High boot time with SSD during bios startup on gigabyte h170M - D3H

g1abhi

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I have a samsung 850 sata SSD 256Gb for OS boot drive. It used to have boot times of around 5-7 seconds. Then i attached a 2 TB seagate hard disk. and everything remained same for some time. I installed gigabyte apps , and enabled fast boot. I also installed a dvd drive. after some days I noticed that it is taking over 10 seconds while in bios boot state and blinking an underscore scanning for drives and then boots up. I have set only the SSD in boot drive priority.

It all happened months ago so , i am in a haze that when exactly did the problem start. What is the ideal boot time for my system, even 5 -7 seconds sounds too long to me considering a win 8 laptop of mine boots up in 8-10 sec with mechanical drive.
I am using windows 10 . but i think it is irrelevant since post bios , the startup is around 4 secs.
 
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The boot needs to completely load. All your startup items need to get read, and much of this happens after you get Windows.

Just a reminder that the boot timer I have does not work in Windows 10 mode, but does just fine running it in compatibility mode.

socklosk

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How are you measuring boot time? I have a Samsung 840 Pro SSD and it usually takes me 25-30 seconds to boot, but I'm loading a lot of of stuff. There is a software called "Boot Timer" that will test this for you.
 

socklosk

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The boot needs to completely load. All your startup items need to get read, and much of this happens after you get Windows.

Just a reminder that the boot timer I have does not work in Windows 10 mode, but does just fine running it in compatibility mode.
 
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