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Cold start OK, reboot hangs on splash screen
The machine is MSI Titan GT80 running latest-greatest Win10.
The problem began after I installed an AHCI driver as I moved the machine from the RAID mode to AHCI mode in BIOS.
I undid the RAID configuration a while back but it stayed configured in the RAID mode and booted/rebooted with no issues.
The problem however, in the RAID mode, the machine would not detect one of my SSDs, because not having an active RAID and just the setting meant it defaulted to the IDE mode as far as I understand which is inferior to the AHCI.
Now in the AHCI mode in bios and a AHCI driver installed, a cold boot takes 15 seconds and a reboot hangs on the splash screen.
I disabled fast boot, now the button can't be even checked on:
Ran sfc /scannow with no errors.
Turned off hybernation:
The fast boot however is still enabled in BIOS, should I turn that off?
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could it be this driver needs to be updated?