Computer takes forever to boot

[robotluke123]

Hi, I recently got a gtx 780 for m build. I originally had a gtx 660ti. When I try to turn my computer on, it will show a black screen with an underscore in the top left. After about 20 mins, it will load windows. Anyone know why it takes so long or what I can do to fix it?

(Ps the card works amazingly once it's booted up)

[KieranThePCGuy]

I'm not sure, do you have your OS on a SSD or HDD?

[Ilumic]

Hi this might help , go into start menu and type "msconfig" then click on the boot tab, then untick "no GUI boot" if ticked , if not tick it , (if ticked it disables the windows logo when booting up , saving time) then go into advanced options and tick "number of processors" and set it to your max cores e.g an i7 would be 8 ( 4 cores, 4 threads) then tick the "maximum memory" and set it to your ram e.g 8GB = 8192MB, and tick ok , then reboot and see if that helps , if not your hard drive may be on its way out , if its taking that long to boot , if you have it on a hard drive and not on an ssd 

[robotluke123]

I have a wd blue hard drive that I got in November. I will try your suggestion Lewis

[Vertifai]

Maybe try to uninstall you graphics card driver in safe mode (hit F8 during boot) and then install them again.

[robotluke123]

Nope no worko ;(

[ProCoComputerRepairs]

Go in to bios and check your boot order, put your HDD first. Sometime when you have a CD in your optical drive(DVD drive) and its first in the Boot order, the bios will search for a OS to load, so make sure there's no CD/DVD in your Optical Drive. Also remove any external storage devices(External HDD, USB flash drives, or external DVD drive) from your computer during the boot process because the bios may also search those devices for an OS to load or it may delay the boot process.

 

I would say to reset your bios setting but the suggestion above should work.

[grayperview]

Sounds like a boot order problem, I'd remove anything other than the drive the OS is on from the boot order, in the BIOS

[Carter]

yeah, boot order could be the issue. it seems to be searching for something... noGUI boot will speed it up a little, but i dont think that will solve your problem (still try it though ) im assuming it posts before this, maybe reflashing your bios will help, see what others think though... sometimes peripherals can cause this, but i guess the only thing that has changed is your graphics card. do you have onboard graphics you could try, removing the gpu and see if that makes a difference?

[robotluke123]

I will try in the morning. I have x79 so no inboard graphics :( And I don't have an optical drive

[colonel_mortis]

in msconfig, on the boot tab, what is the timeout set to. If it's not 0, set it to 0. Also, if you press F8 while you have the _ on the screen, does it open the boot menu immediately, after 20 minutes (or whatever) or not at all?

[Gecko]

go to run type msconfig and go to startup and turn it off and restart the system!

[xBlizzDevious]

Ah, X79. It's a wonderful piece of hardware. I've just spent the last three days trying to get Windows to install and finally succeeded last night.

 

Suonds to me like you've got something plugged in to your computer. Unplug absolutely everything that isn't needed so have just a mouse, a keyboard, boot HDD/SSD and a monitor. Start up and see if it works. Also, check all BIOS options are correct and you're not running things you don't need to. Also, if you're using RAID, make sure that BIOS options for your setup are set to RAID and not IDE or AHCI.