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3min+ boot time since re-install W10?

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andyinv

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So, I had a Q9450, nforce 780sli, 8gb, 660GTX, 250gb SSD... served me well.

Decided I fancied an upgrade, so bought a Gigabyte GA-Z170XP, i5-6600k Skylake and 16gb ram. Kept all the hard drives, and just swapped the boards. To my surprise, the new hardware was detected and Windows originally spotted that, de-activated me... and then re-activated me. Helped of course I was using the original boot disk and my same Windows live account.

However... the OCD kicked in and I thought "yeah, but who knows what's lurking in there from the nforce chipset days.. as I'm activated on this hardware, I can now do a fresh install". So I did.

Booted up the USB media and noticed the spinny circles under the gigabyte POST logo. They sat there a good while, longer than I thought they should, but no matter this is just installation.

Installation completed, all drivers are now installed. But when I boot off the SSD, it takes over 3 mins to get into Windows! Before I did the clean install, it was less than 15 seconds. Same when it was on the Q9450.

I've no idea why this might be - anyone? Been googling, turned off the fast boot bit, looked around in the BIOS for anything relevant but can't see anything.

What's very noticeable is the spinning circles stay on the Gigabyte BIOS splash screen for the vast majority of those 3 minutes. Like there's a timeout for something.

Any ideas?

edit: one other thing. W10 insisted it couldn't install to my SSD without it being GPT. So I did that. It was fine before tho...
 
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Sounds like you switched to UEFI mode. And it is having trouble detecting a drive/device. Do you have a flash drive/other drive in the computer? It could be looking for something else to boot from. Make sure your boot drive is at the top of the boot order.

Alternatively, you could do a re-install without selecting UEFI mode (by selecting your device listed without the UEFI prefix).
 
Ketchup said:
Sounds like you switched to UEFI mode. And it is having trouble detecting a drive/device. Do you have a flash drive/other drive in the computer? It could be looking for something else to boot from. Make sure your boot drive is at the top of the boot order.

Alternatively, you could do a re-install without selecting UEFI mode (by selecting your device listed without the UEFI prefix).
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Thanks, yeah it's in UEFI mode. I changed the boot order around a little, but I think what actually helped was installing "Intel Rapid Storage Technology" from the gigabyte page. I'm now booting in just a few seconds.

I'd already tried disabling fast-boot. And I saw a tip saying that in the W10 power options, a customer power plan to set PCI Express/Link state Power Management to Off so I did that.

I'm a little suspicious of the device timeout tho - for some reason I've had a hell of a time picking up my SATA devices. So much that I've pulled 3 hard drives out. Could be ropey cables so next on the list is to switch them about. I don't really need the 3 hard drives, the main ones are fine so that's all I care about. Even they have been a little intermittent during POST detection tho. Wondering if the new PSU is dodgy...

If I get the time, I'll try unsetting various options above to see if I can isolate it, but thanks for the input in the meantime. Maybe some of this info will help someone else if they come across it.
 
Woah... may be related, but just noticed a VERY slow copy from my 2TB SATA to SSD. Ran a CrystalDiskMark and got this - writes at 80mb/s, reads at 8mb/s!! What's going on ?

Code: 
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CrystalDiskMark 5.0.2 x64 (C) 2007-2015 hiyohiyo
                           Crystal Dew World : http://crystalmark.info/
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* MB/s = 1,000,000 bytes/s [SATA/600 = 600,000,000 bytes/s]
* KB = 1000 bytes, KiB = 1024 bytes

   Sequential Read (Q= 32,T= 1) :     8.440 MB/s
  Sequential Write (Q= 32,T= 1) :    84.195 MB/s
  Random Read 4KiB (Q= 32,T= 1) :     0.927 MB/s [   226.3 IOPS]
 Random Write 4KiB (Q= 32,T= 1) :     1.262 MB/s [   308.1 IOPS]
         Sequential Read (T= 1) :     5.452 MB/s
        Sequential Write (T= 1) :    78.433 MB/s
   Random Read 4KiB (Q= 1,T= 1) :     0.447 MB/s [   109.1 IOPS]
  Random Write 4KiB (Q= 1,T= 1) :     1.064 MB/s [   259.8 IOPS]

  Test : 100 MiB [S: 84.5% (1574.4/1863.0 GiB)] (x5)  [Interval=5 sec]
  Date : 2015/09/15 12:11:21
    OS : Windows 10 Professional [10.0 Build 10240] (x64)


SSD for comparison
Code: 
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CrystalDiskMark 5.0.2 x64 (C) 2007-2015 hiyohiyo
                           Crystal Dew World : http://crystalmark.info/
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
* MB/s = 1,000,000 bytes/s [SATA/600 = 600,000,000 bytes/s]
* KB = 1000 bytes, KiB = 1024 bytes

   Sequential Read (Q= 32,T= 1) :   554.197 MB/s
  Sequential Write (Q= 32,T= 1) :   528.305 MB/s
  Random Read 4KiB (Q= 32,T= 1) :   343.849 MB/s [ 83947.5 IOPS]
 Random Write 4KiB (Q= 32,T= 1) :   309.144 MB/s [ 75474.6 IOPS]
         Sequential Read (T= 1) :   488.884 MB/s
        Sequential Write (T= 1) :   479.656 MB/s
   Random Read 4KiB (Q= 1,T= 1) :    39.830 MB/s [  9724.1 IOPS]
  Random Write 4KiB (Q= 1,T= 1) :   117.975 MB/s [ 28802.5 IOPS]

  Test : 100 MiB [C: 18.8% (43.8/232.3 GiB)] (x5)  [Interval=5 sec]
  Date : 2015/09/15 12:19:10
    OS : Windows 10 Professional [10.0 Build 10240] (x64)
 
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andyinv said:
Thanks, yeah it's in UEFI mode. I changed the boot order around a little, but I think what actually helped was installing "Intel Rapid Storage Technology" from the gigabyte page. I'm now booting in just a few seconds.

I'd already tried disabling fast-boot. And I saw a tip saying that in the W10 power options, a customer power plan to set PCI Express/Link state Power Management to Off so I did that.

I'm a little suspicious of the device timeout tho - for some reason I've had a hell of a time picking up my SATA devices. So much that I've pulled 3 hard drives out. Could be ropey cables so next on the list is to switch them about. I don't really need the 3 hard drives, the main ones are fine so that's all I care about. Even they have been a little intermittent during POST detection tho. Wondering if the new PSU is dodgy...

If I get the time, I'll try unsetting various options above to see if I can isolate it, but thanks for the input in the meantime. Maybe some of this info will help someone else if they come across it.
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Glad you figured it out. You're right, RST it what you need for that.

Edit: just saw your post about the slow drives: try swapping cables, ports.
 
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