Very Slow Startup

[pcpunk]

As suspected, the HP Support Assistant did not pick up the "coprocessor" Driver that I had hoped it would? nor any other drivers?

[Chimney_83]

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[pcpunk]

As an Employee you should have access to better information, this is a clean install, there will be no "Recovery" done here.  Do you have any resources that will tell us why I cannot find the "coprocessor" Driver, or if it is even needed?  Otherwise the computer runs well enough.

[mdklassen]

>  Recommend you perform a recovery on your computer and let me know if it helped.

Wow!  Talk about dropping a nuclear bomb onto a house fly hiding inside a bomb shelter. 

If the fly survives, the bomb "did not help".

A complete "reinstall" requires many steps:

* inventory of installed free software, e.g., Adobe Reader, Audacity, anti-virus, et cetera -- to re-download and reinstall;

* inventory of commercial software, e.g., Microsoft Office -- to ensure that you have the product-keys and installation media;

* purchase of an external disk-drive for "backup" purposes;

* backup of all bookmarks/documents/pictures/music/video/E-mail to the external device;

* verification that you have the Installation Media for your original "as-shipped" version of Microsoft Windows;

* did you accept the "free upgrade to Windows 10" that was offered in 2015/2016?  If so, you'll need to download Windows 10 (which will be the March-2017 Creators Edition) to install from it;

* and more

> If you found this post helpful, you can let others know by clicking the “Accept as Solution” button.

Did you notice that the author has previously clicked there, and thus cannot "re-click" ? 

[mdklassen]

> I just did a Clean Instal of Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit.

OK.  Not running Windows 10 (yet).

I looked at:

https://support.hp.com/us-en/drivers/selfservice/hp-pavilion-p6300-desktop-pc-series/4079858/model/4...

for all the available device-drivers for your model, when running Windows 7, and none of them seemed to address your issue.

This might imply that the update is an "optional" update delivered only through Windows Update.

Have you run Windows Update, and looked at all the "optional" updates that it offers?

[pcpunk]

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@mdklassen wrote:

This might imply that the update is an "optional" update delivered only through Windows Update.

Have you run Windows Update, and looked at all the "optional" updates that it offers?

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Yes, I don't see anything available, and have run it a few times.  

Never seen anything like this, although have not worked with but one Nvidia machine on a Linux Box.  Haven't had much time to look at it again but will soon.

[pcpunk]

I going to install some windows updates, geforce and an Audio

-nVidia - Display - NVIDIA GeForce 9100

-Audio - Realtek High Definition Audio

Just glad everything seems to work, but not impressed with Nvidia, and think Nvidia has something to do with all this.  Same thing on Linux, a big pain in the butt!  

Just to complain for a minute LOL, I don't know if I would ever buy a computer with Nvidia Graphics, of course I don't game...yet LOL.  The same goes for AMD Stuff, I've had nothing but issues finding drivers and the correct terms on both their websites.

Now, I would still like to understand all this, and why now don't have the Nvidia Control Panel to manipulate things.  Perhaps I needed to uninstall Nvidia Driver before the Rollback? but I don't know now if that is possible at all...well... just installed a new one anyhow so we'll see.  Or perhaps the MS Nividia driver don't have this option?

Thanks pcpunk

[pcpunk]

Good!  After installing these two things the Problem Deivce Warning is gone, and the Nvidia Control Panel now works.  Graphics are still not as good as when the original MS Drivers were installed but I would think this could be tweaked if wanted:

-nVidia - Display - NVIDIA GeForce 9100

-Audio - Realtek High Definition Audio

Thanks mdklassen, you were right, the ms updates fixed things.  None of it made sense to me LOL but it's fixed and that's the most important thing for now.  Now need to learn how to use the Nvidia Control Panel.  Right now things look well enough but Icons are a little...(very little) fuzzy and things in general are just to bright, for lack of better term.

Thanks again, pcpunk