Windows 10: Boot not that fast

Just to report:
- I manage to make a GOP vbios using a tool from win-raid site and it's working !
- However boot time continued a bit slow, far lower compared to my cheaper laptop
- Then I discovered my 2 hdds have an impact: an old velociraptor from 2009 slow down the boot by 2 sec, a seagate 4TB from 2014 slows the boot by 6.5 secs !!
- That's it, I don't know what more I can do.

 

I'm getting ready to put together my new system tonight and in preparation I pulled a couple hard drives from my old system to get it ready to transfer from my father-in-law. I noticed faster boot times after I pulled the two hard drives. I'm going to want 3 hard drives in my new system in addition to my SSD - new system have all SATA III controllers (but only 1 hard drive and the SSD are SATA III) so I hope the two older hard drives don't slow things down too much.

 

Does this post really belong here and how does it relate to the OPs problem.

 

It looks like the BIOS needs that amount of time to check out the devices. It is a bit long though.

 

Actually, it's windows 10 which is slower when the 2 hdds are connected. Bios boot does not seems to be slower.

 

Start the system in BIOS and Load defaults settings.
Disable Network PXE boot, Change SSD as first boot priority. Enable the fastboot if disabled .
This will solve your problem. Good luck!

 

Nope ...
Not that simple in my case, all the settings are as they should be ...

 

Another strange thing is that my reboot is faster than a cold start.
From what I understandood fastboot does not work for restart... so ... wtf ?
The difference is about 5s. It's close to the impact time of my 4TB seagate ...

 

Just find out the culprit: Raxco PerfectDisk
It's the main culprit but AHCI driver does have an impact too: for me the best one is the standard one from microsoft. Using intel ahci driver (official version from MSI or intel site) slows down sequencial read and I loose about 3-4s at boot.


Just find out the culprit: Raxco PerfectDisk
It's the main culprit but AHCI driver does have an impact too: for me the best one is the standard one from microsoft. Using intel ahci driver (official version from MSI or intel site) slows down sequencial read and I loose about 3-4s at boot.
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