Question ASRock X870E Nova Disk Interaction Extremely Slow on PCIe Gen5 port

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Recently built up a system around this board. AMD R9 9900X, 32GB Trident Z5 6000, PCIe Gen 5 Crucial T705 1TB SSD, several HDD's, Win11 24H2 currently.

1st, the system is slow to POST. At power on, nothing for a least 20 second, then a cursor appears upper left corner, and another 15 seconds, then the ASRock logo appears, Then another 23 seconds and the win11 loading circle appears. Then nearly 3 minutes before win login appears. Then about 10 seconds to the desktop. Once in win11, File manager has to reload the drive info each time it is opened. This take about 50 seconds. Changes to files does not update unless I press F5.

Disk Manager takes about 4 minutes to load. Refreshes take about as long when I hot swap a drive ( I want to be able to use this function a lot, as I wipe a lot of drives in my hobby). All this before and after I updated to the latest BIOS. At least from the BIOS I loaded about 3 weeks ago. Also web pages feel/load slower in this setup compared to the old rig this one was to retire.

This is a fresh install of win11 to a local only account, with little, to no bloatware. Both radios are turned off.
I've installed Win 11 twice and get the same results.

What am I doing wrong? If you need more info, I am more than willing to find and post here. I can do experiments to help diagnose my difficulties.

Thanks
 
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Recently built up a system around this board. AMD R9 9900X, 32GB Trident Z5 6000, PCIe Gen 5 Crucial T705 1TB SSD, several HDD's, Win11 24H2 currently.
When posting a thread of troubleshooting nature, it's customary to include your full system's specs. Please list the specs to your build like so:
CPU:
CPU cooler:
Motherboard:
Ram:
SSD/HDD:
GPU:
PSU:
Chassis:
OS:
Monitor:
include the age of the PSU apart from it's make and model. BIOS version for your motherboard at this moment of time.

There are reports that a particular BIOS version is wreaking havoc among ASRock motherboards and you might be a victim of it.

I've installed Win 11 twice and get the same results.
Where did you source the installer for the OS? You're advised to disconnect all drives from the system except for the one you wish to install the OS onto. You're also advised to install the OS in offline mode, manually installing all necessary drivers with the latest version in an elevated command.
 
Thank you for the reply. Forum etiquette noted.

CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 9900X Granit Ridge 4nm
CPU cooler: Phanom Spirit 120
Motherboard ASRock X870E Nova Wifi
Ram: 32GB Trident Z5 6000,
SSD/HDD:PCIe Gen 5 Crucial T705 1TB SSD
GPU: ASUS 406ti OC 16Gb
PSU: Corsair SF1000
Chassis: NZXT
OS:Win11 24H2 currently
Monitor: Samsung LU28E

BIOS 3.16 - AMD AGESA ComboAMSPI 1.2.0.2

Win 11 install files from MS's website. Drivers installed from ASRock/nvindia websites from USB drive before first connect to internet. Then MS update until no more available. Next uninstall as much windows junk as possible. Next connect additioanl HDD's. Then browsers and apps. Reboots after each major install. This is my usual procedure.
I downloaded and installed CPU-Z to got the BIOS umber for this post and from file open to program running took 3 miutes 18 seconds.
 
NO response from anyone?
I did several reinstalls of win11.
It takes a long time, say about 4 minutes, to get to the drive partition screen. This board takes a long time to POST. Oh, I first loaded MB defaults. and updated the BIOS to 3.2
At the partition screen, it will not make, delete or format a partition.
I have moved the Crucial T705 1TB SSD to different ports on the MB. I get the same behavior. I tried a cheap gen 3 Lite-On 256Gb SSD in different slots. Again same behavior.
I had to prepare the SSDs on a different computer.
I was able to get win11 installed. I made a different new boot install media USB drive. Win11 seems sluggish. File Explorer still has the 'Working On It...." msg each time it is opened. This takes about 30-45 seconds with just the one SSD in the system.
The only thing left is the RAM
I have 32GB Trident Z5 6000 F5-6000J3038F16GX2-TZ5NR.
I went to the MB support/memory page. and my ram exact model is NOT listed. But there are models that are very close to this. Could this be the issue?