Asus Z170 Gene too slow startup on Windows 10?!...

[sahafiec]

hi guys,

I'm new to the ROG series and been using the Z170 Gene since 2 months.

while playing around I realized that the bootup procedure from cold start up to desktop takes almost 30sec.

I'm using Windows 10 Pro x64 and I see that most of the time goes to the bios part prior the Windows welcome screen.

I would appreciate any help and information on how to optimize my bios settings (running the latest 1402).

[brkkab123]

30 seconds is totally normal if you have a ssd. If you have a hdd, it will take a few minutes. You can speed Windows boot time alittle bit by restarting your pc from the login screen 7 times without logging into Windows. Just click on the power icon at the bottom right and click on restart. This will speedup prefetch by a few seconds, but you have to dit 7 times in a row for it to work. Also run check disk and CCleaner to clean your drives. A lot of temp files can slow things down. Then optimize your ssd or defragment your hard drive afterwards.

[Chino]

If your disconnect your all your USB peripherals, does your system boot up faster?

[seanbarkley]

Hey there! I have the same problem. The same computer with Windows 7 and worse CPU+ mobo (3770k + Sabertooth z77) booted up much faster. I've tried searching if some USB device was the problem, switching stuff in BIOS, killing not neccessary Windows services... but nothing worked, my boot time is 30 seconds too.

The only explanations I see atm can be: DDR4 memory training (which is known to cause slower boot times) or a BIOS issue (I've seen people whose problem gets fixed with BIOS updates). My mobo is the Maximus VIII Formula with 6700K btw.

[drop4205]

30 sec is not normal. I just did a h170pg board build with i5 6600 for a friend yesterday and his is at round8 to 10 sec cold boot. Bios screen starts at 2 sec mark. He used 950pro 2.5 ssd. I was impressed. My x99 board only takes 19 to 20 sec and theres a lot goin on in that bios training wise

[seanbarkley]

drop4205 wrote:
30 sec is not normal. I just did a h170pg board build with i5 6600 for a friend yesterday and his is at round8 to 10 sec cold boot. Bios screen starts at 2 sec mark. He used 950pro 2.5 ssd. I was impressed. My x99 board only takes 19 to 20 sec and theres a lot goin on in that bios training wise

That was my boot time with W7 and Sabertooth z77 and I didn't have any m.2 SSD, which is x4 faster that a regular one. IMO what makes boot slower is the 2nd splash screen, I hadn't seen anything like that until I bought my M8F.

[drop4205]

M.2 was not used on the board i built for his z170 build

[seanbarkley]

drop4205 wrote:
M.2 was not used on the board i built for his z170 build

Oh ok maybe you meant 850 Pro then. Do you remember if he had 2 different ROG splash screens during boot?

[drop4205]

No rog logo on the h170 just asus logo as its not a rog board. It went to asus uefi logo to a swirl of dots round once if that then blank screen then desktop. No second splash screen. There is a 850 pro m.2 and a 950 pro 2.5"ssd which makes it confusing to me sometimes but it was a sata 6 conneted 850 pro 2.5" ssd used.
Check boot order in the bios to see if manager is first then the ssd then whatever else you have attached.
Unplug all usb keyboard and mouse to see if it may be a usb issue?
Have you messed in the bios at all? Id say either load default settings save and try it again or upddate to the newest bios. If already have newest bios maybe try and reflash it again? Wouldnt hurt. Try and leave all optimized and no xmp just set ram timings and voltages manually and tr that?
May be a bad windows 10 install? Not sure thou
Maybe someone else will chim in on this

[seanbarkley]

I've done all that man, but no luck for now... I tened to think that it's a BIOS issue with ROG boards since I've seen many cases with this problem. Thanks anyway!