How fast should WIN 7 (64) PRO LOAD UP?

[rivbyte]

How fast should WIN 7 (64) PRO LOAD UP?


i7 Intel 4770 3.4GHz / MSI B85-G41 PC Mate MB / 16GB DDR3 (1600) / Windows 7 64 PRO

I recently rebuilt my system and this time, I bought a Samsung 840 SDD 250GB Boot drive, because I hear it's soooo fast, with programs opening up much faster than the regular hard drives.

Although Photoshop opens within seconds, but from the time I turn my computer on, until I see the MSI Logo Boot screen is 35 seconds. Then it takes about one and a half minutes to fully get to the desktop screen.

Is this a normal boot time from when I turn on the computer to the windows desktop? TWO MINUTES????

I thought the new Solid state drives were supposed to be lightning faster than the regular HDD's.

Thank you

 

[code65536]

You seem to have a really long POST. That's the time between when the system powers on to when the operating system starts loading (when you see the Windows loading logo). POST is how long it takes to initialize all your devices, and having a SSD won't speed it up. However, modern UEFI does POST much faster than legacy BIOS.

The OS and SSD come into only only after POST. With a SSD and a fairly clean OS, it should take a few seconds, at most. My laptop, which does have UEFI, takes 10 seconds from power on to login (so POST plus load). My desktop, without UEFI, takes a long time to POST, but the part after POST goes a bit faster than my laptop (I never timed it, but it feels darn near instant).

(I don't use antivirus of any sort, and I even have Defender disabled; AV will slow things down a bit, but usually only by a few seconds, not minutes.)

Did you do a clean install of your OS? If you are taking 90 seconds to get to your desktop, and this is with a clean OS install, then something is seriously wrong. If this isn't a clean OS install, then you should check what kind of stuff you have installed on your system that's set to run at startup.

Also, if you have mapped network drives that are not available, that will insert a substantial delay to the period between user login and the desktop showing up, as Windows tries to connect to the drive and waits for it to time out.

 

[HOSED]

^^^ Great answer Code65536, My G73Jh (with intel X-25 SSD (~3 years old) takes ~ 15 seconds to login & 40 seconds to working desktop. It may be worthwhile to check if you have ACHI set in BIOS

 

[Chiefcrowe]

Also, do you have UEFI boot enabled? That will speed up boot times as well but if not you'd have to reinstall to enable it.

 

[owensdj]

Something is wrong because that's far too slow. I have a similar processor, only 8GB of memory, and a hard drive instead of an SSD, and my machine boots to the log in screen in about 35 seconds counting POST. On a machine I built with a Samsung SSD the boot time was way less than that, maybe 15 seconds.

 

[FeuerFrei]

I built a pc with a Core i3 that boots Windows 7 Pro off a WD Black hard drive in 33 seconds, including the time it takes to type a password. That's the time from power button to desktop.
Motherboard is a Biostar TZ77B w/ UEFI.

 

[escrow4]

Cold boot to desktop/password with this 4770 box on a Samsung 1TB EVO is less than 8 seconds on 8.1 64-bit. Anything after password is basically instant. Shutdown less than 5.

 

[Steltek]

If you didn't do a clean install and instead cloned the prior hard drive install over to the SSD, did you use a tool that properly aligned the partitions on the SSD? You can loose a significant amount of performance if the partitions aren't aligned, and some cloning software will not automatically align the partitions unless you specifically tell it to.

You also may have a lot of unnecessary startup stuff which is running and needs to be cleaned up.

In my opinion, a clean install is always the best way to go with an SSD.