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SSD Boot Time 90+ Seconds
I have a Samsung 830 SSD that I've been using for a couple of years. When I first used it, I had cold boot times of ~20 seconds. I've since upgraded parts around, but kept the same SSD. But after a couple months in my latest upgrade, I notice longer boot times.
I have the ASUS Strix B350-F motherboard, so when the computer first boots up, the BIOS screen with the ASUS ROG logo appears for about 5 seconds. Then it flashes to black. Then the ASUS ROG logo re-appears, but without the "Press F2/Del to enter UEFI BIOS" at the bottom, and these white dots spinning in a circle appear at the bottom. It is at this point where it stays at this "loading" screen for about 90 seconds before I get to the desktop (very reminiscent of the old Windows horizontal progress bar from the old XP days).
I've listed the solutions I've tried so far and nothing that I've done below seems to have made any improvement in the boot times:
- I made sure to enable TRIM and optimize the SSD according to this tutorial
- I went into my BIOS and check that Fast Boot was enabled and it was set to AHCI mode. Confirmed both are the modes that were set
- Since I have a Samsung SSD, I downloaded and installed Samsung Magician utility to see if it had any performance options to fix anything. It has a "Performance Optimization" which just brought up the Windows Defrag. I set the "Over Provisioning", but it doesn't look like its meant to speed up the boot times, just the life of the SSD by setting an unallocated partition.
- I read that Windows might be taking the time to load its native display drivers so I updated my graphics card's display drivers.
- I've updated the motherboard BIOS to the latest version on the ASUS support website.
- Since it was an old SSD from an old PC that ran Windows 7 and moved to a newer build, when I first put Windows 10 on it, it was still running in legacy mode and not UEFI. I changed it to boot BIOS mode to UEFI mode a couple months ago, and I think this might be around the time I noticed boot times getting longer. Confirmed it changed BIOS Mode to UEFI under "msinfo32". I didn't do a clean install of Windows 10 and now I wonder whether or not I should have done that.