computer takes 8 minutes to boot

Does booting into Safe Mode have any effect on the time?

taramartin81 said:

windows 10 v 21H2

My computer takes 8 minutes to boot windows. I tried reformatting, installing drivers, setting bios settings to default, optimizing page file to no avail. I don't know if it is a hard drive issue or software issue, as I only have one hard drive , a 512 gb ssd.

I tried using Windows Performance Analyzer but cannot figure out what the results mean.

If anyone can help that would be awesome! Also I read that @zinou is really good at this.

here is the file : Download - TransferNow

DO NOT WIPE THAT BOOT DRIVE FOR A REINSTALL YET!! Disconnect all other drives and see what happens. More than once I have seen a secondary drive going bad cause this problem. Once the PC is booted up it will seem fine. I use older drives for backup purposes and occasionally one will start going bad and cause boot times of up to almost 1/2 hour. Usually they are mechanical drives, but last week an older Kingston SSD drive one of my business PCs caused the problem.

taramartin81 said:

I am unable to increase the ram. I tried to once, then the computer died and I had to send it for repairs. They told me they had to plug the motherboard back in and reflash the bios. I got annoyed and sent the ram stick back for a refund since at the time I had no idea it wasn’t the ram that caused the issue, as it took a month for the repair. (Had to send it to cyber power in the mail).
I use it for gaming and for college typing, but very old games like wow classic, diablo 2 , guild wars 1 etc. haven’t found a newer game I like.

Pc specs : 2 years old
Asus prime b450 motherboard
Ryzen 5 3600 cpu
Gigabyte gtx 1560 video
Xpg ssd 512 gig
8 gig crucial ram



Yes I completely shut down and it still takes 8 minutes to boot.
I ran memory diagnostics and it said all good.
I ran crystalinfo and it said my ssd drive was 93% healthy.

I had this issue for a couple of months and decided to reformat the ssd drive and reinstall windows. Problem still exists.

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I didn’t want to buy a new hard drive if I didn’t have to, as I only have one, besides for an external exfat 215 gig usb Corsair hard drive.

Have you tried booting up with that Corsair drive unplugged? Very likely it will boot normally. I think most of the answers you get just MIGHT be making this much harder than it needs to be. At least, for your sake I hope so. If you have a DVD drive unplug that also.

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vgchat said:

That's normally good advice but as she's stated she only has a single m.2 installed and doesn't know how to connect other drives. So it's unlikely that she has more than one installed.

" I only have one, besides for an external exfat 215 gig usb Corsair hard drive." A USB drive absolutely can do this. If she will unplug it we will know right away.

bro67 said:

Sounds more along the lines of a hiberfil.sys issue than hardware. Please download Speccy from Thanks for downloading Speccy When done, post the URL it gives you.

http://speccy.piriform.com/results/3...M7tOk61O6j623I

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dalchina said:

Hi, this could be more precise.

Do you mean...
- after a restart?
- after a cold boot?

(Is there a difference?)

To which point? e.g.
a. To lock screen
b. Until the PC is available for normal use after logging in

Have you made sure Fast Startup is off?


Please ensure these settings are as default.

How much free space do you have on C: ?

** Have you checked your disk?
Try
Hard Disk Sentinel (covers SSDs too) - excellent, full functional trial - result right on its GUI.
Green is good.

What is your WEI score? E.g. via this free tool:
Attachment 380612

Try a speed assessment with Crystal Diskmark (not Diskinfo). Free.

sorry for the late response , the computer boots up slow from restarts , and from a shut down. It is slow after the bios screen turns into the asus screen with a circle moving around for 8 minutes. Then once the login page shows up it is fast. I have 413 gigs free on my 512 gig xpg ssd. I tried crystal disk info but not crystal disc mark. i will try wei soon.

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DONINAUSTIN said:

Have you tried booting up with that Corsair drive unplugged? Very likely it will boot normally. I think most of the answers you get just MIGHT be making this much harder than it needs to be. At least, for your sake I hope so. If you have a DVD drive unplug that also.

