I've been experiencing some puzzling issues.
My laptop is having some really big issues when booting Windows 8 Pro. Primarily the issue is with rebooting, which it cant do at all, it just hangs on the reboot screen for 15+ min seemingly without progressing. It also has issues while starting from having been turned off, which takes 2+ min to get to the login screen. Likewise shutting down usually takes a lot longer but can be accomplished.
The only exception to this is when i start the computer up after it has been shut down for a while or entirely drained of power. Then it boots up in less than 10sec (never timed it, but fast anyway) which is what i would expect.
On top of this i have been experiencing some issues with transferring files between my two drives, but this might be unrelated.
My win install is as good as new (couple of days old) and i had this issue before doing the reinstall.
I've turned the fast startup feature of win8 on and off several times, and it seems to have no influence on my boot times. Also my processsor power settings are running with 5% when idle and 100% when active.
An issue i have become aware of during my research on these problems, is that my win8 is installed on drive1 rather than drive0, and i'm prolly gonna try to fix this later, but afaict, that should not give me the issues i'm having.
Except for some DNS events, the primary events i'm seeing in the event logs are:
In all honesty i am not skilled enough to even know what other info might be required for me to be able to get help, but if anyone has any thoughts i'd be grateful.
My laptop is having some really big issues when booting Windows 8 Pro. Primarily the issue is with rebooting, which it cant do at all, it just hangs on the reboot screen for 15+ min seemingly without progressing. It also has issues while starting from having been turned off, which takes 2+ min to get to the login screen. Likewise shutting down usually takes a lot longer but can be accomplished.
The only exception to this is when i start the computer up after it has been shut down for a while or entirely drained of power. Then it boots up in less than 10sec (never timed it, but fast anyway) which is what i would expect.
On top of this i have been experiencing some issues with transferring files between my two drives, but this might be unrelated.
My win install is as good as new (couple of days old) and i had this issue before doing the reinstall.
I've turned the fast startup feature of win8 on and off several times, and it seems to have no influence on my boot times. Also my processsor power settings are running with 5% when idle and 100% when active.
An issue i have become aware of during my research on these problems, is that my win8 is installed on drive1 rather than drive0, and i'm prolly gonna try to fix this later, but afaict, that should not give me the issues i'm having.
Except for some DNS events, the primary events i'm seeing in the event logs are:
- Wininit: Custom dynamic link libraries are being loaded for every application.
- storahci: Reset to device, \Device\RaidPort0, was issued.
In all honesty i am not skilled enough to even know what other info might be required for me to be able to get help, but if anyone has any thoughts i'd be grateful.
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Windows 8 Pro x64
- Computer type
- Laptop
- System Manufacturer/Model
- Deviltech Devil 6700
- CPU
- i7 3720QM
- Motherboard
- MSI NB GT60 0NC
- Memory
- 16GB
- Graphics Card(s)
- GeForce GTX 675M
- Screen Resolution
- 1920x1080
- Hard Drives
- Samsung SSD 830 series
Toshiba MK6461GSYN