When I say it takes 40 seconds to boot, I dont count any of the POST, once I see windows beginning to load, thats when I start the count, my bios takes probably 15 seconds itself. If you go on youtube and look at many people showing the speed of their SSD, the moment the windows logo is done playing, the desktop starts.
Well I looked in my registry and my AHCI driver start value is set to 0 meaning my ahci driver is installed, so I'd get a BSOD if I were in IDE mode I believe.
I've used AS SSD and my results are on par with this benchmark: http://www.thinkcomputers.org/ocz-agility-2-60gb-solid-state-drive-review/6/
(My Results:
Here and
Here)
How exactly can I check if my drivers are up to date I thought windows monitored this on it's own. Ive been to the asus website but I cant find all my drivers in device manager since once they get drivers they are renamed and hiding in one of the categories.
Also, I read somewhere you can check your boot log, and I looked in mine and had a bunch of errors and a few critical errors.
Looks like this is turning into a windows problem rather than an SSD issue.
I read that you should try using the command prompt and try using sfc /scannow command, I tried it and it found some errors and told me to restart and they would be fixed. It also said there were some it could not fix, and there is a log, here is the log:
http://www.robinhoodsplayground.com/haggardsmurf/CBS.txt
Also, I downloaded and installed driver detective upon the suggestion of another website so I'll try it and see if it can find any updated drivers.