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" I only have one, besides for an external exfat 215 gig usb Corsair hard drive." A USB drive absolutely can do this. If she will unplug it we will know right away.

I have tried unplugging everything , didn't help. all usbs, even my keyboard and mouse .. it said no keyboard and continued to boot for 8 minutes.

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Megahertz said:

So it seems to be a M.2 NVMe drive.
Some of them require dedicated drivers.Open Device manager. Is there any yellow alerts of missing drivers?

You didn't do a clean install. A reset uses installation files on the computer that can be corrupted.
To do a Clean Install you must boot from a USB Win 10 installation drive and delete all partitions on the drive. If you have any Factory recover partition it is not updated an is useless.

- Create a USB Win 10 installation drive using MCT
- Boot from the USB Win 10 installation drive

Windows can be installed in two ways: Legacy-MBR or UEFI-GPT
To install as Legacy-MBR you must boot the installation drive as Legacy
To install as UEFI-GPT you must boot the installation drive as UEFI.

As you have a UEFI BIOS, you should install as UEFI-GPT
Detach any other drives (SATA or Power cable) from the MB.

During POST, press F8(?) to launch the boot menu. You will see two options for the USB drive. USB UEFI (Name) and USB (Name). Select USB UEFI (Name) if you want to install as UEFI-GPT or select USB (name) if you want to install as Legacy-MBR.
Go to install and delete ALL partitions on the main drive till you have one and only one unallocated space and then proceed.
If you don't want to use MS account, don't enable updates or connect to the internet during installation.

If I do a clean install , does the windows 10 usb installation allow me to delete partitions? Will it delete the factory recovery partition? I have a uefi bios i believe yes.

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vgchat said:

Ok so first you call it a HDD, then a SSD and now a m.2 ssd. You made us guess without giving us detailed information to start with.

Anyhow with that aside, have you checked for any firmware updates for it?
If not, look here. Support | ADATA

I'll ask the same about the motherboard, have you updated it recently or checked to see if it had available updates?
There is not an exact match for a "prime b450" but double check your motherboard for the full name, find it at the link below, then click Support, after that you'll find the Driver and Utility page, you can search for your firmware from there.
This list is curated to show only b450 motherboards which is why I requested you double check the board name. A program such as Speccy will pull this information automatically for you.
All series｜Motherboards｜ASUS Global

Also seeing as you have a ryzen 3600, here are the chipset drivers to get that updated. After you get it all done, you should have a much faster experience.
https://www.amd.com/en/support/chips...ocket-am4/b450

http://speccy.piriform.com/results/3...M7tOk61O6j623I

I am sorry if I confused you. I thought I wrote ssd, and looking back I don't see where i posted hdd . I just learned ssd's can come in different types. I updated the firmware for it , xpg adata drive, and it didn't fix the slow boot time. I updated all the drivers I could find on the asus website under my motherboard. asus PRIME B450M-A, including the chipset drivers. It didn't help.

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dalchina said:

Hi, this could be more precise.

Do you mean...
- after a restart?
- after a cold boot?

(Is there a difference?)

To which point? e.g.
a. To lock screen
b. Until the PC is available for normal use after logging in

Have you made sure Fast Startup is off?


Please ensure these settings are as default.

How much free space do you have on C: ?

** Have you checked your disk?
Try
Hard Disk Sentinel (covers SSDs too) - excellent, full functional trial - result right on its GUI.
Green is good.

What is your WEI score? E.g. via this free tool:
Attachment 380612

Try a speed assessment with Crystal Diskmark (not Diskinfo). Free.

wei score was 8.5

I just realized i used crystal disc before i installed much and this was the result.

Megahertz said:

Did you open Device manager to see if there any yellow alerts of missing drivers?

yes, no alerts , sorry i forgot to mention that but I did check!