franchiceddhu

Thanks for your quick replies guys. I already tried to uninstall my antivirus and didn't work. Also, I tried to boot up with only my SSD plugged in (both SATA and power plug pulled off for my other 2 HDDs) and the problem was still there.

Hi all. So, I have this weird problem: usually, my PC boot time used to be - from power to desktop - 5 to 10 seconds long at maximum, thanks to my Samsung EVO SSD. In the past 2 months, I experienced some occasional long boot time (at least 10 minutes, but everytime below 15), that become more and more frequently. I was running Win 10 Pro 1703, latest updates, with Bitdefender Free. I noticed, after switching to avast! Free Antivirus, that these long boots became the rule: now they show everytime I power on my PC. In detail, the sequence is this: I start the PC, MSI Logo don't show up (FastBoot enabled), than the computer stucks on Win10 logo, with the loading animation perfectly spinning all the time without any hiccups. I notice that my USB devices (mouse, keyboard, XONE controller) are without power during this time. After 10 minutes or more, I hear my hard disks spinning, the HDD LED on, and power returns on USB devices. PC goes to desktop in less than 5 seconds, and it's working as usual. Basically, a boot phase that used to last 1 or 2 seconds (USB devices powered off and then turned on), now lasts too long, but after that PC works perfectly fine. I already tried to power on my PC without any peripheral attached, but the problem showed up the same. TL;DR: extremely long Win10 logo boot screen, USB devices are powered off during this process that lasts at least 10 minutes, than they light up, HDDs start spinning and PC goes to desktop as usual. My rig below.

I'm new on this forum, even if I'm a looong time LTT subscriber, so hi to all So, I was checking my sister's old laptod, a 8 y.o. Packard Bell EasyNote TJ65 that comes with a Intel Pentium Dual Core T4300 inside. I'm running Win10 Anniversary Update. After stopping useless processes, I noticed, by using Task Manager, that CPU never goes over 57% maximum overall usage, so the PC remains horribly slow everytime. Clock speed is also fixed at 1,18 Ghz. I checked power management profiles, and I can confirm that there isn't any limit to maximum CPU usage (both at 100% for battery and external alimentation). The question is: what prevents CPU from "unleashing all its power"? Could it be a voltage-related issue? Or maybe it's because a faulty software? I never updated BIOS, but also never noticed this problem before (even after installing Win10). Sorry for my horrible English.