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Slow boot on SSD, fresh install
Hello everyone,
I recently bought a Samsung 840 Evo 250 GB.
I first made sure my SATA controllers were set to AHCI, Secure Erased the SSD and benchmarked the SSD (didn't quite reach advertised speeds but nothing too bad) and updated the SSDs firmware (all while still under my HDD Windows 7 install), then uncoupled all drives, hooked up my SSD to SATA port 0 (the AMD one, which are all SATA 6Gb/s). Installed windows, followed http://www.overclock.net/t/1156654/s...-for-ssds-hdds to the letter.
Boot times are however not 10-12 something seconds as you usually hear from people when they upgrade to an SSD. They are in the 40-45 second range.
To avoid having to repeat myself I'll post a link to a thread I started on Overclockers.com:
Slow boot with new SSD, fresh install - Overclockers Forums
Please read that thread to see what I've tried so far (a lot of things. A lot. I've been trying for 3 full days now).
I'm hoping people here can help me solve this problem. In particular, I did a boottrace following this guide:
Gathering a Startup, Shutdown, Sleep, Hibernate, or Reboot Trace
However, I have no idea how to interpret it. I really hope someone here can help me with that/interpret it for me. Also, it'd be great if someone could give me a tip on where to host the boottrace file so you can review it.
In addition to what's mentioned in that Overclockers.com thread I've also just run chkdsk on my external drive. No errors, nothing.
Also, I said in that topic that performance after boot is what you'd expect from an SSD. I'm starting to doubt that. Benchmarks are still okay though.
Thanks in advance!
Last edited by Vexillarius; 25 Jul 2014 at 14:26.