Windows 10: Reboots much slower after enabling AHCI

Hi. For some reason after enabling AHCI in my BIOS reboots are wayyyy slower than they used to be on IDE. On the windows loading screen before the login screen, It sits there and loads for almost a minute now. Before it used to be 20 seconds max. When doing a full shut down and turn on it almost instantly logs me in (probably because of fast boot).

Any way to fix this?

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AHCI Windows 10 Driver for ASUS X551M w/ toshiba SSD

Try to install Windows 10 in IDE mode. Then change mode to AHCI in Windows, reboot, change IDE to AHCI in bios, drivers should install automatically.

Maybe these will help: Enabling AHCI mode AFTER Windows 10 installation

 

Is AHCI enabled?

I dont have the "IDE ATA/ATAPI Controllers" list. This is what i have (I attached a picture). I also can't find it when
i check "Show hidden Devices"! By the way FYI my computer is an hp z800 WORKSTATION

 

Requires editing registry. GUIDE - Enabling AHCI mode AFTER Windows 7 Installation GUIDE - Enabling AHCI mode AFTER Windows 7 Installation - Guru3D.com Forums

The guide is for windows 7 but maybe the same for windows 10. I did this years ago in win 7.

 

I did make all those registry tweaks. If I didn't it wouldn't even let me boot into windows without a BSOD. My issue now is just the extremely long reboot times. I was liberal when I said 1 minute before. Now it seems to be up to 1min 30 seconds for a reboot.

 

My advice. If you don't have SSD or a server you probably don't need AHCI. But no hurting in testing both.

IDE is more compatible.

 

I do have an SSD. :/ That's why I switched.

 

Check, if you have the latest driver installed, by default Windows usually installs generic SATA controller driver.

 

Unfortunately my motherboard only officially supports up to windows 7. So the ones on the site are way outdated.

 

Maybe make an hard drive image with Macrium Reflect and try a clean install. Or throw an empty hard drive in and try a clean install.

Might be something you have installed.

Try Process Monitor

I had a problem with a slow hard drive and found out it was something I installed. I removed it and no more slow drive.

 

Let us know more about your computer. Let us see your System Information file.
System Information File - Create in Windows 10 - Windows 10 Forums

Save, it, dont export. Then zip and upload.

 

Arc, please check your PM for the msinfo file.

 

Try doing the following:

1. Open a cmd window with elevated privileges (cmd.exe). Type "bcdedit /set {default} bootmenupolicy legacy", without quotes to enable booting options with F8 key at startup.
2. Reboot. Enter BIOS and configure SATA as IDE.
3. Boot Windows into safe mode by pressing F8 before it loads.
4. Open Device Manager to check SATA is actually set to IDE mode.
5. Reboot again. Enter BIOS and set SATA to AHCI mode.
6. Boot again into safe mode (F8). Enter Device Manager and check that AHCI is enabled (even if it's using standard MS AHCI driver).
7. Reboot and boot Windows NORMALLY.
8. If you mainboard uses an Intel chipset, try downloading latest chipset driver from Intel webpage. Install it.
9. Do not install anything else for now (like Intel Rapid Storage thing). Check first if everything is fine.

 

You might have posted that file here in the thread as well, no problem is there with it; it does not share any of your personal information (other than the username of the computer).

# Well, with 27 statrup items, boot must be slow. IDE, AHCI, SCSI, nothing have anything to do there. And apparently you dont really need anything there other than DisplayFusion. Clean it up, reboot time should be improved upto a certain level.
Follow this guide: Clean Boot - Perform in Windows 10 to Troubleshoot Software Conflicts - Windows 10 Forums

# You have a great lot of storage. But as you have the SSD, generally it is used as the C drive, and the C drive should come first in the disk order. Apparently the 120 GB Crucial SSD is the C drive there, but it is the fourth one in the disk order.
Code: Model M4-CT128M4SSD2 ATA Device -------------------------------------------------------------- Partition Disk #4, Partition #0 ===> C Drive Partition Size 118.80 GB (127,561,367,552 bytes) -------------------------------------------------------------- Partition Disk #4, Partition #1 Partition Size 450.00 MB (471,859,200 bytes)[/quote] Please arrange the Disks properly. And tally it with the Boot order set into the BIOS.

# This driver ..... I am not finding any reason for it to be there .....
Code: Name Asmedia 106x SATA Controller Driver c:\windows\system32\drivers\asstor64.sys (2.0.8.0, 82.83 KB (84,816 bytes), 1/27/2014 5:30 PM)[/quote] The motherboard supports Intel SATA, which is now managed by microsoft AHCI driver Storahci.sys; Gigabyte SATA (RAID Mode, powered by JMicron), now disabled and managed by microsoft driver; and Marvell RAID (apparently not in use). So I am not seeing a reason for ASmedia RAID driver to be there.

Take care of these three things and let us know the result. We may need to dig further, but these three are the first things to look at.

 

Okay, will try those things, but when I go to my controllers right now, it is mentioning both IDE and AHCI. Does that mean some drives are using AHCI and others IDE? I do recall before enabling AHCI in my BIOS AHCI did not show up at all in this list.