Solved Windows 8 takes 4-5 mins to boot even after clean install.

raywashere889

New Member
Messages
6
Windows 8 64bit was taking forever to boot so I did a clean install but that didn't help. I am using an ASUS K56CA laptop. I have tried updating all the drivers I could find and windows too but it didn't help. When trying to put the computer to sleep I did get a DRIVER POWER STATE FAILURE message but I don't know if that's related to the extremely long boot times. I also disabled everything non essential from starting using MSCONFIG. I am out of options. Please help. Thank you.
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 8
Hi,
You can enable fast boot up if you want it will decrease the boot time, and make sure you always shut the PC down correctly.
_Click on your battery icon>>>>then click more power options>>>>then click choose what the power button does then click change settings that are currently unavailable then scroll down and check fast boot, put in mind that it doesnt work when clicking restart PC.
P.S: when i enable fast boot it takes 15 second to boot up to the desktop, but when i uncheck it it takes 35 second to boot up.
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 10
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    HP
    CPU
    Intel Core i7
    Graphics Card(s)
    Nvidia Geforce GTX 680
    Sound Card
    idfk
    Screen Resolution
    15' 1080p display
    Internet Speed
    70Mbps
    Browser
    Google Chrome Canary
    Antivirus
    AVAST Premiere 2015
Thank you for your reply but after trying to resume from fast boot I get a BSOD and it says DRIVER_POWER_STATE_FAILURE. Normal boot time for a machine like this should be around 45secs or so. I am wondering if there is a particular process which hangs on startup causing the 4 min delay. I tried to find the particular bootup process taking this long using a boot analyzer but I only see that "system" takes most of the time. Any ideas how to track down the culprit?
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 8
Here is what it says in the event viewer for my latest boot up:


Code:
Log Name:      Microsoft-Windows-Diagnostics-Performance/Operational
Source:        Microsoft-Windows-Diagnostics-Performance
Date:          7/10/2014 10:31:50 AM
Event ID:      100
Task Category: Boot Performance Monitoring
Level:         Critical
Keywords:      Event Log
User:          LOCAL SERVICE
Computer:      MannanPC
Description:
Windows has started up: 
     Boot Duration        :    240600ms
     IsDegradation        :    false
     Incident Time (UTC)    :    ‎2014‎-‎07‎-‎10T17:26:37.852401700Z
Event Xml:
<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
  <System>
    <Provider Name="Microsoft-Windows-Diagnostics-Performance" Guid="{CFC18EC0-96B1-4EBA-961B-622CAEE05B0A}" />
    <EventID>100</EventID>
    <Version>2</Version>
    <Level>1</Level>
    <Task>4002</Task>
    <Opcode>34</Opcode>
    <Keywords>0x8000000000010000</Keywords>
    <TimeCreated SystemTime="2014-07-10T17:31:50.555833800Z" />
    <EventRecordID>194</EventRecordID>
    <Correlation ActivityID="{1ADF1571-9C64-0002-D515-DF1A649CCF01}" />
    <Execution ProcessID="1592" ThreadID="1400" />
    <Channel>Microsoft-Windows-Diagnostics-Performance/Operational</Channel>
    <Computer>MannanPC</Computer>
    <Security UserID="S-1-5-19" />
  </System>
  <EventData>
    <Data Name="BootTsVersion">2</Data>
    <Data Name="BootStartTime">2014-07-10T17:26:37.852401700Z</Data>
    <Data Name="BootEndTime">2014-07-10T17:31:34.305036000Z</Data>
    <Data Name="SystemBootInstance">55</Data>
    <Data Name="UserBootInstance">45</Data>
    <Data Name="BootTime">240600</Data>
    <Data Name="MainPathBootTime">177300</Data>
    <Data Name="BootKernelInitTime">18</Data>
    <Data Name="BootDriverInitTime">1241</Data>
    <Data Name="BootDevicesInitTime">123172</Data>
    <Data Name="BootPrefetchInitTime">0</Data>
    <Data Name="BootPrefetchBytes">0</Data>
    <Data Name="BootAutoChkTime">0</Data>
    <Data Name="BootSmssInitTime">10239</Data>
    <Data Name="BootCriticalServicesInitTime">7453</Data>
    <Data Name="BootUserProfileProcessingTime">1656</Data>
    <Data Name="BootMachineProfileProcessingTime">4772</Data>
    <Data Name="BootExplorerInitTime">18813</Data>
    <Data Name="BootNumStartupApps">6</Data>
    <Data Name="BootPostBootTime">63300</Data>
    <Data Name="BootIsRebootAfterInstall">false</Data>
    <Data Name="BootRootCauseStepImprovementBits">0</Data>
    <Data Name="BootRootCauseGradualImprovementBits">0</Data>
    <Data Name="BootRootCauseStepDegradationBits">1024</Data>
    <Data Name="BootRootCauseGradualDegradationBits">1024</Data>
    <Data Name="BootIsDegradation">false</Data>
    <Data Name="BootIsStepDegradation">false</Data>
    <Data Name="BootIsGradualDegradation">false</Data>
    <Data Name="BootImprovementDelta">0</Data>
    <Data Name="BootDegradationDelta">0</Data>
    <Data Name="BootIsRootCauseIdentified">true</Data>
    <Data Name="OSLoaderDuration">2101</Data>
    <Data Name="BootPNPInitStartTimeMS">18</Data>
    <Data Name="BootPNPInitDuration">123706</Data>
    <Data Name="OtherKernelInitDuration">1926</Data>
    <Data Name="SystemPNPInitStartTimeMS">125456</Data>
    <Data Name="SystemPNPInitDuration">1075</Data>
    <Data Name="SessionInitStartTimeMS">126709</Data>
    <Data Name="Session0InitDuration">1690</Data>
    <Data Name="Session1InitDuration">366</Data>
    <Data Name="SessionInitOtherDuration">8182</Data>
    <Data Name="WinLogonStartTimeMS">136948</Data>
    <Data Name="OtherLogonInitActivityDuration">15108</Data>
    <Data Name="UserLogonWaitDuration">8137</Data>
  </EventData>
</Event>
 
