03-29-2022 11:11 AM
04-15-2022 03:55 PM
05-07-2022 11:54 PM
spatula75 wrote:
Do you have any external drives plugged in? I was experiencing something similar at one point, and the culprit was an external spinning-rust drive. I found that if I unplugged it during boot, it booted a LOT faster. Then I replaced it with an SSD and things have been a lot better ever since.
The same drive wouldn't appear in Windows, or if it did appear it wouldn't work properly, until I unplugged and replugged it; then it would be fine until a reboot.
(I kind of suspect the drive has a somewhat buggy controller, which you wouldn't expect to be a thing anymore in 2022, but I had two of the same model of drive, and both of them exhibited the exact same behavior, consistently.)
For the system stability, my usual move is to get onto the latest BIOS, restore all the settings to the defaults, change only what I need to change and nothing else, and keep track of my changes. I was also experiencing some instability in Windows itself up until recently (I hope it's gone now anyway) and opted to uninstall ALL the Asus cruft, then do a repair install of the Management Engine drivers, then reinstalled Armoury Crate and let it install what it felt like it needed. I also recently disabled the Asus "Multicore Enhancement" in the BIOS in the hope that would lend more stability to the system, even if it's at a small performance cost.
spatula75 wrote:
Do you have any external drives plugged in? I was experiencing something similar at one point, and the culprit was an external spinning-rust drive. I found that if I unplugged it during boot, it booted a LOT faster. Then I replaced it with an SSD and things have been a lot better ever since.
.The same drive wouldn't appear in Windows, or if it did appear it wouldn't work properly, until I unplugged and re-plugged it; then it would be fine until a reboot.
(I kind of suspect the drive has a somewhat buggy controller, which you wouldn't expect to be a thing anymore in 2022, but I had two of the same model of drive, and both of them exhibited the exact same behavior, consistently.)
For the system stability, my usual move is to get onto the latest BIOS, restore all the settings to the defaults, change only what I need to change and nothing else, and keep track of my changes. I was also experiencing some instability in Windows itself up until recently (I hope it's gone now anyway) and opted to uninstall ALL the Asus cruft, then do a repair install of the Management Engine drivers, then reinstalled Armory Crate and let it install what it felt like it needed. I also recently disabled the Asus "Multicore Enhancement" in the BIOS in the hope that would lend more stability to the system, even if it's at a small performance cost.