RVIE Samsung 840 256GB SSD windows 7 x64 boot time too long ??

[izajasz]

Hi,

After O/C related issued i focused of doing perfect clean windows 7 install. I dloaded murph78's splipstreamed ISO of windows 7 x64 Ultimate ENG and installed. I installed newest MEI from station drivers and newest chipset + RST(12.5.1066) from intel site. I ve installed nwest drivers for ASMEDIA USB3 and SATA3 + newest NVIDIA and Creative ZxR driver. Generally all drivers are updated + i have magician 4.1 installed and set for OS Optimization - High performance. After installing all drivers and software windows 7 boots for like circa 19 sec. I have seen dudes with times 11 sec and better. The best thing is that before isntalling any driver and software windows 7 boots instantly. Odd is that with my PC when i power up the SATA LED on my case starts indicating transfer after the windows flag "completes" then the PC start to use HDD and from that point ive counted about 16 sec boot time. SEeing this video : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGV_UlsgXnQ 1 question comes to my mind : How the hell this dude makes his pc boot just after windows flag forms (when my PC only starts to load at this point o_O ) ? My PC is definetly 10x more powerfull with RIVE (i use the same SSD as the guy in the video). I would appreciate info of others peoples experience.

P.S. Forgot to add i install windows7 in UEFI mode.

[Chino]

It's hard to compare SSD speed between system since each is unique. You both probably have different programs at startup and such. If it really bothers you, you can disable the Windows startup splash screen and that'll probably shave a few seconds off your boot time. Be warned though. If you were to encounter any errors during boot, you won't see them. lol It's the only downside.

[HiVizMan]

The more hardware you have connected the slower it will be, do you have Asmedia ports disabled? That normally helps a bit.

[izajasz]

No, i have Asmedia SATA enabled. I will disable it and well see if it speeds up. According splash screen disabling - i really never thought of doing it and didnt know its possible. I will try to disable splash ust to see what effect it gives.

EDIT: Disabling Asmedia SATA indeed shortened the boot time - now it starts loading in the middle of windows flag forming. Additionally disabling splash screen made little to no diffrence. I wish i could get boot time like that dude - his pc starts loading immediately when the flag starts to form and my PC starts to load when the flag is halfway done 😛

[BOLTS4BREKFAST]

@izjasz

I can tell you exactly why his boot time is much faster...

His board is Z77.. Yours is X79...

Yes, I know x79 is newer/better/etc...

But truth is that x79 just takes longer to boot. Period.


A friend of mine has a Z77 (EVGA) board.. And his boots much faster on a single SSD vs my RIVE with 2 Samsung SSD's in RAID-0

Disabling the Asmedia ports (already suggested) helps boot time.
Also enable "fast boot" option in BIOS.
Set post delay to 1 second in BIOS.
Set option ROM to "keep current" in BIOS.
There's also a USB initialization setting in BIOS that you can change to "minimal" (I believe that's the option) so that it will only load USB keyboard and Mouse in BIOS for faster boot times.. There's also an option to completely turn off USB initialization... But unless you have a PS2 keyboard handy you won't be able to access BIOS to make changes.

Hope this helps!

[cx-ray]

I have an HTPC with H77 chipset and use the integrated video on the CPU. There's basically nothing on the board. It boots into Win 7 3-4 seconds. This includes the POST.

My RIVE on the OTOH takes about 15s.

[izajasz]

BOLTS - Thanks for clarification. It indeed makes sense that more "packed" mobos boot longer. The asmedia ports disable helps significantly (its weird as it must be poorly optimized driver) I am using fast boot and no USB inicialization with USB keyobard - if u want enter bios with USB init disabled just spam "del" all the time 🙂 I also set fullscreen logo with 0 sec show time - i believe this is even better than 1 sec post show 😛 And i have fast boot enabled ofc.

cx-ray - Your still boots 2 x faster than mine. Care to tell me how u achieved it ? 😄

[cx-ray]

I have all hardware disabled that I don't use:
Asmedia SATA
On-board sound
Bluetooth

In the Boot menu:
USB partial initialization
PS/2 Auto

No logo
Wait time 1 sec
Orom keep current

But the biggest difference was made when I installed the OS in UEFI mode when I was using Win 7.

[Arabicuser]

Well, i also has this bug and bought different SSDs to test, using 3 rigs, 2 of them with X79 and 1 with Z77, that Z77 rig booting in no time, the windows logo even doesn't complete or doesn't have one round and it is in Windows 7, even faster than that dude on the video link you posted, and i am like you, What the hell is going on with my 2 X79 mobos can't beat or boot fast same as that one of my Z77? it complete the flag windows logo and takes about 3-4 sec after that to be in windows, so about 8-9 seconds longer than Z77, i don't know what i must do to increase the speed of booting or say make it faster?

I checked the bios and tweaked startup and everything, still my Z77 even with drivers installed and didn't remove startup and other things boot in no time while my 2 X79 with all removal unnecessary startup/device and can't even boot in windows without completing the flag logo.

[cx-ray]

For what it's worth I can tell you it's probably not your Samsung drive, unless it has a defect. I just switched from Intel 520 RAID 0 to Samsung 840 Pro RAID 0 two days ago. Boot times are basically unchanged.