Windows 10: Slow Boot - SMSS is the culprit, need help with the diag

Hello. I've run the Window Performance Recorder / Analyzer. I've narrowed the issue down to something going on during SMSSInit. It's nearly 100s of no activity - CPU and Disk IO appear to be nil, but I can't narrow the issue down. This is a decent laptop with the system on the OE SSD and a second NVME M.2 drive loaded for games. I have a sneaking suspicion that it's something to do with that 2nd drive taking a long time to initialize, but I can't prove it. Once boot is complete the system runs very fast. When I restart or shutdown/restart I get the same delay. I've tried Fast Start / No Fast Start. You can see SMSS.exe start around the 4 second mark and it sits there until the 100 second mark. I've run chkdsk and the DISM tool - no issues found. Drivers are latest/greatest including graphics drivers from nVidia and system drivers from AMD.

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Slow boot

Hi Craig,

Boot performance may slow can be due to corruptions. To assist you better, kindly answer the following questions:

• Have you made any recent changes before this issue occur?
• Have you tried booting up your laptop in Safe Mode and check if the issue still persist?
• What troubleshooting steps have you done so far?

We're looking forward to your response.

 

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Hi,

I think that the issue is caused by the "Generic HDD SCSI Disk Device" driver





you have 8 disk drive attached to your computer:

1. Samsung SSD 860 EVO 500GB
2. Samsung SSD 850 EVO 250GB
3. ST4000DM004-2CV104
4. TOSHIBA DT01ACA200
5. WDC WD20EARX-008FB0
6. Generic HDD SCSI Disk Device
7. Seagate BUP BK SCSI Disk Device
8. Kingston DT Elite G2 USB Device

I would suggest you uninstall the Generic driver from the device manager;

• Open device manager and display the hidden devices;
• Generic "HDD SCSI Disk Device" under disk driver and uninstall it.