Excruciatingly slow boot time, internet also lagging badly

Okay, the sfc one is complete.   The result:

"Windows Resource Protection did not find any integrity violations."

Next one is running now.

Thank you for sharing the finish output of the commands. The output of the SFC command indicates there are no corrupted Windows system files.

There's the result of the second.

Running the third now.

This is what I got when I entered the last one.   What's NTFS?  Should I hit Y?

The third command you will be ask you too schedule a error checking C: partition press Y key and restart your computer. The error checking can take some time to finish.

Edit: NTFS is a file system use to store data on a partition.

Okay, I restarted after hitting Y.

Nothing popped up or anything once Windows loaded... does that mean its okay?   (Boot time is still long)

You mean there was no error checking of C: partition after you restarted your computer if yes then try the Chkdsk C: /r command again.

I don't know if it did it, I hit Y and then enter when I ran it, and it said it would be run when I restarted my computer.

I just mean nothing popped up when I logged in again after restart, saying it had happened... is there usually something that pops up indicating that it's been done?

Open the Run dialog box by pressing the Windows logo + R keys on your keyboards. Type “eventvwr.msc” and click the “OK’’ button.
Event Viewer window will appear on the screen. Click on “Windows Logs” from the left pane of the window.
Now look for “Applications” and right-click on it.
It will open another menu where you can choose the “Filter Current Log” option. Click on that so you can then choose the log you want to see.
From the Event sources drop-down menu, check the box next to “Chkdsk”.
Scroll down to reach the bottom of the list and check a checkmark in the box next to “wininit” as well. You will also want to include the wininit logs.
Close the drop-down and then click on the “OK” button for the Event Viewer to get the options that you just choose above.


You will now see the information log. Click to check it. Double-click on it. All of the information that was initially available from the Command Prompt window after running the Check Disk system tool is now available in the Event Properties window.

If you can post a screenshot of the chkdsk log.

I can get as far as this step, but the "event sources" drop down isn't actually a drop down, when I click the triangle beside it, nothing happens at all.  Same with the other drop down menu on that page.  Should I just type "chkdsk" on the event sources thing?

Edit: Do I have to pick an "event level" for it to work?

I have no problem i don't know why it wont work for you.



Give me few minutes for me to write you instruction on how to ran Chkdsk from Windows Recovery Environment.

*sigh* I'm sorry.  I don't know why my computer is being such a pain in the a**.  This is so freaking frustrating.

Have you found the Chkdsk log?

In Windows 10 click and click the Power icon hold down Shift key and click Restart. This make your computer boot into Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE).

To access WinRE from Windows 10 click “Troubleshoot”.



After you click Troubleshoot the Troubleshoot screen appears.



Click “Advanced options” on the Troubleshoot screen to access more WinRE recovery utility’s in “Advanced options” screen.



Please type below command into Command Prompt and press Enter key.

Following command will fixes errors on the disk and locates bad sectors and recovers readable information.






Please replace partition letter D: with Windows installed partition letter.  When computer boots into Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE) environment the drive letter assign to Windows partition may not be C: drive letter because Windows 7, 8 , 8.1 and 10 creates a separate system partition when it's installed from scratch. The system partition contains boot files WinRE assigns the system partition the C: drive letter and the Windows installed partition will be assign any other drive letter usually D: drive letter is assign to Windows installed partition. The Bcdedit /enum | find "osdevice" command can be use to find out the drive letter of the Windows installed partition the output of the Bcdedit command is similar to this osdevice partition=D:. The drive letter after partition= is the drive letter of the Windows partition.

Okay I did all that, it’s definitely running for sure now

Fantastic, if you can post a screenshot of finish output of the Chkdsk command.

Alrighty, I will.  Looks like it’ll take a while, it’s only 3% done

Hey so it FINALLY finished, like 6 hours later...  Sorry for the quality, but I wasn't sure if a screenshot would work when in this mode so I took a pic instead.



What now?  Problem is not solved, boot still took a while, though I forgot to time it.  It's still at least the 6 and a half mins though.

What is brand name and module number of your computer?

Asus FX53V

Is this your laptop?

https://www.asus.com/Laptops/ASUS-FX553VD/

Almost.  Mine doesn't have i7, it only has i5.  It looks almost the same, like a less good version of that one.

