Acer Aspire take more than 1 hour to boot

[avinban]

The problem started a couple of months ago.Initially it started with a single short beep sound during start up.Then the sound was infrequent.Then the boot time increased from 2 mins initially to more than 1 hour over a period of 1 month.Sometimes if I powered off and on when it was still trying to boot, it would boot much quicker ie 10 mins.Once booted everything is normal.No errors and no sluggishness.I don't know why I didn't ask anyone earlier,I just though it would somehow fix itself.
I did an antivirus/malware,chkdsk which all came out normal
I sent it to a local tech shop and they said it could be a hard drive problem or motherboard problem.They say they can't fix it as it is not booting.(Was booting one day ago)
They opened ,cleaned and tightened stuff inside but still no luck.
Anyone out there who can help?????
Thanks
Specs:
Acer Aspire e15
4gb ram, 64 bit windows 8
Geforce 840M
Intel graphic card

I don't have the laptop with me right now an this is the info I can give.

 

[scout_03]

when you gone have it check the hhd and go to the maker site they have a free software to test it .

 

[Prostar Computer]

I think that's a normal boot time for Acer Aspires. 😛

If the system is running okay once booted into the Windows desktop, the hard drive is probably okay. You can use any free hard drive diagnostic utility to test it if you want to make certain (something like HDDScan or the like).

I suggest bringing the laptop to a competent technician to troubleshoot this, as it could be any number of things (likely either problematic software loading at startup, or an issue with Windows). Cleaning and tightening things in an effort to remedy this kind of problem sounds incredibly naive. This issue is fixable.

 

[avinban]

Hi Prostar,
Thanks for the suggestion.Do you think it could be because the boot file went corrupt?I had read it somewhere in this forum.
Thanks,
Avin

 

[Prostar Computer]

Hi Prostar,
Thanks for the suggestion.Do you think it could be because the boot file went corrupt?I had read it somewhere in this forum.
Thanks,
Avin

You're welcome Avin.

A corrupt or missing boot file would pretty much result in Windows not loading at all (receiving the "no operating system detected" message). I think you just have something funny going on within Windows. It may be repairable, but a quicker solution would be to reinstall Windows altogether methinks.

 

[ffg7]

sounds like a possible cold solder joint on the motherboard as ran into a similar problem with my step father's radioshack model 4 computer almost 30yrs ago. floppy controller had to be hand resoldered as the computer did not have a hard drive but used 5.25" floppy disks. problem went away after i resoldered that board.