Question Slow startup times with SSD

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neatewrerw

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I have a new crucial mx500 SSD and it takes a long time to boot. Not insanely long times, but 20+ seconds on the BIOS splash screen plus like 6+ on the windows login screen. My older laptop with old SSD boots in less than half the time, so it's WAY too slow for an SSD.



I tried disabling all unnecessary startup items, also tried doing minimal safe boot and it still took as long to boot. I have the latest SSD firmware installed and updated.

Of note I have an HDD in my system, but all the install files are on the SSD (I disconnected HDD when I fresh installed windows 10 onto the new SSD). What else can I do? I would rather leave things like BIOS/reinstalling windows as a last resort as they are a pain.

Thank you.
 
neatewrerw said:
I have a new crucial mx500 SSD and it takes a long time to boot. Not insanely long times, but 20+ seconds on the BIOS splash screen plus like 6+ on the windows login screen. My older laptop with old SSD boots in less than half the time, so it's WAY too slow for an SSD.



I tried disabling all unnecessary startup items, also tried doing minimal safe boot and it still took as long to boot. I have the latest SSD firmware installed and updated.

Of note I have an HDD in my system, but all the install files are on the SSD (I disconnected HDD when I fresh installed windows 10 onto the new SSD). What else can I do? I would rather leave things like BIOS/reinstalling windows as a last resort as they are a pain.

Thank you.
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Task manager/perf/startup.
What does the bios time show?
 
What motherboard? And which sata port is it plugged in to? Besides the other hdd, what else is connected to motherboard and also rear/front of case?

Majority of the time spent is during post, so it's motherboard related, process of detecting boot order, peripherals etc. After that it's Window's turn and 6seconds is quite good.
 
boju said:
What motherboard? And which sata port is it plugged in to? Besides the other hdd, what else is connected to motherboard and also rear/front of case?

Majority of the time spent is during post, so it's motherboard related, process of detecting boot order, peripherals etc. After that it's Window's turn and 6seconds is quite good.
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Gigabyte GA-H170-GAMING 3 ATX LGA1151 Motherboard. I believe it's: HDD to Sata3 (position 5) and SSD to another SAta3 in position 2. It doesn't matter which ports the satas are plugged into, no?
 
neatewrerw said:
It doesn't matter which ports the satas are plugged into, no?
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Shouldn't, but in terms of bios detecting boot device if OS drive was connected to first Sata port labelled 0 might improve detection time, probably small difference though. Won't need to reinstall Windows so no loss giving it a go. Try connect your secondary drive to Sata 1 as well.
 
Have you got Gigabyte App Centre, or any other Gigabyte software installed? If so try removing it. It's not unknown for App Centre to cause slow boot times. Generally speaking, any motherboard-manufacturer 'helpful' software is more hassle than it's worth.
 
boju said:
Shouldn't, but in terms of bios detecting boot device if OS drive was connected to first Sata port labelled 0 might improve detection time, probably small difference though. Won't need to reinstall Windows so no loss giving it a go. Try connect your secondary drive to Sata 1 as well.
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I tried this, no effect.

I don't have any kind of gigabyte installed either.
 
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