Question Asus Strix Z690-A long boot times ?

[rwh531]

So I posted a week or so ago about how my boot times doubled with a samsung evo 860 after upgrading from asus p8z68-v pro/gen3 to the z690. Went from 40 seconds to 1:40
Well I just installed a wd black sn850 2tb and still getting the 1:40+ boot times even after several clean Windows installs with both ahci and the Intel rapid raid drivers (without doing a raid setup).

Anyone got any idea as to the cause ? I tried the default motherboard settings as well as custom ones so what am I missing since others are able to boot in 10 seconds or less ?

Oh yeah, I am getting the boot times from the "IObit Advanced SystemCare Pro" app.

 

[dwd999]

So I posted a week or so ago about how my boot times doubled with a samsung evo 860 after upgrading from asus p8z68-v pro/gen3 to the z690. Went from 40 seconds to 1:40
Well I just installed a wd black sn850 2tb and still getting the 1:40+ boot times even after several clean Windows installs with both ahci and the Intel rapid raid drivers (without doing a raid setup).

Anyone got any idea as to the cause ? I tried the default motherboard settings as well as custom ones so what am I missing since others are able to boot in 10 seconds or less ?

Oh yeah, I am getting the boot times from the "IObit Advanced SystemCare Pro" app.

Obvious question; why the app on a brand new motherboard? Did you try motherboard default settings, fresh windows install and NO app?

 

[rwh531]

Well other than the fact it's the only program i've ever seen that notifies me of how long the process of windows booting up takes it only makes sense that I do the test under a normal startup procedure that includes all the bootable optimizers/firewalls/driver/software updaters and even armorycrate. that said with everything other than avg itself disabled I am still looking at a 45 second timeframe between the windows loading screen and the Avg boot notification while taskmanger shows minimal activity on cpu/gpu/drive long before my desktop icons are fully loaded kind of feels like windows is trying to fill a schoolbus but has to deal with a special needs kid halfway through the loading process

Oh yeah guess i should mention that according to the taskmanager it takes the bios 25 seconds to boot before windows even starts to load however i am going to time it with a stopwatch because it feels like it takes less than 12

 

[Phillip Corcoran]

On some systems, AVG itself can increase boot time considerably, or at least it did when I was sorting out a friend's PC a few years ago.
I uninstalled AVG completely and the PC booted in to Windows much faster.

You may want to give that a try and see if it fixes the issue. If it does and you're running Windows 10, you don't really need a third-party antivirus as Windows Defender is now very effective. That's all I've been using since switching to Windows 10 and I've never had cause to regret it.

 

[rwh531]

Will give it a try can you suggest another program that calculates windows load time or does the one in task manager for bios actually calculate the bios and windows together