Why is my boot time so slow using a NVMe pcie 4.0 m.2.

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I don't have much running in the background just razer software. There is nothing in my startup folder i ran virus scans and it found nothing. I even checked in bios and fast boot is enabled. What else can i do to get faster startup times. Right now my boot time is 26.3. And i heard alot of people have 5 seconds or less.

Specs:

MB: ROG CROSSHAIR VIII HERO x570
CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 3900X
RAM: G-Skill 32GB 3200 Mhz
GPU: MSI RTX 2060 Super
OS Drive: 1TB Samsung 980 Pro PCI-e 4.0 NVMe M.2
SSD: 1TB Samsung 970 EVO Sata
HDD: 7x 2TB a combo of Seagate and WD all 7200 rpm
HDD External: 2 TB Seagate
HDD External: 4TB Seagate

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Opprinnelig skrevet av _I_:

make sure fast boot in bios is enabled, and fast boot for windows is disabled

I only got one fast boot option. I even change the boot device to be only windows manager that is on my NVMe m.2 SSD.

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Opprinnelig skrevet av For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge:

I don't have much running in the background just razer software. There is nothing in my startup folder i ran virus scans and it found nothing. I even checked in bios and fast boot is enabled. What else can i do to get faster startup times. Right now my boot time is 26.3. And i heard alot of people have 5 seconds or less.

Specs:

MB: ROG CROSSHAIR VIII HERO x570
CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 3900X
RAM: G-Skill 32GB 3200 Mhz
GPU: MSI RTX 2060 Super
OS Drive: 1TB Samsung 980 Pro PCI-e 4.0 NVMe M.2
SSD: 1TB Samsung 970 EVO Sata
HDD: 7x 2TB a combo of Seagate and WD all 7200 rpm
HDD External: 2 TB Seagate
HDD External: 4TB Seagate

Zen2 had longer boot times right out of the gate and it took BIOS updates to improve it. Make sure your BIOS is up to date.

Also, having more RAM slots populated will increase the amount of time it takes to POST. Same with having more drives and USB devices plugged in. It's an unintended cost of having a system with a lot of frills.

Opprinnelig skrevet av Set-115689:

Can try deleting temp files. press windows key and type in temp and click on delete temporary files. Might delete all passwords etc... Occasionally causes problems.

Long boot time is probably due to the number of hard drives.

I'm starting to think that is the the reason having multiple drives. Since i changed boot settings turned off the rog windows splash screen to get the generic windows one and even changed boot devices to only boot from my NVMe drive. Still over 20 seconds to boot.

[emoticorpse]

your startup folder doesn't mean much when it comes to knowing what's on your startup. use something else to determine this.

Also disconnect the externals and it should speed up.

[ugafan]

After pressing the power button, it may take up to 10 seconds before the display powers on as motherboard checks cpu, ram, and gpu. Then you've got the time when the ROG logo is on screen. Then Windows loads. Low 20s is probably normal for your setup.

[[☥] - CJ -]

Opprinnelig skrevet av emoticorpse:

your startup folder doesn't mean much when it comes to knowing what's on your startup. use something else to determine this.

Also disconnect the externals and it should speed up.

Honestly this is probably why its taking so long

All those drives having to initialize is probably why its taking so long more than anything else

[Illusion of Progress]

Opprinnelig skrevet av For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge:

From cold boot i see the rog bios screen then the rog windows loading screen. From the windows splash screen to my logon screen is around 25.47 seconds.

Sounds fine to me, honestly. I never witnessed these "press the power button and Windows is ready to go at the desktop 5 seconds later" scenarios. Since getting an SSD, the Windows load screen has always been about that short, but the total time has always been longer for me.

