Samsung 950 M.2 PCIE SSD Slow boot time Windows 7

adnanvirani

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Hello,

I have new Dell Precision 5510 and I bought new Samsung M.2 NVMe PCIE 512 GB card.

i7
16G Ram


I install windows 7 in it. it install fine but the load time from power on to actual windows is approx 1 minute and 40 sec.

Does any one have this issue?

Thank you
 

kanewolf

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That time is all in the BIOS. There is nothing that your disk can do about that time.
 


Go into the BIOS and in the boot section disable "CSM".
Also, on the stick from with you install WIndows extract teh contents of the latest RST driver from intel
https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/25165/Intel-Rapid-Storage-Technology-Intel-RST-RAID-Driver?product=55005
file: f6flpy-x64.zip.
Most importantly, make the stick with Win 10, as that is teh only version that will support the full features of that laptop.

During the install, when it asks where to install click have disk and point it to the directory you made with Intel drivers, refresh and then proceed to install on the SDD(erase all partitions on in before)
 

adnanvirani

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I checked in bios and tried all possible ways no luck.
and when it says starting windows and then after 15 to 20 or 25 sec it starting making windows logo.

I think it tries to find the Drive but I only have that drive install.

Thank you

 

adnanvirani

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Thank you,

I was totally in to windows 7, I will try windows 10. Is there any recommendation to use GPT or MBR?

 


GPT without a doubt. After you disable CSM in BIOS, you will not even be able to boot from MBR.
In order to switch, after you load those mentioned intel drivers, hit shift+f10 then
diskpart
list disk
select disk x(x=the ssd from the list, if tehre are more that one drive)
clean
convert gpt
exit
exit

Then do a refresh and select the SSD to install to.
 

adnanvirani

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Thanks, I will try this and will update.

is there anything in Dell have to do deal with Raid 0 or ACDI and UEFI or legacy boot?


 

adnanvirani

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Thanks I will try this and will let the group know.

 

XPO

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Also have the same issue at work on brand new Latitude E5470.
The Starting Windows appear for exaclty 1min10 seconds.
Perfoming full BIOS upgrade + Windows Update updgrades + Dell Drivers upgrade
Disabling all program at start up don't solve it.
Removing anti-virus (McAfee VSE+agent) don't solve it.
Performing Safe Mode is working very quickly (no waiting).
Have no clue so far..
 

mollzrae

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Did you have any luck? I am having same issue on a latitude e5570. about 12 seconds post.
 

abyssal

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since googleing "m2 ssd windows 7 slow boot" has this post showed up on top, I will add the answer here.
In short, installing windows 7 on Samsung 950 Pro under UEFI will solve the slow boot behavior.

In windows 7, open Disk Management, your OS disk should have a 100MB partition, if the label does not show "EFI system", you are on typical MBR windows 7 installation. Or right click on your OS disk, if the menu shows "Convert to GPT disk", yeah, you are on MBR.

Prepare a UEFI Windows 7 usb stick, patch it with USB3.0 driver(for Skylake CPU), and put the samsung M2 driver in the stick. Do a clean install.
The boot time should return to normal.

Actually MBR only affects the boot time, it does not hurt the transfer speed of the disk. Does a complete reinstall worth it? It's up to you.
 
Actually, if htis is a top result, this is the proper procedure for installing 10 in UEFI mode(can be applied to 7 aswell):

Download the Media Creation Tool from here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10/ and make a bootable USB wiht it.

Get the latest drivers from here: https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/25165/Intel-Rapid-Storage-Technology-Intel-RST-RAID-Driver?product=55005
File: f6flpy-x64.zip. Unzip it to a folder on a USB drive(it can be the one with windows on it).

Disconnect all other drives except the one you are installing to.

Go into the BIOS and disable "CSM" and enable "Secure boot" in the Boot section.



Start the install and when it asks where to install hit "have disk" and point it to the folder you put the above files in.


**WARNING: THE FOLLOWING WILL WIPE AND ENTIRE DISK, NOT JUST A PARTITION**

Then hit SHIFT+F10 and:
diskpart
list disk
select disk x(where x is the drive in case)
clean
convert gpt
exit
exit

Hit refresh, select the clean drive, and the "new". Windows will create several partition and auto-select the correct one to install to(you can also set the size of the partition after hitting "new", but you don't need to if you are using the whole drive).

In the case of Samsung's NVMe SSDs, one should also install Samsung's NVMe drivers for optimal performance: http://www.samsung.com/semiconductor/minisite/ssd/download/tools.html after teh Windows install.