Windows 7 "Starting Windows" Logo Boot Time

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Hello all and thanks for assistance ahead of time.

I have recently been working on a little something, decreasing OS boot time, (sort of obvious by the title) step that takes the longest is the "Starting Windows" logo. My total time from Power Button to Desktop is 30 sec.

Now, before I get a bunch of copy n paste steps or links to another page of similar topic, I will mention below, majority of the things I have already done as well as my build.

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MOBO: ASUS M5A99FX PRO R2.0 (all drivers & bios updated)

CPU: FX-6350 (factory clocked @3.9ghz and msconfig to boot on all 6 cores)

RAM: CORSAIR CMZ8GX3M2A1866C9 (factory clocked 1866mhz)

SSD: SAMSUNG 840PRO (plugged into sata3 (gray port) w/ drivers & software up-to-date)

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LINKS I'VE ALREADY LOOKED AT:

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There were a few more of course, but these pretty much sum up what everyone else is saying. Would like to avoid people wasting time and repeating these steps.
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Now, there are a couple extra variables that may be factoring into this equation.

1. There is an old HDD with Win 7 Pro installed. msconfig is already calibrated and set to the OS on the SSD (Home Premium). Also, I already have startup/services lists optimized.

2. On the "Boot" tab in msconfig, it does state (recovered) next to the OS version. This is a result from tinkering with msconfig but I will also mention, when I do fix it and it does NOT state (recovered), the time of boot stays the same and seems to have no influence on boot time.

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Again, thank you for your time and I greatly appreciate your assistance. Please, have a wonderful day.
 
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I am going to unplug all SATA's excluding the SSD and see what happens. I doubt it will change anything but is worth a try at this point. Something so small can become rather frustrating when you cannot diagnose it.

I would also like to add before I go offline, that I have also tried setting the mobo on "Performance" mode which had no influence either.

Anyway, hope someone can shine some light on this. And well, if anyone is going to say 30 seconds from Power Button to Desktop is a suitable time for this hardware (and software since win 7 does have a slower boot than win 8), well, I guess I'll settle for it. lol. Thanks again everyone who has or will be looking and investing time into this thread.
 
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UPDATE: Unplugging SATA's excluding SSD had no influence. Was kind of a last resort kind of thing. Going to be logging off for a bit to take care of some household chores. If anyone comes up with some good ideas, please post. Thx.
 
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Hmm, I must admit, I am a bit puzzled at this point. This is my first thread as a member of these forums and I honestly was lead to believe I would at least have a bit more than 1 person chiming in on this by now. I do not know if people think this post is an attempt to troll or what? I assure you, my posting here is genuine. I am simply aiming to trim about 10 seconds off of my boot sequence and believe that (should be) achievable with the hardware I am currently running (especially my SSD). I am completely out of ideas at this point and am simply waiting for somebody to just ask the qualifying questions to check my bases or inform me of something new I could try. Anyhow, I am hoping the turn around time on this thread is due to people's availability and not avoidance. Again, I would like to thank those who will be investing their time and efforts into this ahead of time.
 
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You see most people look through the forums to help people with something they know about or have a good guess at how to help. Although I do think more people should have helped you then just me epecially since this is a well written post, but you should exepct this.
 
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I completely know and understand exactly what you are saying. That this is JUST a forum. But, I guess you could say I personally had higher expectations. The main reason for that is because this is honestly where I find most of my answers. When I "Google" a question, and I see toms on the results, I usually look there first because it has proven to be a reliable source of information for me in the past. But this time around, I am unable to solve nor research the answer to my question/goal, tis be the reason why I created an account and posted a thread. But again, this is JUST a forum and I shouldn't of gotten my hopes up.

Also, I already know of the specs. for most of the OS's out there. I actually work IT for a living, and that's actually mostly the reason why this is bothering me so much, is because, I should of found my answer by now. Windows 8 is actually not a horrible OS and I'm one of the very few people to state that solely because I have an exceptional amount of experience with it and other OS's alike. But for this machine, I am currently going to stick with Win 7 and work towards researching and experimenting methods to help reach my goal.

To be honest, I think I may have already found my answer, but was hoping someone may be able to confirm it. I think the current boot time I have (30 Seconds from power button to desktop) isn't a bad time considering I am keeping my hardware (CPU & RAM) @factory clocked speeds. I had experimented yesterday and performed a bit of overclocking which had trimmed a few seconds, but I am not a person who is always trying to push my hardware to its limits (mainly because overclocking does stress your hardware and shortens the total lifespan).

The reason I had set out on this mini-mission, was because of the videos you can find on youtube, where people will boot any OS, (but in this case, specifically Win 7) in 20 and sometimes less than 20 seconds. You will literally see the "Starting Windows" Logo flash on the screen, and then *POOF*. And all they say in the comments is, blah blah power of the SSD blah blah. Well, Samsung 840/850 Pro's Read/Write's are some of the fastest out there, if it's JUST THE SSD, then mine should be doing it too.. well, it's not.. lol. It's literally on the "Starting Windows" Logo for about 12-15 seconds.

Now, I do know and can tell you and anyone else who is reading this, that AMD CPU's are not the fastest out there. I am no fanboy, but I prefer AMD to Intel because of the value, because I like to save $$$. But you match up my FX6350 vs I5/I7 4/5xxx @factoryclocking, it will get spanked. Believe me, I've been there and done it. I literally go to meets and perform benchmarks and stress tests with my geek friends just for fun. Is my pride hurt? Nope, not one little bit. You know why? Because I know that I spend about $250 USD for my CPU + MOBO while they pay about $400-$500 just for their CPU alone. lol. My build can run any game on ultra while multi-tasking any number of things and not hiccup once, and that's what makes me happy because that is EXACTLY what I built this machine for. 3 of the people I actually work with as well as play "this is how fast my pc is", have those Ultra-Fast Overclocked Intel builds w/ water cooling and lights to make it go faster (huehuehue), spent literally 3 times as much I paid to build mine, and they don't even use them to their full potential. *facepalm*

The reason why I am mentioning all of this, is because these are usually the people who post these youtube videos. Most everybody who builds PC's will use an Intel processor & board because "it's what everyone else does" and those are naturally going to crunch numbers faster than an AMD build. Slap an SSD and some $400 USD RAM on top of it, and it will make that boot logo *POOF* lol.

To sum it all up, I guess I'm not really too bummed that my build won't *POOF* too, I was just hoping someone would see my post and write, "oh, you just flip this switch, adjust these numbers, push that button, and... viola!"

Welp, I need to catch my breath. I'd still like to keep this thread open for the potential candidates that may like to add on. Thanks for reading and writing Gamingspecialist. ^-^
 
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Gamingspecialist

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Well thank you for taking the time to write that. I completely understand your viewpoint on AMD vs. Intel thing and I agree fully. I've been researching for months now on which to choose for my desired gaming PC and learned alot about both, but personally I prefer AMD because of it's many cores, clock speed, and value. Although I did end up choosing Intel because many games now do not use more than four cores, and Intel definently beats AMD in power per core. Also I would not be suprised id AMD ends up taking over because games are starting to use more cores. Even consoles are using AMD lol.
 
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