SSD Boots Slow Randomly

[MasterDell]

Hi! I have had this issue before and on a different install of OS. I have had to reinstall windows before because of different reasons and they also had this issue. After I reinstalled in this time, my boot times were really fast (15-20 Seconds). Now they aren't.. Now they are going for like 45-50 seconds.

This happened all of the sudden too. Literally 12 hours ago it booted like a racehorse then right now I went to shutdown my computer because firefox was acting up and not letting me type anything anywhere. The rest of the computer would allow me to do so.

I am 99% sure TRIM isn't disabled. Fast boot is enabled, and my first boot setting is my SSD. Like I said.. It was just fine this morning. I downloaded Borderlands 2 and a game save editor today.

The SSD is not even 40% full. SSD is a 120gb m500 and I am running 8.1.

Any help is appreciated! Thank you

 

[YourLocal]

The M500 is a little old and 120GB one is the weakest one. I don't want to say it's normal but somethings going on. Does your computer randomly freeze up? If so then your C Drive could be dying.

 

[Mattios]

Hey MasterDell,

That sounds very strange. The only thing I could suggest is checking it's SMART values using something like Speccy to see if something is amiss there.

Also perhaps virus scan to ensure there is nothing holding your OS up from booting.

Also try sfc /scannow and chkdsk C:

Hope your problem gets solved!

 

[MasterDell]

Thanks guys. I don't think that it's because it is an old drive. It shouldn't just stop booting fast. That is way too odd. I am running a full kaspersky scan right now. Ill do your suggestions right now Mattios! Thanks again ill get back in a few.

 

[MasterDell]

Hey MasterDell,

That sounds very strange. The only thing I could suggest is checking it's SMART values using something like Speccy to see if something is amiss there.

Also perhaps virus scan to ensure there is nothing holding your OS up from booting.

Also try sfc /scannow and chkdsk C:

Hope your problem gets solved!

Okay under my storage it says:

"Status Good
Temperature 30 °C
Temperature Range OK (less than 50 °C)"
And it says "Good" as a status for everything.
Virus scan found no threats.

Will try the others in a sec.

*EDIT* Ran CHKDSK and it did not help. About to run sfc.

 

[MasterDell]

Okay I tried all of that and nothing helped.. Idk if it helps but it seems to be going slower on the BIOS and not windows.

 

[MasterDell]

I am actually so confused now.. So I went to do a bios update and my SSD no longer exists as a boot option. So I can't boot at all right now

 

[YourLocal]

I am actually so confused now.. So I went to do a bios update and my SSD no longer exists as a boot option. So I can't boot at all right now

Switch SATA Ports to one of the Intel based ones.

 

[MasterDell]

Now it's starting to piss me off. I unuodated the bios to the one I had before and it still doesn't show in the boot options.. But it shows it in the flash utility. So it's not like the bios doesn't know its there. It's just failing to show it in the boot options. I have switch the sata port to the first one and still nothing..

 

[YourLocal]

So chkdsk found nothing? If you run sfc and it doesn't finish then it's your M500. It's failing.

 

[MasterDell]

When I ran sfc it said everything was all good. Chkdsk also found nothing.

 

[MasterDell]

I got it!!

In advance bios, boot menu disable all boot options then click hard drive bbs priorities, then boot option 1 YOUR SSD SHOULD BE THERE. Click back then click boot option 1 and Your ssd sud be there

okay so this kind of helped! But I think the problem was that the bios needed a smack in the face in order for it to boot fast again. So I did that by updating the bios.. But I had the issue with the ssd not showing up. I disconnected everything. Like everything. Keyboards, wifi adapter, Mouse. I also disconnected all sata ports and then I disabled all of the boot options and turned it off. Once that was done I plugged everything and BAM. Started the bios and the ssd was there. Checked to see if it booted fast and it did. Thanks so much for your guys' help!🙂