I found the bestbuy listing, here:  https://www.bestbuy.ca/en-ca/product/asus-asus-fx53-15-6-gaming-laptop-black-red-intel-core-i5-7300hq-1tb-hdd-12gb-ram-windows-10-fx53vd-bs51-cb/10573737.aspx

Can you please visit Asus support site and install drivers for your laptop.

https://www.asus.com/us/support/

How do I install the drivers?  I've downloaded some of them and extracted the .zip files but I dont see them where I extracted them to (in the downloads folder)

Can you give me the link to Asus support site and let me know which driver you are trying to install.



Press Windows key + X.
Click Device Manager.
Once device manager is open, select the device, right click it and click Update Driver Software. This will launch the update driver software wizard, which presents two options:
Search automatically for updated driver software – its possible Windows might have the driver software if you have not checked it yet, if its taking too long, then the next option is usually best.
Browse my computer for driver software – if there is a compatible driver and you already have the driver files, then all you need to do is point to it and Windows automatically install it for you.

Here select to use an existing driver, browse to where the driver package is located on your computer, whether that is a partition, network share, thumb-drive or install disc. Make sure the option to Include subfolders is checked. Click Next and wait while the wizard completes the installation.

https://www.asus.com/us/supportonly/FX53VD/HelpDesk_Download/

Okay.  I don't have enough time to do them all now, but I will continue later after I work.

I understand.

If there is executable setup file for a driver double click it to install the driver. If there is no executable setup file then use the Device Manager to install the driver.

Okay the two I had time for were the firmware (BIOS) one and the nvidia one.  When I tried to update the firmware one it said that the best ones are already installed.    The nvidia one updated with the driver that I downloaded.

The best one already installed means that the currently installed a driver or firmware upgrade have the same version as the one you trying to install.

Skip the ones you get best one installed massage.

@alewiina don't use Windows Update to install device drivers always install device drivers from either from your laptop manufacturer website or from device manufacturer website.

So right after the graphics driver installed, the whole screen went dark and I couldn’t do anything... so I had to hard restart.  Let it restart, it got to the windows login, so I logged in, but then it was just stuck on a black screen and wouldn’t load my UI.  I had to leave and now I’m going to work with worried knots in my stomach

It happens when installing graphic card drive your screen will go black how long did you wait before restarting your laptop?

I’m not sure, I didn’t know that   so when I restart it later it’ll probably be fine?

We deal with it when you are free.

Okay.  I hope it’s not dead

Okay I’m home.

I turned it back on.  It’s back to the ~6.5 minute boot time that I originally had the problem with.  It loaded fine at first, displayed the Windows Live background thing, I put in my PIN to login, etc.

I saw the outline of my desktop and icons for a few seconds and then it went back to the black screen, which is how it still is now.  I get a cursor with a blue loading wheel if I move the mouse, and I know the display is on, because it’s a bit lit (not like a powered off screen) but otherwise nothing.  It’s been black for 8 mins as of this post.

Edit: it’s now been 40 mins.  Still black, still a cursor when I move the mouse

From the login screen press and hold down Shift key and click Restart to boot your computer into Safe Mode. Within Safe Mode uninstall the driver from Device Manager.

I tried to do that.  When I restarted it, Windows automatically started “working on updates”.   When that was finished, my computer got a BSOD and restarted itself.  This has happened 4 times now, it restarts and BSODs.   The error is DRIVE_POWER_STATE_FAILURE, which I gather from googling is because of an incompatible driver.  I don’t know how I’m supposed to fix this now, I can’t even get to the login screen

You can force your computer to boot into Windows Recovery Environment by force shutting down your computer soon as Windows 10 tries to boot shutdown your computer by doing this five times the Automatic Startup Repair will take over and try to repair your system after Automatic Startup Repair finish if it has not resolved the issue then there will be option to restore your system to a date when it was working also there will be a link to Advanced Tool which is where you can start your computer into Safe Mode.

Okay I managed to get it to Startup repair, which is now running.  It’s going to have to run overnight, because I can’t stay up much longer. Hopefully I’ll wake up to some good news

After we deal with BSoD error and get Windows working i think we going to have to get dirty and one at time found the device drivers from device manufacturer websites.

How is everything progressing, do you need more assistant on this issue?

Hey, sorry, I was working all day yesterday and didnt get a chance to come online.

Startup repair has seemingly fixed all my issues.  The laptop boots in less than 2 mins, and everything's running quick and as it did before.  I have no idea what it fixed (I went to bed long before it finished), but it worked!

Thanks for all your help. I learned how to do several things throughout this process that will help in the future, too!

We are glad to hear your issue has been resolved, thank you for letting us know that all is now well!

I forget to add that we have a tutorial for making Windows OS faster i will leave the link below.

Tweaking & Optimizing Window Operating System