu etc.

smart isnt best bench you can run on a hdd btw.

things you can do without posting spec; defrag to 0%, assign more vram to windows, use some ram to cache the windows files, clean computer and fix registry(ccleaner will do that).

 

[I Hunta x]

http://crystalmark.info/software/CrystalDiskMark/index-e.html

give this a run, if it has reasonable speeds then it can rule out the drive just being horribly slow for some reason, what % of the drive is filled by the way?

 

[basildoulas]

full spec would help.

in bios disable all the useless crap like smart, force bios on boot/bios update(or whatever gigabyte wants to call it), epu etc.

smart isnt best bench you can run on a hdd btw.

things you can do without posting spec; defrag to 0%, assign more vram to windows, use some ram to cache the windows files, clean computer and fix registry(ccleaner will do that).

I've done all that and still need at least 20 minutes for the pc to be responcive to what I click.Specs and crystaldiskmark result are in screenshots.Disks C,D are one physical disk with two partitions

 

[SuB]

Are you loading all that stuff in automatically on boot? (the software you mentioned that was slow to start) or just when you click it after windows loads?

 

[Deejeta]

Mate go to:

run
type in msconfig
then go to startup
reduce what you can of the startup programs

Run ccleaner to clean your registry and everything else.

Defrag

Remove norton antivirus if you are using it. Usually the biggest culprit in slow load times.

Buy a ssd and migrate your os to it. You'll never look back. Even with an ageing 775 rig.

Best of luck buddy.

 

[I Hunta x]

the speeds dont look to bad so i doubt its the drive, was the OS installed on that system or was that hard drive taken from another system and just plugged in and ran as was? ive had some problems similar to this from using an OS from a different system that was fixed with a simple reinstall of windows.

 

[basildoulas]

Are you loading all that stuff in automatically on boot? (the software you mentioned that was slow to start) or just when you click it after windows loads?

Only afterburner runs at startup, all the others after i click them.

 

[basildoulas]

Mate go to:

run
type in msconfig
then go to startup
reduce what you can of the startup programs

Run ccleaner to clean your registry and everything else.

Defrag

Remove norton antivirus if you are using it. Usually the biggest culprit in slow load times.

Buy a ssd and migrate your os to it. You'll never look back. Even with an ageing 775 rig.

Best of luck buddy.

Already done those except from the ssd.Cause of poor pocket right know,I live in Greece and you all know about the financial crysis we live through, i want to know if the motherboard is the problem, change it and then buy the ssd which already is on my mind to do.

 

[rossi94]

I would highly recommend to reinstall you windows .. every cleaning won't make it that fast as a fresh one, that just got the latest drivers and needet programs.

 

[basildoulas]

the speeds dont look to bad so i doubt its the drive, was the OS installed on that system or was that hard drive taken from another system and just plugged in and ran as was? ive had some problems similar to this from using an OS from a different system that was fixed with a simple reinstall of windows.

The drive is the original came with the pc( its 4 years old)...The drive had vista and then when 7 came i install them with a clean install.Motherboard has been changed because the previous had died during thunderstorm (didn't have a ups back then)

 

[basildoulas]

I would highly recommend to reinstall you windows .. every cleaning won't make it that fast as a fresh one, that just got the latest drivers and needet programs.

If i am going to reinstall the windows that would be after i bought an ssd.