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[Santy]

Hello guys HERE is my rig hope it helps you somehow

 

Short version:

boot was fine taking around 13 seconds from bios screen to desktop then:

Windows loads and takes 5 minutes to show logon screen asking for user pw

started after installing nvidia graphics driver and realtek drivers

uninstalling these drivers didnt solve the problem

went nuclear and reinstalled windows which solved the problem just to find that it appeared again when i installed the same drivers again

and again uninstalling these drivers even with revo uninstaller and cleaning registry didnt solve it.

 

 

Long Version

The problem is when we go from the windows loading screen to the windows welcome screen the part where is asks for your user password.

The windows loading screen loads almost instantly takes like 5 seconds tops and then it goes black to make the transition to the welcome screen to log into your user, nothing wrong here except this blank period went from taking 1 second before installing drivers to take up to 5 minutes when I started installing the hardware drivers.

Im going to walk you through how it exactly happened:

I installed the latest Nvidia Graphic drivers 347.09 downloaded them from the nvidia website, then restarted the machine as suggested by the installer, when the pc turned back on the logon screen took 1 minute to appear after windows was obviously already done loading the screen was just blank for a minute, I didnt pay attention to this and logged into my user account to continue installing the remaining hardware drivers realtek audio was next, so i proceeded with this installation and restarted the pc again as suggested by the realtek audio driver installer, but this time windows loaded and then the screen went blank and stayed blank for 5 and a half minutes after which my logon screen appeared asking for my user password.

 

I found this disturbingly long so i proceeded to uninstall the realtek driver and download a newone from the asus website I restarted before reinstalling but it was still taking over 5 minutes AFTER windows finished loading but BEFORE the logon screen I reinstalled the realtek driver and restarted but the problem persisted, I uninstalled the Nvidia drivers because well I didnt know what else to do it looked like for some reason when windows finishes loading its sending the video feed elsewhere instead of my screen, and 5 minutes later it realises thats not the screen and turns it back on so I thought it had something to do with my Nvidia Drivers, that and besides it went from 1 second to 1 minute after the nvidia installation so i figured that was the root of the problem, after reinstalling the nvidia drivers I restarted and it went back to 1 second delay, so I went to bed happy. The next day I turned on my pc just to find out it was again taking 5 minutes before the logon screen.

 

I was incredibly frustrated so I went nuclear and reinstalled windows, completelly clean isntall, just to find out that it happened again exactly after isntalling the same drivers.

 

I didnt know how else to proceed so i came here to see if anyone could help me out

 

Any help is greatly appreciated.

 

Edit: Already Tried This, Didnt solve it.

[TheKDub]

(Please use automatic font color so we dark theme users can read what you said without having to select it!)

[BurgerBum]

(Please use automatic font color so we dark theme users can read what you said without having to select it!)

whats wrong with selecting it? i fint it easier to read the white agaisnt purple against white on grey. 

just asking.

[Arty]

Thier is no way it takes 5 minutes to boot off an ssd?

[Darkman]

whats wrong with selecting it? i fint it easier to read the white agaisnt purple against white on grey. 

just asking.

Some like me have the Dark/Night Theme enabled. It makes the background black and grey...

[BurgerBum]

Some like me have the Dark/Night Theme enabled. It makes the background black and grey...

*facedesking so hard*

some like me also have the dark theme enabled, and do so because they like a darker screen as they have sensative eyes, however still prefer reading text when selected because they have custom colours set for text and select collour.

 

 

[Darkman]

*facedesking so hard*

some like me also have the dark theme enabled, and do so because they like a darker screen as they have sensative eyes, however still prefer reading text when selected because they have custom colours set for text and select collour.

 

 

Derp... I personally hate it, it irritates me a lot.

[BurgerBum]

Derp... I personally hate it, it irritates me a lot.

i had a friend show me how to get the backround colour to a soft&deap purple. :3 its pretty. also my default font is made from my handwriting before le~ accident. (i did loads of drugs and broke both my elgs, alot of things ended for me, drummer, music in general, good handwriting) 

anyway... you could continue to yell at people to change it to something either default or something not yellow/white and not black/grey.

[Santy]

nobody? 

