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RIVE Windows boot is REALLY slow compared to P8H67-M Pro?

Kosire
Level 7
Hey

I have a HTPC with a Asus P8H67-M Pro and a Samsung 830 64GB SSD.
Booting into windows here is ridiculously fast. We are talking 3 seconds on the windows logo and half a second on the Welcome screen.

But on my desktop.. thats another case. Using Asus Rampage IV Extreme and a Samsung 830 256GB SSD (which is better in terms of IOPS than the 64GB) the windows logo is utterly crap slow. We are talking 6-7 seconds looking at the windows logo. Then the monitors turns off and then on again 2 seconds later and then I look at the welcome screen for 2 seconds and I'm in.


Now, this is with both FULLY formatted clean install of Windows 7 on both. Latest BIOS and I've turned off anything I don't use in the bios to reduce POST time such as ASMedia Storage and the likes.


What is going on? I have read on other forums about other people expierence slow windows boots with the RIVE.
People claim it being GPU initialization during Windows Boot logo?


My desktop specs:
Intel Core i7-3930K
Noctua NH-D14 SE2011
Asus Rampage IV Extreme
Corsair Dominator-GT 32GB DDR3 2133MHz (8x4)
MSI N580GTX Lightning
Corsair Professional Series Gold AX850
Samsung 830 Series 256GB SSD


My HTPC specs:
Intel Core i5-2500K
Asus P8H67-M Pro
Kingston HyperX Genesis 2 x 4 GB
Intel HD Graphics 3000
Samsung 830 Series 64 GB SSD
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Kosire
Level 7
Here's the thread I found via. google about the GPU init. stuff

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?277136-***ASUS-Rampage-IV-Extreme-Owners-Thread**...

Guy1
"Anyone else finding boot time is very slow on this board?"

Guy2
"It's the A2 POST code - GPU initialization. It takes forever and I don't know why. "