Last edited by a moderator:

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 8
Hi,
To fix DRIVER_POWER_STATE_FAILURE problem:
_Go to control panel>>>>Open up hardware and sound>>>>>Go to device manager>>>>>Browse through all the devices and hardware and look for a yellow exclamation mark>>>>If you find a yellow exclamation mark, Unplug each USB device one by one until the exclamation mark goes, When gone you should know which USB device is causing this problem.
And for the main problem:
_type in search: msconfig>>>>open it then go to services tab>>>>> check hide all microsoft services then click disable all then reboot and see if the boot is slow.
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 10
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    HP
    CPU
    Intel Core i7
    Graphics Card(s)
    Nvidia Geforce GTX 680
    Sound Card
    idfk
    Screen Resolution
    15' 1080p display
    Internet Speed
    70Mbps
    Browser
    Google Chrome Canary
    Antivirus
    AVAST Premiere 2015
Nothing in Device Manager has an exclamation mark next to it. I have updated all drivers for the devices. All no windows services have been disabled. Still having the same problem. I will try to restart in safe mode and report back. Thank you.
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 8
As you're probably already aware, this will show a comprehensive breakdown of everything that is loaded upon startup of the OS. Just like you were attempting to do with msconfig and in your services module, you want to basically turn everything off that is not absolutely essential to the OS, restart, and reenable things one by one until you find the culprit.

But let's start with a few questions, then maybe we'll run the cmd line version of Autoruns (which came with the download) so we pipe the output to a logfile if nothing jumps out at you when you scan the GUI version.

1. First though, have you by any chance enabled any options in your BIOS that have to do with network boot?
2. When you did the clean install, was it a true install with a windows disk (and did you format before), or was it a system restore with an Asus factory disk?
3. How did you install the laptop's drivers? Was it a pre-pack, all-in-one driver file from Asus? Or a whole bunch of individual driver files for each component in your system?
4. What type of HD are you using, how many partitions, and did you do anything beyond the defaults during the OS install?
5. Do you have any kind of drive compression or encryption (either in software or built-in) turned on?
6. Is the amount of RAM you have installed reported correctly in BIOS and in Windows?
7. Have you changed any policies in the policy editor? Made any tweaks?
8. Do you have an AV/Malware/etc programs installed? Set to run or update at startup?


Basically, after you made the clean install, what options or settings did you turn on/off? What programs/utils have you installed?

Also make sure you have no install disks/usb/printers/ethernet/peripherals attached. Turn off automatic updates, system restore, and disable hibernation.

