Windows 10: Laptop takes 90+ seconds to boot

Hello,

I own a 2 year old Alienware m16 laptop which for a couple of months now has taken anywhere from 80 to 100 seconds to boot. The laptop has a 512GB NVMe SSD, 16GB of RAM and a Core i7-8750H processor.

Here are the different things I've tried:

● I've run multiple diagnostics, both built-in (Alienware diagnostics) and non built-in, all of which said that there were no problems.

● I performed a hard reset, erasing everything off of it.

● Updated and double checked as many things as I could think of (Windows is up to date, drivers are up to date, etc...).

● Disabling applications that use lots of resources during startup.

● Disabling/Enabling fast startup.

Nothing I've tried seems to do anything whatsoever. I'm starting to think that it might be some overlooked hardware problem, perhaps something to do with the SSD, but I'm not entirely sure. I've performed a boot trace, but I'm not sure what it's telling me, so if you'd be willing to look it over for me I'll shoot you a PM with a link to the ETL file.

Thanks!

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laptop doesnt boot automatically

This is what happened.

1. Did a repair install and later disabled hibertnate in CMD.
2. Enabled legacy option ROM in BIOS.
3. After a few times startup ( i used the system in such mode for 5 days), changed boot option back to default.
4. Vola!! It boots automatically to win10 without any keypress. Tested it with many starts to confirm the same.
5. Re-enabled hibernate option using CMD and later selected Fast Startup.
6. System booted normally, without the need for any keypress.

I do not know exactly whether such steps resolved the problem or what else happened, hence cannot suggest above steps.

Many thanks to all members who helped to troubleshoot problems.

 

SSD Boot Time 90+ Seconds

You could take a boot trace and see what it shows: Here is some info I've collected on doing this:

Good info here: How to collect a good boot trace on Windows 10 or Windows Server 2016 using WPRUI

See here for some hints on how to use the data: Analyzing a Slow Boot with Windows Performance Recorder & Analyzer

... and here: Windows Performance Analyzer step-by-step guide

 

SSD Boot Time 90+ Seconds

I have a Samsung 830 SSD that I've been using for a couple of years. When I first used it, I had cold boot times of ~20 seconds. I've since upgraded parts around, but kept the same SSD. But after a couple months in my latest upgrade, I notice longer boot times.

I have the ASUS Strix B350-F motherboard, so when the computer first boots up, the BIOS screen with the ASUS ROG logo appears for about 5 seconds. Then it flashes to black. Then the ASUS ROG logo re-appears, but without the "Press F2/Del to enter UEFI BIOS" at the bottom, and these white dots spinning in a circle appear at the bottom. It is at this point where it stays at this "loading" screen for about 90 seconds before I get to the desktop (very reminiscent of the old Windows horizontal progress bar from the old XP days).

I've listed the solutions I've tried so far and nothing that I've done below seems to have made any improvement in the boot times:

• I made sure to enable TRIM and optimize the SSD according to this tutorial
• I went into my BIOS and check that Fast Boot was enabled and it was set to AHCI mode. Confirmed both are the modes that were set
• Since I have a Samsung SSD, I downloaded and installed Samsung Magician utility to see if it had any performance options to fix anything. It has a "Performance Optimization" which just brought up the Windows Defrag. I set the "Over Provisioning", but it doesn't look like its meant to speed up the boot times, just the life of the SSD by setting an unallocated partition.
• I read that Windows might be taking the time to load its native display drivers so I updated my graphics card's display drivers.
• I've updated the motherboard BIOS to the latest version on the ASUS support website.
• Since it was an old SSD from an old PC that ran Windows 7 and moved to a newer build, when I first put Windows 10 on it, it was still running in legacy mode and not UEFI. I changed it to boot BIOS mode to UEFI mode a couple months ago, and I think this might be around the time I noticed boot times getting longer. Confirmed it changed BIOS Mode to UEFI under "msinfo32". I didn't do a clean install of Windows 10 and now I wonder whether or not I should have done that.