Edit: Just saw all your drives; yeah, that's probably it. I had less drives (1x SSD and 5x HDDs) and it usually took somewhere between 20 to 30 seconds for "Last BIOS time" (keep in mind I never monitor this number so I'm going off of the few times I did happen to see it) and now it's showing 13.6 seconds and I've since removed two of the HDDs, so I presume initializing the extra drives is part of it. Some boards let you disabled certain onboard things (like chipsets for extra SATA ports, USB, bluetooth, NICs, sound, etc.) which all adds up.

[TheRevenite]

I know I'm late to the party on this, but having just upgraded to a computer that supports PCIe 4.0 with a Samsung 980 Pro, I can tell you my boot time was about 20 seconds from power on to log in, with 15.5 seconds of Bios Time. Switching from Windows 10 Home and Windows 11 Home to Pro, added another 10-15 seconds, most likely due to the additional services. I remember back in the Windows XP days there was a program to optimize services for gaming PCs without really killing any functionality. I do know disabling services you don't need or use will lower your boot time, but once booted, I don't see any performance issues. I just wish I could have that "Clean" install boot time back!

[76561198343548661]

Wow ! It s not normal . i have WD Blue 2TB hdd and my boot time is 20s . i am pleased but you guys have faster rigs , Using Windows 10

[plat]

Your boot drive is one of the fastest consumer-grade drives available. You should be leaving my startup time of 12 sec. in the DUST. I do have BIOS Fast Boot and Windows Fast Startup both disabled.

So, you have some good suggestions to check BIOS version and possible firmware version of your 980 Pro via Magician. What you can further do is open msconfig (type into Search), go to
Services tab at the top, then check "Hide all Microsoft services" at the bottom. What's left? Can you disable any of that?

One thing that does slow my startup/shutdown/restart in Windows 11 is an extra recovery partition on my drive that stupid Windows installed after a new Insiders build. But it's doubtful if that's your issue as well. You can check if you have the three requisite partitions by typing Disk Management into Search as well.

Edit: just read about multiple drives possibly contributing. Did this slower startup become noticeable relatively recently? Can you unplug the HDD from the board and see if that's the issue or part of it?

[GOD RAYS ON ULTRA™]

According to task manager my laptop bios boot time is 0.0 seconds with an nvme gen 3 drive.

My desktop, 9.3 :( nvme gen 4

[Illusion of Progress]

I'm guessing OP has moved on from this, given the age of the thread, but to the recent few posts, as someone else who has commonly had PCs with all RAM slots and a lot of SATA slots occupied with HDDs, it's definitely playing a large factor. It's very different from a PC with a couple of RAM DIMMs and one or two SSDs only. OP had nine internal drives (seven were HDDs) and two external. I'm surprised the boot time was "only" that slow.

The actual Windows loading should still be very fast on any SSD, but the "press the power button and the PC is ready to go in single digit seconds" was never something I witnessed on any of my desktop systems. You can't compare that aspect system to system with how much variance is added by different configuration aspects. It's not like half a minute ever bothered me though. Sleep mode exists if I want nearly instant on times and I often use that too.

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Well without my 4 external hdd's connected my boot time is 21.4 seconds. But when i put them on my boot time goes up to 26 to 28 seconds. But now i know it's cause i have to much stuff booting up and i'll have to add the externals after windows bootup.

[[N]ebsun]

I used to get 3 - 4 second boot times when Windows was first installed, but now it takes forever... Is this a fresh install or an old one ? Windows gets slower over time and depending what you have installed that might be holding Windows from loading (eg: anti-virus that might be doing checks before letting windows load completely)

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No i don't have any antiviruses installed. I really only have like 15 programs installed. mostly audio/video editing software. It hasn't even been a year since i reinstalled windows.

Original Install Date: 7/29/2021, 3:08:57 AM

[[☥] - CJ -]

Not everyone is going to have the same boot time, whether its hardware specific reasons or not.


Do a benchmark with Crystal Disk Mark and see if your drive is performing the way its supposed to be for Read/Write speeds. Aside from other factors having to do with your PC that is the only way to diagnose it.