Let me know and we'll continue from here.
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Win8 Pro
Hi raywashere889,
Yeah i think you should try what lastof told you and how about running the PC in safe mode did it take long?
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 10
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    HP
    CPU
    Intel Core i7
    Graphics Card(s)
    Nvidia Geforce GTX 680
    Sound Card
    idfk
    Screen Resolution
    15' 1080p display
    Internet Speed
    70Mbps
    Browser
    Google Chrome Canary
    Antivirus
    AVAST Premiere 2015
Midou,
I would think booting into safe mode should clear the problem as well, then maybe we can narrow things down. If it doesn't, my guess would be that it could be hardware related, since the problem seems to have persisted through 2 seperate installs, but that might not mean much depending on exactly what he means by "clean install".
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Win8 Pro
My desktop was taking some minutes booting up with all the stuff that was being loaded, even with a fairly clean load of W8.1. What brought that time way down was to clone my traditional electromechanical C: hard drive to a Samsung SSD 840 EVO 500GB and install that. I'll never use a traditional hard drive as a boot drive again - ever. With SSD prices coming down every day, that might be a simple solution for you with no real compromise of function.

Bye. :cool:
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 8.1 Pro
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    White Box DIY
    CPU
    i7-5960X
    Motherboard
    ASRock X99M Extreme4
    Memory
    16 GB
    Graphics Card(s)
    nVidia GTX 760
    Hard Drives
    Plextor 512GB M.2 SSD
    Seagate 6TB HDD
While the SSD will be faster no doubt, there is no reason that a traditional SATA drive should take a couple of minutes to boot the OS. I think the biggest culprit to lagging boot times, and slow performance in general, is all the proprietary crap that a lot of the top mfg's bog down computers with. They make it even worse when someone had the brilliant idea some years ago to stop including an OEM copy of the OS when you purchased the computer, so you cannot really do a 'clean install' - all you can do is a recovery with all the bloat that was originally loaded in the first place. I firmly believe that most computers would be almost 50% faster if you wipe HD of the factory crap, install windows from an OS disk, and then load the drivers you need individually from there.
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Win8 Pro
My desktop had no crapware as I had built it from scratch. However, it does have a number of useful background applications I choose to load, and the sum of that meant minutes of boot up time, which with an SSD is maybe a fourth of what it was. Your mileage may vary. :)

Bye. :cool:
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 8.1 Pro
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    White Box DIY
    CPU
    i7-5960X
    Motherboard
    ASRock X99M Extreme4
    Memory
    16 GB
    Graphics Card(s)
    nVidia GTX 760
    Hard Drives
    Plextor 512GB M.2 SSD
    Seagate 6TB HDD
My desktop had no crapware as I had built it from scratch. However, it does have a number of useful background applications I choose to load, and the sum of that meant minutes of boot up time, which with an SSD is maybe a fourth of what it was. Your mileage may vary. :)

Bye. :cool:

Yea me too Clean installed 8.1, no crap ware except of my own doing, I have 4 gadgets that take a good 20 seconds to load doubling my boot time. Hoping in the future Metro Apps will replace them and my boot times will shorten. LOL a couple of years ago who would have thought that 40 Second boot time was slow. SSD's have changed our worlds. From the beginning I don't remember anything that made this much difference. Well maybe Windows 2000 the first really working Windows
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 8.1 Pro MC
    Computer type
    Laptop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    Asus G75VW / Z97 Pro
    CPU
    Intel Core i7-3610QM / I7-4790K
    Motherboard
    Z97 Pro
    Memory
    16 GB Hyundai HTM315156CFR8C-PB PC3-12800
    Graphics Card(s)
    nVIDIA GeForce GTX 670M (GF114M)
    Sound Card
    VIA 6.0.10.1600
    Screen Resolution
    1080
    Hard Drives
    Samsung 850 Pro 256, Samsung 850 Pro 1TB
    Internet Speed
    30 down 3 up
    Browser
    Explorer 11
    Antivirus
    NIS and Malwarebytes
After eliminating all other possibilities, I tried to install a fresh copy of Windows 8 from an OEM iso file and it installed fine and the computer starts up in about 30 secs now. It turns out that the recovery partition installed on my laptops hard drive might have been corrupted so when I recovered the windows installation from there, it recovered a corrupted copy. Thank you all for the suggestions and helping me figure this out.
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 8
You can thank us by giving a rep to all of us and marking this thread as solved :)
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 10
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    HP
    CPU
    Intel Core i7
    Graphics Card(s)
    Nvidia Geforce GTX 680
    Sound Card
    idfk
    Screen Resolution
    15' 1080p display
    Internet Speed
    70Mbps
    Browser
    Google Chrome Canary
    Antivirus
    AVAST Premiere 2015
Back
Top