Day 1 of SSD and some interesting...observation

[jimpatrick]

windows logo should not finish the animation on a ssd,boot time from post should not be more than 8sec.mine only takes 7 and using ahci.

 

[fakebun]

Ya I don't know what is happening here. It is on ahci

 

[groberts101]

what is happening is that every system is different. If you want THAT particular system to boot as fast as possible?.. then remove all devices except the boot drive and shut down almost everything in the bios not needed to boot. Sound, LAN, 3rd party sata controllers, etc. Then run an SSD on the system with absolutely no updates on a virgin W7 install. No utilites, no blatware, etc. Won't be worth much for a system that needs to be functional.. but it will boot about as fast as that particular hardware arrangement will allow anyways.

Then time the boot compared to everything else being put back to where and the way it was.

Another way to look at it by comparing 2 almost identical systems with different mobo's. The bios alone being one of the most important features for fast boots. And sometimes not even the ones that actually have fast-boot options will beat the ones that do not. That's unfortunately just the way the cookie crumbles sometimes. Hell.. even a particular mouse or keyboard of varying interfaces can add boot time.

My advice would be to redo the install if you really feel that something seems off. Not usually worth the time and tailchasing to fix things like this. Just secure erase the drive to wipe its mapping/return fresh state, clear the CMOS, and reinstall a fresh OS with only the SSD and the optical drives attached(USB installs are much better though).

Sometimes you just need to re-baseline the setup to knock the bugs and glitches out of the picture. If I only had a buck for everytime I've heard someone say.. "I don't really know what happened the first time I did it.. but I did it the exact same way and things are much better this time around". Good luck with it

 

[palladium]

How were you able to disable the optical drives?

I just went through my BIOS and I don't see how I can disable either of my optical drives. I see that I could switch their SATA ports from AHCI mode or IDE mode, but I just don't see how to disable them except for unplugging the power and/or the SATA cables.

Currently, the optical drives are set to AHCI mode and plugged into SATA ports. They cause a delay during the boot-up BIOS POST procedure, so it would be nice to disable them somehow without having to reach in and unplug cables. Perhaps my mobo just can't do it? (ASUS M4A89GTD Pro USB3)

I think he might be talking about disabling it in Device Manager. I think some motherboards allow individual SATA ports to be disabled, those are probably the higher end MBs or those that come with OEMs (I know my old Dell does).

 

[palladium]

windows logo should not finish the animation on a ssd,boot time from post should not be more than 8sec.mine only takes 7 and using ahci.

Not on Vista, no. 😛

 

[KingFatty]

I think he might be talking about disabling it in Device Manager. I think some motherboards allow individual SATA ports to be disabled, those are probably the higher end MBs or those that come with OEMs (I know my old Dell does).

I'm interested in reducing POST times, before windows starts to load. If I disable the optical drives in Windows device manager, my understanding is that won't affect the post times before windows begins loading? Currently windows loads really fast on the SSD, but my PC spends a bit of time just getting to where it can being loading windows due to the BIOS POST etc. If there is an easy way to speed up POST, I'm going to try it out, but nothing too drastic like turning off my sound card or USB ports. I almost never use my optical drives, so maybe I will unplug them if I can't disable them in BIOS.

 

[Shmee]

there may be a "fast post/quick boot" option In bios that you may be able to enable, depending on board.

other than that, the more devices you have connected, the longer it will usually take. also, if you have a UEFI board, those can boot much quicker with UEFI enabled.