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Help with boot time and SSD

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aliaskary77

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Hi
I have used SSDs before on other machines. On windows 7 bootup, on the pulsing windows image on a fresh install before the log in screen might be on there for only 3 seconds. As you install more and more things, it does increase to 5-7 seconds. Still great.

On my newest machine though, it could be on there a good 30 seconds.
Its a 4770k with 16GB 2400 ram, SSD is a samsung 840 pro installed with AHCI selected and an asus gpu. I also have an IBM M1015 card installed for 8 SATA ports.
Now, I did do the IT firmware installed and removed the raid rom so its a dumb SATA expander. I also tested the load times with the card not installed and no change.

any suggestions what to check?

the pc for the most part stays on and works fine, so its not a big problem, but would like to figure out why this is happening.

Thanks.
 
Is it safe to assume you have the relevant drivers installed? have you benchmarked the drive once Windows is booted to make sure you're getting the expected throughput?
 
yep all required drivers are installed. there is not much there in terms of software that could be starting up on boot as its an htpc. but this slowness was also there with a brand new install with windows only. all typical tweaks needed for ssd are there according to the samsung magician software.
 
I was in the same situation with a new Windows 7 install recently. I loaded all the available updates from Windows Update, but it still was booting slower than I expected on a new SSD, until I found this hotfix for windows 7:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2505454/en-us

Now it boots faster into Windows 7, but I had a 2TB hard drive with my SSD like the hotfix states. Not sure why this is not included in any Windows Updates yet.

I also installed this hotfix as well:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2617858/en-us

There was a rollup package here that I installed too, but it looks like it is gone now:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2775511/en-us
 
This happened to me on a new build with Win 7/SSD after setting up System Restore.

I went ahead and disabled system restore, and now it boots fast as ever!
 
thanks guys.
tried disabling system restore. no change.
tried the patches too, no change.
used the Samsung magician software and selected performance for OS optimization. still no change.
latest firmware for mb and ssd done. boot time with bootracer still shows about 39 seconds.
speed test does show 550/520. seems its a boot thing.
 
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