Vista - Slow Start Up

[Wayne]

I've recently had a new graphics card fitted and now my PC loads really slow. It takes about 3-4 minutes for the desktop to show. Anyone suggest what I could do? I've tried disabling some services/start up programs. It's fine when the desktop appears but before that, it has the black loading screen for ages. :S Thanks.

[Meanies]

Do you have a disc in?
When I do it takes a hell of a lot longer to load up, but without it's fine :P

[Wayne]

No disc mate. :P Haha, yeah it does take longer with a disc. :(

[GommeInc]

It's probably one of these weird situations where after a few days it begins to work. Either that, or whatever you installed with the graphics card is trying to start-up at start up.

[Trigs]

Do you have a duo/quad processor? Most computers come with settings that only use 1 processor, wasting the other (one/three). You can split the load between the processors.

Is your IP static? Dynamic IPs take up a bit of your boot time.

If you have Norton, get rid of it.

How many fonts do you have? I learned from a computer course that all your installed fonts load during your boot time so if you have a lot of them, get rid of the ones you don't need.

[Turbocom]

You could upgrade to 7, make sure MSN isn't starting at startup, check anti-virus to make sure it's not scanning at startup.

Do a disk defrag and disk cleanup.

[Suspective]

Yh MSN slows the start up.

[Wayne]

It's probably one of these weird situations where after a few days it begins to work. Either that, or whatever you installed with the graphics card is trying to start-up at start up.

Yeah, I'll take a look thanks.


Do you have a duo/quad processor? Most computers come with settings that only use 1 processor, wasting the other (one/three). You can split the load between the processors.

Is your IP static? Dynamic IPs take up a bit of your boot time.

If you have Norton, get rid of it.

How many fonts do you have? I learned from a computer course that all your installed fonts load during your boot time so if you have a lot of them, get rid of the ones you don't need.

I'll try and split the processors. I don't have many fonts, just the ones that came with Vista and I don't have Norton. Thanks, I'll try the processors bit.


You could upgrade to 7, make sure MSN isn't starting at startup, check anti-virus to make sure it's not scanning at startup.

Do a disk defrag and disk cleanup.

Would upgrading to 7 remove all my stuff from my PC?


Yh MSN slows the start up.

Cool, I'll disable it. :)

[Stephen!]

Did you switch from an NVIDIA to ATI graphics card or vise versa?

[Wayne]

Did you switch from an NVIDIA to ATI graphics card or vise versa?

I bought Nvidia yes.

[Wootzeh]

run ccleaner

[Wayne]

run ccleaner

I use that a lot and that doesn't help boost the start up time.

[Turbocom]

Would upgrading to 7 remove all my stuff from my PC?

not if you choose upgrade.

[Wayne]

not if you choose upgrade.

So if I choose upgrade, all my files and programs will still be on the system, but the OS will just be Windows 7?

[Stephen!]

I bought Nvidia yes.

It's probably a driver conflict then. I always recommend to people when switching graphics card brands they should start on a fresh install of Windows to prevent complications.

[Wayne]

Damn, I cba to do a system format. :( Thanks Stephen.

[Turbocom]

So if I choose upgrade, all my files and programs will still be on the system, but the OS will just be Windows 7?
yes thats true.

[Wayne]

yes thats true.

Thank-you. :)

[Trigs]

NVIDIA is ****, always slows down boot time

[Wayne]

So even if I was to get Windows 7/format the PC, the start up would still be slow because of having a NVIDIA gfx card?

[Trigs]

sorry, didnt word it correctly. I meant that nvidia takes longer to boot up than ati. nvidia has a bunch of problems with almost all the gfx cards anyways so i don't see why you bothered switching

[Wayne]

I switched because my old gfx card was onboard and had a very low amount of MB.

[Trigs]

yeah, ati may not be the best in terms of performance but nvidia is a headache.

which gfx card did you get?

[Wayne]

Geforce 8400GS.

[Trigs]

well make sure you update your drivers regularly.

[Wayne]

Okay, cheers. :)

[Coheed&Cambria]

Geforce 8400GS.


Ive got the same GFX card. A few weeks ago i updated the drivers for it so it might be worth trying it yourself. http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us click Graphics Drivers, and it will scan your system and tell you the latest drivers you can download for your GFX card.

Hope i helped.

[Wayne]

Ive got the same GFX card. A few weeks ago i updated the drivers for it so it might be worth trying it yourself. http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us click Graphics Drivers, and it will scan your system and tell you the latest drivers you can download for your GFX card.

Hope i helped.

Oooh, very good thanks. :)

[Stephen!]

Guys, there is nothing wrong with his graphics drivers. I'm was just saying that there could be a clash between the old ones and new ones.

ATI nor NVIDIA boot up slower than eachother.

[Suspective]

I've got NVIDiA.

[DJDynamix]

Upgrading your PC for many reasons may require upgrading various other components. Check how big your ram is, if its any less than 1.5gb than i suggest adding 1gb extra. The only reason for the slow bootup would be that the graphics card will have to process more things in better quality and it needs a higher ram to do so.

[Recursion]

Upgrading your PC for many reasons may require upgrading various other components. Check how big your ram is, if its any less than 1.5gb than i suggest adding 1gb extra. The only reason for the slow bootup would be that the graphics card will have to process more things in better quality and it needs a higher ram to do so.

The graphics card has nothing to do with Vista booting up slowly.