New Asrock Build Boot Up Takes too Long?

I have SSD (Samsung EVO 860) on the current system. Its the UEFI BIOS that slows the boot process.

My old system was an ASRock gaming motherboard, Non UEFI with an i7 3770 and mechanical hard drive.

I discovered that its possible to convert an MBR volume to GPT without reformatting and reinstalling everything so I did that. My boot drive is now GPT. It was unable to convert my data drive because of the 512 byte sector size? But anyway, I went into the UEFI and disabled the CSM now that I am booting with a GPT volume. My boot drive is now labeled in the BIOS as "windows boot manager". I timed it again, and it shaved about 5 seconds off so I get to the windows screen in 35 seconds.

It was 15 seconds of black screen and a cursor to get to the ASRock screen, it sat there for 11, then at 26 it beeped, went black, and the windows logo came up a couple seconds later.

Could there be something with the ram? On the main page of the UEFI it lists my total ram of 8gb, and then A2 with 4gb and B2 with 4gb but it does not say Dual Channel Mode. I've seen some videos on Youtube with the ASRock UWFI and it says it. I am running G.Skill Aegis 2x4gb kit of DDR4 2400; on the OC page there is no XMP profile listed or option to select one. It shows my ram running at 2400.

Now that I have CSM disabled I don't think it is the video card and its legacy firmware but I don't know.

Asrock systems boot very fast

#1 Update the Bios
#2 Make sure your drive is being Achi and not IDE even though it should auto do this
#3 Fast Boot should be a 3 second boot time from Bios to boot Ultra you wont see anything straight to the OS
#4 If your Bios is up dated and it is still taking some time consider your boards Sata Ports could be damage or just a bad made board
Many factors but yours seems to be Bios and boot related also if you have a board that supports 28 lanes etc you might have too many pci-e devices killing your joy just saying

My BIOS version says P3.90. When I look on their site, the most recent download is 3.90 but it says they do not recommend updating this if Pinnacle Ridge CPU is being used. Ryzen 5 2600 is Pinnacle Ridge. Drive is AHCI.

I only have 1 PCI-E device - the video card - not counting the M.2 drive.

Brucex64 said:

My BIOS version says P3.90. When I look on their site, the most recent download is 3.90 but it says they do not recommend updating this if Pinnacle Ridge CPU is being used. Ryzen 5 2600 is Pinnacle Ridge. Drive is AHCI.

I only have 1 PCI-E device - the video card - not counting the M.2 drive.

Then that could be effecting your boot cpu is struggling to do the instructions

Updating my post: I decided to pull the trigger and buy a new modern video card. Being a budget system, I bought a RX-560 which has the AMD GPU for my AMD system. Still not impressive boot times, but there is an improvement. Now, it goes from power on to the ASRock screen at 10 seconds, holds there for 11; then takes around 5 to get to the Windows screen at 27-ish. So its 10 seconds faster. I also turned off the Compatibility setting in the UEFI since I don't need it anymore and just for kicks swapped my RAM modules to A1 & B1 from A2/B2.

I tried selecting Ultra Fast Boot but it does not work - it still took 27 seconds.

I really wonder why some people have very fast booting Ryzen systems & what the difference is.