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XPS 8940, Windows 10 slow boot
Hello,
I recently purchased a XPS 8940 i7 and when I would switch it on Windows 10 login screen would be on display in a matter of seconds. Felt pretty instant. Now, the boot up takes much longer and is very noticeable approx. 30 seconds. My 10 year old XPS 8000 even boots up quicker.
Any ideas what may have caused this slow boot up?
Thanks
My Last BIOS time was 9.7 secs. My time from Power On to the Windows 10 Logon screen is 24-25 secs. You could try disabling some of the high Startup impact applications in the Startup tab of Task Manager to see if there is an improvement. If your total time from Power On to the Windows 10 Logon screen is 30 secs. it is not that bad.
There could be another possible reason why your bootup was faster before. If you are using Fast Startup, Windows boots by restoring memory by reading from the hibernation file. If now Fast Startup is disabled, Windows has to read all startup files from disk separately and load them into memory.
brettfrank99
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Posted April 1st, 2021 05:00
My XPS8940 takes almost 10 minutes to complete boot/startup, pretty sad!
@brettfrank99 What is your 'Last BIOS time' in Task Manager? Has your XPS 8940 always taken 10 minutes to boot/startup?
brettfrank99
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Posted April 7th, 2021 06:00
Brand new machine. Dumping this piece of garbage and going back to my 3 year old PC this weekend.
Hi, have you fixed your PC?
For me, not yet. Seems never maybe.
Bought last November, and now it takes a really long time to restart/start up.
I am not a computer expert, nor I am knowing nothing about it.
I tried a lot of different ways, I reinstalled clean Windows, and no one worked.
I called their service, they told me there was nothing wrong with their hardware. Then maybe I should call Microsoft, does this mean that DELL computer is good and Microsoft is making an ugly Windows 10? Which is only not working properly on my computer? Even after I installed a clean Windows?
Oh yes they gave me another solution: PAY ANOTHER 99 AND THEIR EXPERT WILL FIX IT.
AND THERE ARE TWO MORE ISSUES SO FAR.
1. My keyboard will stop working after a few days/weeks, I have to delete it from my equipment and reinstall it.
2. I have to restart my PC to use my earphone, otherwise it would not work. I did fix it this time by reinstalling a clean Windows, but when I had it from Dell, it did not work.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MMfguRXl9Q&t=12s Take a look.
Vic384
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Posted August 25th, 2020 12:00
Go to Task Manager, Startup tab, and tell us what it says for the 'Last BIOS time'. The time will give us an idea how much time is spent loading the BIOS and how much time is spent loading Windows.