NVME literally 10min to boot ???

[bigjoncoop]

Over at my boss's place trying to help his son with his computer and he's having a weird issue where his PC show Windows loading for literally 10 minutes. He said it started happening A while ago. 

 

I'm a PC enthusiast but I'm kind of baffled on what would cause this. 

 

The boot drive is a NVME drive, UEFI, Windows 11

[Mark Kaine]

11 minutes ago, bigjoncoop said:

I'm a PC enthusiast but I'm kind of baffled on what would cause this. 

Umm. Faulty hard drive (no, Crystaldisk ain't a reliable way to test, you need hd sentinel or smthn) ram shenanigans... Turn off the training on each boot thing off, etc...turn off XMP, check with malwarebytes for malware, etc, there's a gazillion reasons but that's the stuff what I would start with.

 

 

[strange13930]

15 minutes ago, bigjoncoop said:

Over at my boss's place trying to help his son with his computer and he's having a weird issue where his PC show Windows loading for literally 10 minutes. He said it started happening A while ago. 

 

I'm a PC enthusiast but I'm kind of baffled on what would cause this. 

 

The boot drive is a NVME drive, UEFI, Windows 11

Is there a hdd in the system? If there is one there’s a chance that it has bootable windows on it and that’s what it’s booting from instead of the nvme.

[Thomas53]

Instead of paying for anything , download a copy of Linux and perform a live boot.

If it still takes 10 minutes its a hardware problem and if it boots within a minute, it's a software problem.

[strange13930]

9 minutes ago, Thomas53 said:

Instead of paying for anything , download a copy of Linux and perform a live boot.

If it still takes 10 minutes its a hardware problem and if it boots within a minute, it's a software problem.

He could create a windows installation media instead but both will work. Good idea @Thomas53

[Thomas53]

Not being a Windows user since somewhere around 3.1 or so, I never think to use Windows to check for a Windows problem.

 

I recommended the use of Linux because, it's possible that if the problem is in the base OS, and he doesn't have a separate installation disk already, copying what is already present from the drive may simply copy the problem.

 

Of course, I may be 100% wrong in my thinking.

Edited April 18 by Thomas53
Added final comment.

[strange13930]

7 minutes ago, Thomas53 said:

Not being a Windows user since somewhere around 3.1 or so, I never think to use Windows to check for a Windows problem.

 

I recommended the use of Linux because, it's possible that if the problem is in the base OS, and he doesn't have a separate installation disk already, copying what is already present from the drive may simply copy the problem.

 

Of course, I may be 100% wrong in my thinking.

Yes if you create a installation media from pc with something wrong with windows it can copy over, 100% right. I feel like it should be a practice to have a usb drive with windows or Linux on it for every pc owner.