Windows 10: Enable or Disable Fast Boot in UEFI Firmware Settings for Windows

How to: Enable or Disable Fast Boot in UEFI Firmware Settings for Windows

How to Enable or Disable Fast Boot in UEFI Firmware Settings for Windows


Information The Fast Boot feature for UEFI motherboards has a Fast and Ultra Fast option that allows your PC to boot much faster than normal.

This tutorial will show you how to enable or disable Fast Boot in your UEFI firmware settings for Windows 8, Windows 8.1, and Windows 10.



Note The Fast Boot settings will vary per brand, model, and firmware version of your motherboard, so please also read your motherboard manual for it's specific settings on this.

The tutorial below is based on a ASRock x79 Extreme11 motherboard with the latest firmware.

Please feel free to post screenshots showing these settings for your motherboard to help others.


Fast Boot Options:

Fast

• You will not be able to boot from a USB flash drive unless you boot from the USB in Windows.

Ultra Fast

• Only supports UEFI and not Legacy BIOS.
• Your graphics card VBIOS must support UEFI GOP. If it doesn't, then check with the manufacturer to see if they may have a firmware available to flash the VBIOS with to add support.
• You will not be able to boot from a USB flash drive unless you boot from the USB in Windows.
• You will not be able to enter UEFI firmware settings at boot unless you either clear CMOS or restart to UEFI firmware settings in Windows.

Tip If you also turn on Fast Startup in Windows 10, your PC will boot even faster.




Here's How:

1. Boot to UEFI firmware settings.

2. Click on the Boot icon, and click on the Fast Boot setting. (see screenshot below)



3. Select the Disabled (normal), Fast, or Ultra Fast option you want for Fast Boot. (see screenshot below)



4. Click on the Exit icon, and click on Save Changes and Exit to apply your changes, restart the computer, and boot to Windows. (see screenshot below)




That's it,
Shawn


Related Tutorials

• How to Turn On or Off Fast Startup in Windows 8 and 8.1
• How to Turn On or Off Fast Startup in Windows 10
• How to Boot to UEFI Firmware Settings from inside Windows 8 and 8.1
• How to Boot to UEFI Firmware Settings from inside Windows 10

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[Solved] windows 10 error code 0x8007025d - 0x2000c

• 
  
  Warning
• 
  Before you get started installing Windows 10, be sure that you temporarily
  disable Secure Boot and
  
  Fast Boot in your
  UEFI firmware settings until finished. Some motherboards do not support booting from a USB flash drive with these enabled.
  
  Once installation has finished, you can enable Secure Boot and Fast Boot again if you like
  

 

Windows 10 booting from a usb device

You have to disable Secure boot and Fast boot.

https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/21756-boot-...

https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/21284-enabl...

 

Hello Jesse, *Smile

It may not have the Fast Boot feature. What's the full model number of your computer?

 

It's an Aspire Aspire XC603G Desktop.

 

I looked at screenshots showing all the usual BIOS settings for your computer, and it doesn't appear to have the Fast Boot feature available. *Sad

 

Okay. Thanks Shawn. No big deal!

 

can someone help me with how to get this

 

Hello Solotude, and welcome to Ten Forums. *Smile

What's the brand (Dell?) and model number of your computer?

If it's a home built system instead, then what's the brand and model number of your motherboard?

 

Hey, could someone help me set this thing up?

I have built my system myself, specs are:
MB: ASRock Z97 Extreme4
CPU: Intel Core i5-4690K CPU @ 3.50GHz
GPU: Asus NVidia GeForce GTX 980 Strix
OS: Windows 10 Pro

So far what I managed to achieve:
Turned on Ultra Fast Boot like said above in bios, but this doesn't seem to work at all - actually now PC hangs for a bit on startup asrock logo, and only then boots as normally.

 

Hello nomaddc, and welcome to Ten Forums. *Smile

Do you have the same settings as my ASRock in the screenshots in the tutorial?

If so, double check to see if you have them set the same to see if that helps. It sounds like you have "Full screen logo" enabled, and possibly "Setup Prompt Timeout" set for too long for the delay you are seeing.

 

Thanks! Settings now are the same, with few differences. I have only 1 boot option: Windows Boot Manager

 

Did that sort it for you?

 

Nope, still same issue

 

More of an issue is that it seems to not work at all, windows takes quite a bit to boot too.

I will be doing a fresh install in few hours, as it got way too unstable. Anythig specific I should do, or it is same default uefi install?