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Sudden Long Boot?
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Posted by: matt.modica
Very recently, my computer suddenly was taking a long time to boot. It sits at the screen where it shows the big acer logo for 1-2 minutes (normally only showing this screen for 5 or less seconds). Then I enter my password (my computer requires a password to boot) and wait for another minute for the windows loading screen to show when normally it shows instantly. Once windows loads, everything works fine. This only started happening after I recived an update for Adobe acrobat reader (version 7.0.7), so I went to uninstall the update in add or remove programs, but I could not remove the update without removing the whole program. I just did a virus scan and a defrag, so thats not the problem. Any ideas why this might be happening?
Posted by: teraside
It could be that your computer is having trouble detecting your hardware soon enough. My only advice would be to take your pc to an extremely technical oriented friend. He should check that your computer hardware is firmly situated (hard drives, cd-roms, ram etc.) He should also check whether your BIOS is configured proparly, it could be that a power flux or something caused your pc to set the default values for it's BIOS. If you are brave enough to check these things yourself, post a reply and tell me you're brave 
Posted by: redwench
sounds like a hardware issue, rather than software. although there is no need to fear completely uninstalling adobe, its easily replaced.
Posted by: gam3r
My computer does the same thing but for windows start up. I will start my computer up, it will beep, show me the asus menu for about 15 seconds, and then take almost up to 45 seconds to load windows. It's very weird.
Posted by: matt.modica
I noticed that when it shows the acer screen, there is no disk activity, the disk light doesn't come on or flash to indicate activity. I'm trying to avoid rebooting, but between Windows and McAfee updates, I have to reboot more often than I would like to.
I wouldn't mind going into the BIOS. I have never actually been in there because I haven't had the need, so I will need a little instruction...
Posted by: matt.modica
I finally solved it. I had a bad DIMM on one of the ram sticks. Lately, Windows had suddenly been freezing randomly, sometimes when I had no programs running. I looked around on the internet, and I read that this could be caused bya bad DIMM. So I swapped my current RAM for the old sticks I had before I upgraded to 1024 MB, and the computer didn't take long to boot up.
For now I'll just have to get by with 512 MB 
Posted by: matt.modica
I spoke too soon, it wasn't the RAM, it was a USB device. I just had to unplug it durring boot. As for the freezing, I'm still working on it...
Posted by: lcousins
does your motherboard have a little 2 digit display? this handy feature which I think is on nearly all motherboards these days will tell you exactly what it is doing in the early stages of starting your computer, it is a very effective method of identifying exatly which bits of hardware are causing the problem.
you'll need a manual for your motherboard to know what the numbers mean but basically the first few are the atx power on routine, usually two fast to even see, then it will check for the core hardware (cpu, whether power is going to certain places...) before moving onto the bios driven checks which includes ide drives, sata drives, agp and pci cards.
if it gets stuck in the atx power up then you either have an power supply problem or a motherboard problem (rather more unlileky). My guess is at the next stage, dust will have gotten into a connection or something on the motherboard has got itself disconnected hence its repeatedly checking for the same thing till it times out and goes on with the rest of the checks.
good luck!
Posted by: matt.modica
I am sure its caused by the USB devices because when I unplug all of them the entire boot process take only a minute or less. The time it hangs showing the ACER logo depends on how many devices are plugged in to the USB ports; the more devices I have plugged in, the longer it sits at the ACER screen. When all the devices are plugged in, I can tell the processor is doing something because the fan comes on, but there is no disk activity.
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