Extremely Slow Boot Time

Check AC power or just use good UPS Battery.

What Morblore said and also check HDD for errors. If machine got bumped hard, it might have damaged it.

Is there a chance something could have come loose when you moved? You should open the case and try reseating the memory and expansion cards. Then check all the power and SATA cables to be safe.

You can try the Windows startup repair too:

www.sevenforums.com/.../681-startup-repair.html

Mine is a brand new R4 and its slower starting than my 6 year old XPS with XP SP4. I run into your problem often . the trick was to:

Umplug power from the back.

press on/off button to a count of 30 (you will hear a slight tick) let go of the on/off , reconnect A/C

press on/off.

This HAS to be a BIOS issue with all the thingamabob of the lights and the temp controls.  When it decides to get fast is fast . but boot ups and shutdowns are ridiculously slow. hope this helps.

I had an epiphany and tried a boot with only the HD with the OS available as the start boot sequence. disconnected all my USB except the keyboard and mouse. and the boot was like half the time ! I started adding USB devices but only kept the HD as a boot device (which can be changed on the fly with F12) and an external USB 3 backup slowed the system but not as slow as it was.. I had never turned off a PC . My XPS has been running for 6 years and it only went off when we got hit by sandy. But the Alienware after two days it hangs even if i dont set it to sleep. A friend who's an engineer for Seagate told me that the drives used in the Alienware are not the BEST in class so the idea of them running constantly was not good. I am hoping they realize the BIOS sucks and the virtual USB bridge is junk. The balance of like / don't like is tilting heavily to the don't like.

I have heard the same thing about the Seagate drives that Dell uses in the Alienware computers not being the best. But what is best? Have a friend that has a XPS 435T that went through 2 Western drives in 7 months. The last time Dell replaced it with a Seagate. That was 3 years ago, he never turns it off and has never had a problem. I really don't trust any of them and have a 1T backup drive and all my important stuff, pictures, files and such on thumb drives. Which BIOS do you have?

WD are the worst man , but the deal here is that Dell is an OEM and these disks come in by the thousandths in the little antistatic bag and Seagate clears a lot of obsolete stock that way. The original R4 I got the disc was so old Seagate had no references to the model only to tell me it was a refurb. To be fair Dell sent me a $400 3TB designed for a PowerEdge. Now THIS is one sweet drive. my BIOS is the  A07 and I found (by accident) the fact the system never goes past 3.7Gz is because Core one comes with it set a 3.8 if you set all cores at 0 (No override) you finally see the Intel powerboost hit 4.1 and run no risk of overheating and they do gp from nicely frosty from hell hot in a sec.

I got mine up to 4.1 once, that was when I was loading over10,000 pictures at one time. I opened CPU-Z and watched it that way. The stepping that Intal uses works great. Only uses it when it needs it, saves on power and heat.