Laptop boots for over 3 hours

[INJAC]

Yesterday i closed the screen and saw that it didnt turn off the pc waited around 10 minutes still didnt go to sleep mode, since my monitor was black i turned it off on the off button, after few hours i turned it on again the HP logo came on and the cpu fan started to cool very fast and few seconds later it shuts down the whole laptop, tried it again few times same thing happends. I let it cool down truned on after few hours and it took around 1h to get off the HP logo, then another 30 min to load the first bios letters and numbers (sorry i dont know how that screen is called), then Windows started loading took another 2 hours to enter the system. I tried doing some stuff but everything was messed up didnt have any important stuff and it was time for a fresh system so i decided to make a new fresh instalation. Truned it on waited a hour to load bios then i started the boot cd it took another 30min until i got the "Install now" windows instaling screen, after that it was prepairing for 4h until i got to the part where i choose on which partition i want to install, and again the instalation took another 3h (not the % part but the part where "windows is finishing installation", finally got the windows working, but it still takes around 2h from the bios to desktop to load. Every single operation or loading before the system comes to desktop takes 30min-3hours. Can anyone point me where the problem is or has had similar problems.

My laptop is HP 625
CPU: AMD Athlon II P340 / 2.2 GHz Dual core
HDD: 320 GB
RAM: 2 GB DDR3
GPU: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4200

Thank you in advance

 

[Brillis Wuce]

1. Disable hibernation. It usually causes more problems than its worth on low end PC's.

2. Disable any non-essential startup programs (enter msconfig in "Run")

3. Defragment your HDD

4. Run a "chkdsk" in your command prompt to check for errors

5. Use an HDD monitoring software (http/www.techsupportalert.com/best-free-hd-health-monitoring-and-diagnostic-programs.htm#CrystalDiskInfo)



Hibernation - https/support.microsoft.com/kb/920730

 

[INJAC]

Thank you for reply
1) Disabled it
2) Its a fresh system so i dont have any programs
3) Did that

For 4 and 5th suggestion i did all of that here are screenshots but my knowledge about it is very low, can you maybe explain me what is good and what is bad in the following screenshots and what may my solutions be

Since i put on a fresh system, i tried to install the required drivers for this lap top but every single installation took for 30min-1h to complete it completes it but very slowly. And today it took me 8 hours for the system to boot up 2hours of HP logo then 6 hours of windows logo while loading windows. When i enter the system everything works normally except the installations of drivers and programs.

Thank you in advance

 

[Brillis Wuce]

Your screenshots show that there is nothing technically wrong with your hard drive. Are you running Windows 7?

I'm beginning to suspect its the RAM. 2GB just isn't enough. 4GB has become the bare minimum standard. If your RAM fills up quickly, it limits the PC in the same way a bottleneck affects cars on the freeway.

When I looked up your laptop on Newegg, it showed it being sold with 3GB. Are you sure yours has just 2?

 

[INJAC]

Yes im running windows 7 have been running it for past 3 years, on the 2 GB of RAM, nothing was changed or modified on it since i bought it in 2011, it was working perfectly until the other day started booting for hours.

 

[Brillis Wuce]

Open the bottom of your laptop and clean out the dust. Also, check and reseat all cable connections. Do you monitor your temperatures?

 

[INJAC]

Yes hardware is dust clean everything is connect did that first when i saw it was booting so long, cleaned up the cooling system, put the thermal paste on cpu and checked that everything is connected

 

[Brillis Wuce]

I hate to say it, but this might be best taken into a repair shop. You could try swapping out the hard drive with a new one, but it's up in the air if that's even the cause, although there's a good chance that's what it is.