Slow Boot After Sept/Oct 2019 Cumulative Updates Using AMD RAID

[Erebus Warrior]

Ryzen 1600 overclocked to 4.05GHz at 1.4v NZXT Kraken X62 280MM AIO

ASRock B350 Pro4 latest BIOS 6.00

32GB's Corsair Vengeance 3200MHz XMP enabled

Gigabyte Aorus 1080 Ti Xtreme Edition

256GB Samsung NVME M.2 Used as OS drive, not in RAID mode, in normal NVME mode

AMD HW RAID: SP 500GB SATA SSD + Samsung 840 Evo 512GB both healthy drives, used for storing games

AMD HW RAID: Crucial MX500 500GB SATA M.2 not technically in RAID, just initialized by RAID controller because it doesn't show up in the OS otherwise due to Mobo in SATA RAID mode.

 

So ever since the September cumulative update that broke lots of things like audio and Windows Search UI CPU utilization spikes, my PC was extremely slow to boot to desktop after installing them. Uninstalling them fixed the slow to boot but started having the quieter audio issue's randomly? So I paused updates until yesterday 10-3-19 which Microsoft released a new Cumulative update, so I figured I'd try it out. Same issue. I've tried reinstalling all AMD Chipset and RAID/SATA drivers, and it also causes device manager to report and I/0 error with one of the SATA controllers. If I go back before these updates, no SATA driver errors. Using the previous driver versions do not fix the issue either. Finally after hours of trying literally everything I disconnected my RAID drives and switched SATA mode in BIOS from RAID to AHCI, and voila! Glorious NVME boot speeds. But as soon as you enable RAID again, it's stupid slow So idk what to do to try and fix this. I'm tempted to get a new mobo or even get a i7-8700k and mobo and sell this AMD stuff, but I want to fix this if possible first. I've also tried a Win10 Pro Fresh install leaving SATA in AHCI mode, and installing the AMD Chipset and SATA/RAID drivers, getting Windows 100% up to date, drivers up to date, several restarts, then enable RAID connect RAID drives, and still the same slow issue. Like at least 1-3 minutes of spinning circle. RAID Xpert reports no issues with RAID drives or RAID array's etc, but again device manager says supposed I/0 error with a random SATA controller. HW ID points to ASMedia controller, but the ASMedia SATA ports are not being used whatsoever, only AMD SATA port 1 and 2 on the mobo, which I've verified with the mobo user manual. If I plug the RAID drives into the ASMedia SATA ports A_1 and A_2, the mobo sees the physical disks, but is not detected by the RAID controller until I move them back to the AMD SATA ports. I'm at a loss right now. I have Gigabit internet, so yes I could delete the RAID and reset the SSD's and download my 800GB's worth of games that was on the RAID array in probably less then an hour but still. I hate seeing and having to manage 2-3 separate SSD's and space etc.

[Demostrakon]

I've given up on Raidxpert2.  Everything "worked" on my system in raid, but the striped array was providing only a minimal boost, and the system would often hang when accessing the array.  What's frustrating is that I spent days reviewing the proper setup and weeks tracking down the potential bugs and issues that all eventually pointed back to AMD drivers.  I never got rid of the system freezes until I finally destroyed the array and reinstalled Windows without raid.  Since then, the system has been rock solid, and the biggest surprise is that it now POSTs much faster (literally takes a quarter of the time). *smh*