How to fix slow boot time caused by PCIe

Nikos P

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Hi everyone,

I am trying to speed up the boot time of my PC and I realized that the initialization of the PCIe card takes about 35 seconds, out of the total (more or less...) 50 seconds boot time for the entire system.

The PC has a mobo with 2 SATAIII ports where I have plugged the boot disk, a Samsung SSD 850 Pro with Windows 7 -64 bit on it and one 1TB WD HDD for data such as videos, music and pictures. With only those two drives connected, the boot time is about 15-20 seconds, which I think is great, comparing to my old build of 6 minutes!

Then, there is an extra PCIe controller on the mobo, which I bought later, where I plug only the CD Drive and another red SataIII cable, going to the front side of the build and it is never get used, cause I guess this is for some external HDD, which for the moment I don't have.

They are all working fine, the SSD, the HDD and CD Drive, no problems at all, except the extended boot time issue, if we can regard it as an issue...

My question: Is there any way to DELAY the start of the PCIe controller, to get it start later, let's say 3-5 minutes after the OS boot, so that the actual boot takes only 15-20 seconds?

I don't really need the CD-Drive on start up, so I thought that maybe I could set the PC to start the PCIe Controller with some delay or, even better, just when I need the CD Drive.

The system:

Mobo: MSI H67-E33

On Mobo's Sata III slots:
Boot drive: SSD Samsung 850 Pro 256 GB (Windows 7 - 64 bit)
Data HDD: WD 1TB Sata III Drive

On Mobo's PCIe slot:
Sata III controller: Digitus PCI EX SATA3 2P+IDE 1P RAID with Marvell Chipset

Thanks in advance for any input!

Good day
 
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Thank you very much for your respond.

Well, I tried that in the past, but there is a problem that I can not fix. My mobo has 2 SataIII and 4 SataII ports, but only the SataIII are working, the SataII are "dead" since they left the factory.

Tried many times to contact MSI for replacement, no answer.

http://www.kitguru.net/components/motherboard/carl/msi-next-in-line-with-official-statement-regarding-intel-chipset-issues/

They simply don't respond, that is why I bought a PCIe card.

Thanks anyway

I doubt that you can do that. However, I have a suggestion. Why not put the CD drive and external drive on the motherboard's SATA II ports? A DVD drive will never saturate SATA II, and an external hard drive won't, either. Even if an HDD has an SATA III controller, it won't be bottlnecked by connecting it to an SATA II port.

Would that be an acceptable solution for you?
 
Thank you very much for your respond.

Well, I tried that in the past, but there is a problem that I can not fix. My mobo has 2 SataIII and 4 SataII ports, but only the SataIII are working, the SataII are "dead" since they left the factory.

Tried many times to contact MSI for replacement, no answer.

http://www.kitguru.net/components/motherboard/carl/msi-next-in-line-with-official-statement-regarding-intel-chipset-issues/

They simply don't respond, that is why I bought a PCIe card.

Thanks anyway

 
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