Good morning all,
Recently I noticed that my WIN7 x64 boot speeds slowed dramatically. We're talking about <1min from power button to login screen, to taking anywhere from 3-8 minutes. This is my SSD. As you can see, it's guaranteed for >500MB/sec R/W sequential. (see image below). This much I know:
1. This has been happening since about the middle of March, and frankly, it's been irritating the ____ out of me.
2. Around the middle of March, I installed a 4TB HD. I can't say for certain whether it was installed before or after I noticed the slowdown.
3. I've checked and double checked to make sure that I have AHCI turned on, that I'm using SATA III, that ACPI is enabled, all of the things that I'm aware have to be turned on to fully utilize an SSD.
4. I turned off Write Cachine in Device Manager, because I also noticed according to benchmarking software, that my R/W speeds are somewhat... pitiful, and came across that solution. While true that it did increase my speeds somewhat, they are nowhere near where they were when I first installed the SSD last Summer.
These are my speeds with write caching turned off, taken this morning.
5. I have not tried changing SATA ports on my motherboard, but for some reason I don't believe that's the problem. Mostly because for sequential reads, it's satisfactorily high, so I can't see a SATA port malfunction being the case. (Probably naive of me.)
Finally, most importantly,
6. Around the same time I noticed slow down, I discovered one of my "friends" had tweaked with the settings in my BIOS and wildly underclocked my CPU as well as some other, (what I thought) less important things. The problem is that I couldn't remember then and can't remember now what the non-voltage and -frequency related settings were. So he could've very well changed some obscure BIOS setting and literally KILLED my performance.
Any help will be gladly appreciated, and sorry for wall of text.
Recently I noticed that my WIN7 x64 boot speeds slowed dramatically. We're talking about <1min from power button to login screen, to taking anywhere from 3-8 minutes. This is my SSD. As you can see, it's guaranteed for >500MB/sec R/W sequential. (see image below). This much I know:
1. This has been happening since about the middle of March, and frankly, it's been irritating the ____ out of me.
2. Around the middle of March, I installed a 4TB HD. I can't say for certain whether it was installed before or after I noticed the slowdown.
3. I've checked and double checked to make sure that I have AHCI turned on, that I'm using SATA III, that ACPI is enabled, all of the things that I'm aware have to be turned on to fully utilize an SSD.
4. I turned off Write Cachine in Device Manager, because I also noticed according to benchmarking software, that my R/W speeds are somewhat... pitiful, and came across that solution. While true that it did increase my speeds somewhat, they are nowhere near where they were when I first installed the SSD last Summer.
These are my speeds with write caching turned off, taken this morning.
5. I have not tried changing SATA ports on my motherboard, but for some reason I don't believe that's the problem. Mostly because for sequential reads, it's satisfactorily high, so I can't see a SATA port malfunction being the case. (Probably naive of me.)
Finally, most importantly,
6. Around the same time I noticed slow down, I discovered one of my "friends" had tweaked with the settings in my BIOS and wildly underclocked my CPU as well as some other, (what I thought) less important things. The problem is that I couldn't remember then and can't remember now what the non-voltage and -frequency related settings were. So he could've very well changed some obscure BIOS setting and literally KILLED my performance.
Any help will be gladly appreciated, and sorry for wall of text.
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