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Merackon
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Hi,

 

Recently did a complete clean install because of a weird quirk whereby I would have the spinning blue wheel next to the cursor freeze on startup occasionally.

 

At that time, the computer was booting in about 12-18 seconds depending on the time it had been off (not sure why this influenced it at all). Now, with the same settings I am getting a far slower boot time, and things like iTunes are slow to launch, even when the music is on the SSD. This has been the case both before and after messing around with the settings in the Samsung Magician software (only really use this to use the shortcuts to the features to disable).

 

It might also be worth noting, POST time is set to 1 second, but it takes about 15 seconds to get to the Windows 8 pre launch logo. In between this time, there is a splash screen which shows something along the lines of 'Marvell Controller Set Up'. This has been the case, again, both before and after I installed the drivers for the Marvell shite on my X-79 Deluxe motherboard.

 

Any ideas as to what is going on?

 

Thanks in advance,

 

Jack

 

P.S - I have changed the MSCONFIG stuff to the usual stuff that normally enhances boot speed.

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go into your UEFI and disable the 3rd party SATA drivers

make sure all your drives are plugged into the native intel SATA ports

the ports and their controllers should be indicated on your motherboard manual

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How old is your SSD? It could be close to the end of its life cycle.

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- What is your SSD?

- Use the Intel SATA controller, and disable the others, as suggested.

- What A/V solution do you use?

Your target boot time with an SSD and Windows 8.1 should be ~6sec (fast SSD, from shutdown and not restart, measured from the moment you hit the power button to the desktop). My guess is that you Windows 8.1 under compatibility mode in the UEFI. There is no fix to this beside a format and re-install of Windows 8.1 I am afraid. And your graphics card needs to be UEFI ready as well.

Here is a guide: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/302331-doing-a-full-uefi-mode-install-on-windows-88110/

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How old is your SSD? It could be close to the end of its life cycle.

18 months old Samsung 840 Pro 256GB. Written 12.7 TB

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- What is your SSD?

- Use the Intel SATA controller, and disable the others, as suggested.

- What A/V solution do you use?

Your target boot time with an SSD and Windows 8.1 should be ~6sec (fast SSD, from shutdown and not restart, measured from the moment you hit the power button to the desktop). My guess is that you Windows 8.1 under compatibility mode in the UEFI. There is no fix to this beside a format and re-install of Windows 8.1 I am afraid. And your graphics card needs to be UEFI ready as well.

Here is a guide: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/302331-doing-a-full-uefi-mode-install-on-windows-88110/

Sorry, I completely derped out here, for some reason my hardware specs evidently aren't showing in the description below my posts. 780 DCU II and 840 Pro.

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Ok your graphics card is UEFI ready. That is nice. If you come to the point of re-installing the OS, follow the guide posted above.

That aside, Interesting. I expected you to say Samsung 840, where I would point out on the issue it has where performance drops over time.

Ok. I don't know which anti-virus you use, but some of them do (or might had a new version which it implements this feature), a virus check at boot up. Usually has no option to disable it.

The best way to know, is to uninstall it, restart your computer, and see if you have any improvements. If not, then very good, you can put it back. If you use Windows built-in Windows Defender, then that is fine, nothing to do, it doesn't have this feature.

Keep in mind that a startup from shutdown state is faster than restarts in Windows 8/10, as the OS partially hibernates when you shutdown the system.

Try what was suggested: plug the SSD on the Intel SATA controller, and disable the rest. If you have an/some HDDs, unplug the SATA cable off them.

Basically, what is being suggested is to rule out things, to better identify the problem.

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Ok your graphics card is UEFI ready. That is nice. If you come to the point of re-installing the OS, follow the guide posted above.That aside, Interesting. I expected you to say Samsung 840, where I would point out on the issue it has where performance drops over time.Ok. I don't know which anti-virus you use, but some of them do (or might had a new version which it implements this feature), a virus check at boot up. Usually has no option to disable it.The best way to know, is to uninstall it, restart your computer, and see if you have any improvements. If not, then very good, you can put it back. If you use Windows built-in Windows Defender, then that is fine, nothing to do, it doesn't have this feature.Keep in mind that a startup from shutdown state is faster than restarts in Windows 8/10, as the OS partially hibernates when you shutdown the system.Try what was suggested: plug the SSD on the Intel SATA controller, and disable the rest. If you have an/some HDDs, unplug the SATA cable off them.Basically, what is being suggested is to rule out things, to better identify the problem.

I have just spent the past hour trying to follow the UEFI guide option in the link above. However, bear in mind that all of the stuff is plugged into the fastest possible Intel controllrs for their respective device type, I was met with the message saying that the boot setting was not supported by hardware or something, and that I had to go and enable CSM to allow it to even get past go. Additionally, shown in the video, there is an option for UEFI boot that you can drag around in the boot priority UI in the EZ mode on ASUS motherboards. I do not have this at all. The only thing that I have is the DVD drive and the Samsung drive, as I had removed the other drives from my computer before this.

At this moment, I have reinstalled windows. But met the following issues:

Could not follow the guide because computer said no

Whenever I booted from the USB and after selecting the drive to install onto, after copying the files over it restarted and the whole process started again

The only way to get around this was to choose to boot override using the DVD drive

Any thoughts? Sorry if that was poorly written, I am in bed on iPad at the moment

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CSM needs to be turned off, else it emulated the BIOS.

If you have RAID configuration, currently they dont' support UEFI booting. But you said that you only have your SSD, so I don't think that concern you. Be sure your SATA controller is set to AHCI mode in the UEFI.

 

Check your graphics card manufcature for a firmware upgrade to make it UEFI ready. It probably isn't You can test this by removing the GPU and using the Intel integrated graphics only  (CSM must be turned off)

 

Once you disable CSM, when you boot your Windows disk, you should have 2 options: UEFI and something else for the disk drive. Pick UEFI.

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CSM needs to be turned off, else it emulated the BIOS.

If you have RAID configuration, currently they dont' support UEFI booting. But you said that you only have your SSD, so I don't think that concern you. Be sure your SATA controller is set to AHCI mode in the UEFI.

 

Check your graphics card manufcature for a firmware upgrade to make it UEFI ready. It probably isn't You can test this by removing the GPU and using the Intel integrated graphics only  (CSM must be turned off)

 

Once you disable CSM, when you boot your Windows disk, you should have 2 options: UEFI and something else for the disk drive. Pick UEFI.

 

There is no Intel integrated as a result of it being the X79 platform

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Look under advanced mode > Boot section. At worked I have done it, but the UEFI looked different, despite being an ASUS board as well (X99 chipset)

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Look under advanced mode > Boot section. At worked I have done it, but the UEFI looked different, despite being an ASUS board as well (X99 chipset)

Still nothing. The only thing that I get is the DVD drive and the SSD, the HDD too if that is plugged in.

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Do you have Windows 8 disk in the DVD drive? (you need to reboot once you put it in)

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I have only the USB installer, configured using the Windows Tool. I shall see if that makes any difference.

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