 

BTW the computer is extremelly fast once it reaches desktop and all tasks run smoothly and perfectly no crashes, nothing

 

Clean boot, that is disabling all programs and services in msconfig doesn't solve the problem. It does go from 5-6minutes of black screen to 3-4 minutes, but the problem is still there, it used to be 9-15 seconds from bios logo to desktop before drivers were installed

 

Booting in safe mode does fix it. But i cant log in safe mode every time >.<

 

Help T_T

[TheGeekster]

It's gotta be something with one of the drivers, try an older version of the nvidia driver perhaps?

[Santy]

Thanks

going to test with a couple of older versions and see how it goes, will update you how it goes.

[iDeJayDzn]

Could it be slight damage to the SSD? i had a HDD with a damaged write head and was taking like 5 minutes to boot. Replaced it and everything's fine now....

 

Replaced with an SSD that is. THANK THE LORD

[Santy]

I don't think its a hardware problem, since it gets fixed when i reinstall a clean windows, and then the problem starts again only after i install these drivers.

[Santy]

Using Older versions of the nvidia driver actually made it slower, so I kept trying different things, downloaded and reinstalled the Servicepack 1 for Windows 7, which fixed it completelly, then the windows update found some new updates, and I started downloading them to make sure the pc was completelly updated, after installing these updates the problem came back, so I used the restore point before the update and it was fixed again, started installing the updates 1 by one untill i narrowed it down to one that says Update for 64bit based windows 7 system, not sure what the exact translation is because my system is in spanish, anyway when i install this update the problem comes back, pretty weird

i guess i will avoid this update in the future. thanks to everyone that replayed, even if it was just to argue about my font you kept my topic in the front

[William12h]

Did you defrag the SSD? 

Is Fast Boot Still Enabled?

 

Try: Take out HDD and all USBs so only your SSD is plugged in and see if it boots faster.

[Santy]

Did you defrag the SSD? 

Is Fast Boot Still Enabled?

 

Try: Take out HDD and all USBs so only your SSD is plugged in and see if it boots faster.

Its currently fixed as long as I dont install the update I mentioned in my previous post it takes 13 seconds from bios logo screen to desktop.

 

Using Older versions of the nvidia driver actually made it slower, so I kept trying different things, downloaded and reinstalled the Servicepack 1 for Windows 7, which fixed it completelly, then the windows update found some new updates, and I started downloading them to make sure the pc was completelly updated, after installing these updates the problem came back, so I used the restore point before the update and it was fixed again, started installing the updates 1 by one untill i narrowed it down to one that says Update for 64bit based windows 7 system, not sure what the exact translation is because my system is in spanish, anyway when i install this update the problem comes back, pretty weird

i guess i will avoid this update in the future. thanks to everyone that replayed, even if it was just to argue about my font you kept my topic in the front

[William12h]

So you can get to the log in screen fast but it takes like 5 mins for? Desktop to load or fully load ?

[Santy]

yeah thats what the problem was, windows finished loading and then the screen went black like if it was receiving no signal at all, then exactly 5 minutes and 24 seconds later pop the desktop showed up in the screen i used a chronometer and everything, but as I said its currently fixed, the problem doesnt show anymore as long as I dont install that specific update everything is snappy now, don't worry =) thank you very much.

[William12h]

OK i kinda know why window does it but dont know why its not fixed it self..

Maybe cos u have a SSD. 

 

Windows normaly takes longer to boot when you install new stuff or large data was created and after a boot or 2 its dramatically reduced.

 

Try to do a Clean boot, So  Open MSConfig and select Diagnostic Startup and disable everything in Start up.

 

You can also Try this software called Soluto, It records Boot time and shows you what is increasing the Boot time etc. So it may say Nvidia Drivers : 18 sec etc 

Soluot also does other stuff and allows u to monitor your sytem.

 

 

 

yeah thats what the problem was, windows finished loading and then the screen went black like if it was receiving no signal at all, then exactly 5 minutes and 24 seconds later pop the desktop showed up in the screen i used a chronometer and everything, but as I said its currently fixed, the problem doesnt show anymore as long as I dont install that specific update everything is snappy now, don't worry =) thank you very much.

[Santy]

Awesome software gonna keep you updated thank you =)