It takes 7 minutes for the screen to appear

[gcosta9086]

7 minutes delay for the screen to appear.

[sathya11]

Hello,

Try loading to Safe Mode with Networking by tapping F8 as soon as you turn it ON and check if is slow there as well.

How to Enter Safe Mode With Networking: 

Once in Safe Mode with Networking do a 

How to do a clean startup: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/331796

Check the difference in performance while in normal mode and safe mode. If it works fine in Safe Mode then most likely a software issue or virus issue. 

If the system is still slow in Safe Mode then run a hard drive diagnostics and Let me know what happens..

Here are the link with the steps to perform System Diagnostics on the hard drive:

System Diagnostics (F2)

Or,

Perform Hard Drive Tests

Please let me know what happens after that.

Thanks!

I am a HP employee.

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[iomare · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Try this patch released by HP to resolve the problem.

Info about patch

http://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp81501-82000/sp81965.html

Download patch

http://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp81501-82000/sp81965.exe

Install and reboot PC

Hope it helps, 

David

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[gcosta9086]

Many thanks to the Distinguished Professor who told me to download a patch  released by HP for this problem. Now my PC boots instantly. What is a mystery for me is why HP released this patch but kept it secret.

[iomare]

Your welcome. I am on the forum a lot so that is how I learnt about patch.

Let me know if you need any further help.

All the best,

David

[gcosta9086]

Many thanks again David. No further help is needed. Cheers, George.

[gcosta9086]

Many thanks Sathya, but I followed David's answer which was simpler ie., download the HP patch released for this purpose and now my Pavilion PC boots Instantly.