Heyo. I recently bought a Gigabyte G6-KF laptop for some travel I've got planned next year, and have been breaking it in and using it a fair bit lately.
However, I noticed a recent significant increase in boot times. I'm not very good at PC troubleshooting, or just PCs in general, but I'm fairly certain it's before it even boots past BIOS. I see a black screen (screen still on, mind) for an indeterminant amount of time (more than a few minutes) before I see the BIOS splash and then it boots into Windows as quickly as it used to.
I say this happened suddenly, but I do have a suspicion. I ran into an issue, that required the Group Policy Editor to fix it. This required I upgrade my version of Windows 11 Home to Pro, which I did. I did confirm that the change I made was not the cause of the issue, and when I rebooted my PC for the change to come into effect when I applied it, it was still booting at its normal speed.
I'm this close to reinstalling Windows and hoping it works, but I figured a hail mary here wouldn't hurt. Thanks for reading, double thanks if you have any ideas.
However, I noticed a recent significant increase in boot times. I'm not very good at PC troubleshooting, or just PCs in general, but I'm fairly certain it's before it even boots past BIOS. I see a black screen (screen still on, mind) for an indeterminant amount of time (more than a few minutes) before I see the BIOS splash and then it boots into Windows as quickly as it used to.
I say this happened suddenly, but I do have a suspicion. I ran into an issue, that required the Group Policy Editor to fix it. This required I upgrade my version of Windows 11 Home to Pro, which I did. I did confirm that the change I made was not the cause of the issue, and when I rebooted my PC for the change to come into effect when I applied it, it was still booting at its normal speed.
I'm this close to reinstalling Windows and hoping it works, but I figured a hail mary here wouldn't hurt. Thanks for reading, double thanks if you have any ideas.