New laptop boots up very slowly

[JorenBus]

Hello all,

 

I've had my laptop (HP Probook 430) for about a year now. It's not the best, I only use it for school.

However, it sometimes takes ages to boot my laptop up. Sometimes it takes about a minute to boot up, sometimes 5-7 minutes.

When this happens, I only see a black screen for 5 minutes, then continues booting up.

It's not doing updates when this happens.

There are very little programs installed on my laptop and there are no viruses on it since I rarely download something on this laptop.

The specs are:

i3 4010 1.70GHz

HP motherboard 1946

4GB DDR3 RAM

Windows 8.1

Since my gaming desktop at home boots up in less than 15 seconds, this is really annoying.

 

Thanks

 

[Jerakl]

It's probably the HDD. I'm guessing it's a 5400 RPM HDD. Assuming you have an SSD at your home PC, it would be quite the difference.

[meritmaster]

Hello all,

 

I've had my laptop (HP Probook 430) for about a year now. It's not the best, I only use it for school.

However, it sometimes takes ages to boot my laptop up. Sometimes it takes about a minute to boot up, sometimes 5-7 minutes.

When this happens, I only see a black screen for 5 minutes, then continues booting up.

It's not doing updates when this happens.

There are very little programs installed on my laptop and there are no viruses on it since I rarely download something on this laptop.

The specs are:

i3 4010 1.70GHz

HP motherboard 1946

4GB DDR3 RAM

Windows 8.1

Since my gaming desktop at home boots up in less than 15 seconds, this is really annoying.

 

Thanks

What kind of hard drive do you have in the laptop?

You can also try just performing some maintenance on the laptop, so clean & repair your registry, defrag you HDD if you have one, run Malware Bytes, and also virus scan; if

those do not work, then i would suggest reformatting it, and give the drivers a clean install, but if that doesn't help, i would start to think it might be a hardware issue, most

likely your storage solution. 

http://www.glarysoft.com/ (Normal maintenance stuff, and repairs your registry well, i would give it a try.)

http://www.auslogics.com/en/software/disk-defrag/ (Defrag) 

https://www.malwarebytes.org/lp/lp4/02_r/?gclid=Cj0KEQiA99qnBRDnrYCkt4ClzZABEiQAvqPaLHDloQtkWf6g1oCGj0-ZKnkfqbhW1y9ci1vuNaTa8HUaArTk8P8HAQ (Malware scanner) 

[d3sl91]

Hard drive. 

 

As systems age, the hard drive slows down. Any drive over 4 years old is candidate for replacement in my experience. Doesnt mean it needs to, but, in many cases after 4-5 years, you will notice performance increase with a new drive. 

[JorenBus]

Hard drive. 

 

As systems age, the hard drive slows down. Any drive over 4 years old is candidate for replacement in my experience. Doesnt mean it needs to, but, in many cases after 4-5 years, you will notice performance increase with a new drive. 

 

 

What kind of hard drive do you have in the laptop?

You can also try just performing some maintenance on the laptop, so clean & repair your registry, defrag you HDD if you have one, run Malware Bytes, and also virus scan; if

those do not work, then i would suggest reformatting it, and give the drivers a clean install, but if that doesn't help, i would start to think it might be a hardware issue, most

likely your storage solution. 

http://www.glarysoft.com/ (Normal maintenance stuff, and repairs your registry well, i would give it a try.)

http://www.auslogics.com/en/software/disk-defrag/ (Defrag) 

https://www.malwarebytes.org/lp/lp4/02_r/?gclid=Cj0KEQiA99qnBRDnrYCkt4ClzZABEiQAvqPaLHDloQtkWf6g1oCGj0-ZKnkfqbhW1y9ci1vuNaTa8HUaArTk8P8HAQ (Malware scanner) 

 

 

It's probably the HDD. I'm guessing it's a 5400 RPM HDD. Assuming you have an SSD at your home PC, it would be quite the difference.

Apparentely my HDD is: 298GB Seagate ST320LT012-9WS14C (SATA)

Also, this PC is 1 year old, so it's fairly new.

[Blebekblebek]

HDD & RST Software from intel doesn't really go well

I've had almost exact problem, even I upgrading to 8GB of RAM because of this, but it doesn't help that much.

 

if you remove the Intel RST it could go faster, but all drive will listed in safely and remove hardware

 

try to remove all junks in your drive

/temp

/tmp

/prefetch

 

just delete all files in these particular folder and try too boot up again.

if it's still doesn't help, going SSD is the last resort.

[JorenBus]

I just tried running those 3 programs, didn't really work, I have the feeling my laptop is even slower now.

[Jerakl]

Apparentely my HDD is: 298GB Seagate ST320LT012-9WS14C (SATA)

Also, this PC is 1 year old, so it's fairly new.

Doesn't matter how new it is. Standard laptop storage medium is a 2.5" 5400 RPM HDD.

[d3sl91]

Try running Seagate's Diagnostiocs on the drive, it could be failing. 

[JorenBus]

Try running Seagate's Diagnostiocs on the drive, it could be failing. 

It says it didn't find any faults.