P8Z77-V Pro horrendous boot times

[snowbound]

I just finished building a system with the following

P8Z77-V Pro BIOS 1206
i5 3570K (not overclocked)
Corsair Vengeance 16GB DDR3 1600MHz CL9 Dual Channel Kit (4 x 4GB)
500GB Caviar Black 7200rpm SATA III w/ 32MB Cache (boot drive)
1TB Caviar Black 7200rpm SATA III w/ 64MB Cache
OCZ 600W ModXstream Pro SLI Ready Power Supply
Win7 Pro x64

The bootup time of Win7 is horrendous taking close to 1:15 to get to the desktop! My old AMD600+ w 5GB of RAM is faster. Are there problems with some of the Asus supploed drivers or utils? Using Asus Suite along with the onboard video card.

 

[birthdaymonkey]

Is it spending most of that time crunching through the Windows load, or is it BIOS splash screens, etc?

There's a key you can press (maybe just "esc"?) to see which driver Windows is loading when it gets stuck. I had a P7P55-D that would take a long time to boot whenever the 3rd-party SATA controller was enabled, even though I didn't have any drives connected to it. It halted for like 30 seconds down when loading disk.sys, even though I had an SSD as my boot drive.

EDIT: Perhaps you have to use System Configuration to see which drivers are slowing down the load:

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/3247...ges-to-troubleshoot-windows-startup-problems/

 

[snowbound]

Its crunching through Windows loading. The 2 SATA drives are hooked up to the Intel controller. The Marvell SATA has nothing attached to it. I tried those options at HotoGeek and it appears to be something after the black boot screen since those items scroll off quickly. I am pretty sure there something one can do in event viewer also to see what processes are taking up time loading.

This may be the option I am thinking of http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/wi...down-issues-that-cause-slower-boot-times/3253

 

[BonzaiDuck]

Its crunching through Windows loading. The 2 SATA drives are hooked up to the Intel controller. The Marvell SATA has nothing attached to it. I tried those options at HotoGeek and it appears to be something after the black boot screen since those items scroll off quickly. I am pretty sure there something one can do in event viewer also to see what processes are taking up time loading.

This may be the option I am thinking of http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/wi...down-issues-that-cause-slower-boot-times/3253

There is -- of COURSE -- always the possibility that there is some glitch with the mobo, but I'm not sure at this point -- would seem unlikely.

But you need to build the machine and set it up in phases which eliminate confusions and errors.

Hook up one, single SATA drive as your boot disk. Leave the other disconnected. If you are going to do "RAID0" or ISRT, set the BIOS as "RAID" for all drive ports (a single item, anyway). Disable the Marvell controller in BIOS. Run MEMTEST before anything -- before even setting up Windows on the boot disk. And if you were planning on using ISRT -- keep the caching SSD disconnected until you have everything (including OS) all nailed down. You can use the single boot disk to create a RAID0 -- which it should do within the INtel controller BIOS -- and you won't lose either data or time . . . .

Don't know about Z77, but you may want to have Intel ACHI and RAID drivers ready on a USB drive for the early part of Windows installation. Did you do that? Did it ask for the old "F7" (or was it F6?) driver installation? It will see the USB flash drive, and find the drivers there before continuing.

 

[snowbound]

There is -- of COURSE -- always the possibility that there is some glitch with the mobo, but I'm not sure at this point -- would seem unlikely.

But you need to build the machine and set it up in phases which eliminate confusions and errors.

Hook up one, single SATA drive as your boot disk. Leave the other disconnected. If you are going to do "RAID0" or ISRT, set the BIOS as "RAID" for all drive ports (a single item, anyway).

Disable the Marvell controller in BIOS. Run MEMTEST before anything -- before even setting up Windows on the boot disk. And if you were planning on using ISRT -- keep the caching SSD disconnected until you have everything (including OS) all nailed down. You can use the single boot disk to create a RAID0 -- which it should do within the INtel controller BIOS -- and you won't lose either data or time . . . .

Was using AHCI and ISRT and ISCT were both disabled. Will disable the Marvell. Ran Memtest for 7 passes no errors. No SSD involved in this build nor RAID.

Don't know about Z77, but you may want to have Intel ACHI and RAID drivers ready on a USB drive for the early part of Windows installation. Did you do that? Did it ask for the old "F7" (or was it F6?) driver installation? It will see the USB flash drive, and find the drivers there before continuing.

Did not ask for any drivers. Had to install the drivers for the ! items in device manager:audio, nic, Intel Management, Video etc.
The 1206 Bios has a bug in that if one is using a PS/2 keyboard the DEL to get into UEFI does not work. One has to use F8.