Asus Z170 Pro Gaming M.2 bios startup speed

[kmanic]

I just installed a samsung 970 pro 512gb ssd. After a painstaking process of finally getting it to work and boot properly, I have a working copy of windows 10 that boots. Unfortunately, when I turn on the power, the bios posts, waits 3 seconds (as I have set it), then a black screen, another ASUS logo (as if it is the bios post) and an additional 15 or so seconds with a spinning dotted wheel in the middle. After this windows starts up seamlessly. I am wondering what I should do to prevent this 15 seconds. Before this I had a regular SATA SSD and it started up much faster.

Settings wise, I have the M.2 drive set to be read as M.2 (and not SATA as I have another hard drive in the SATA1 slot).

Any help would be much appreciated.

 

[Peter Martin]

if your drive is giving you the performance you need and supposed to in windows, I would probably leave well enough alone. If fast boot is not enabled, you won't boot as fast for sure.

 

[kmanic]

if your drive is giving you the performance you need and supposed to in windows, I would probably leave well enough alone. If fast boot is not enabled, you won't boot as fast for sure.

Is the fast boot you are talking about the quick start windows setting? Or just disabling the diagnostics that happen during startup?