50+ Second boot time with 256GB SSD

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Hi,

I recently installed my PC with windows 8.1 from windows 7 professional. I had noticed my boot times weren't great before hand but when I looked on-line at people with pretty much the same spec having boot times sub 20 seconds I was pretty shocked at how slow mine was.

SPEC
i7 950 @ 3.07ghz
Gigabyte X58A-UD3R mobo
Samsung 830 256GB SSD ( with windows )
2 x 1TB Samsung HDDs
GTX 470 GPU
6GB RAM (3 x 2gb)

My boot speed from the point when I press my power button to the point where I reach the windows login page is between 50-60 seconds. After looking on-line I am positive there is something I can do to improve these speeds. Just to mention, a good majority of this boot time( say 30-35 seconds is spent before even reaching any windows splash screen at all. I've also noticed it hangs on my motherboard splash screen for about 8 seconds....

If you have any advice then I would be very greatful.

Thanks in advance
 
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http://www.askvg.com/how-to-change-sata-hard-disk-mode-from-ide-to-ahci-raid-in-bios-after-installing-windows/

That page should let you change to AHCI without reinstalling
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How do you have your SSD setup in your BIOS? AHCI ? Do you have that setup as your first boot device? Are you using at least a SATA II cable?.

You should be able to turn off the splash screen and see where it is hanging at. Perhaps you still have it checking for a network boot option or something?

Sub 20 seconds should be easily achieved.
 
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Okay, so I've removed the Mobo splash screen, put my SSD to top of boot priority ( it was at the bottom for some reason), and enabled a 'Quick Boot' settinng my BIOS. I have it at about 40 seconds...

I'm unsure how to check if im using a SATA II cable, and also could not see any mention of AHCI with regards to the ssd.
 
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Generally if your SATA cables have latches, they are most likely II or III cables. However that's not always true.

AHCI might be listed somewhere near SATA mode or something, perhaps it's currently on RAID, or Compatible, etc.

I briefly looked at Gigabyte's website, and it looks like your motherboard has both SATA II and III ports. II should offer more than enough bandwidth, but still I would plug the SSD into a III port.

Have you tried any benchmarking of the drive in Windows?
 
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jimbolad

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Hi, thanks for the reply again...

I will check the BIOS again tonight for AHCI mode, but I'm sure this would be set if its default...

And yes it looks as if I'm using a Sata II cable so could this be a problem...

Lastly I haven't carried out any benchmarking of the drive.. can you recommend some software I would need to do so... And ill post up my results.

Thanks again
 
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jimbolad

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Okay im getting somewhere,

found this thread below that explained how to set my drives to AHCI.
http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/310250-30-gigabyte-x58a-ud3r-bios-settings-achieve-ahci-mode

After doing so, my boot gets to the windwos splash screen and starts to 'Diagnose your pc' before reaching the windows trouble shoot page where you can reset or refresh your pc because windows couldn't start properly.

Have attempted system startup repair, with no success...

any ideas, now I truly am baffled
 
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http://www.askvg.com/how-to-change-sata-hard-disk-mode-from-ide-to-ahci-raid-in-bios-after-installing-windows/

That page should let you change to AHCI without reinstalling
 
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jimbolad

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I managed to do this using the link below... Got it down to about 35 seconds, but still feel that I can imrpove this !!!



Thankyou, I used the alternative method to boot using safe mode and then disable safe mode and reboot once more.

 
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