NVMe very slow boot

[Leviathan88]

I am having an issue with my pc booting very slowly, I timed it a few times and it takes about 2mins 30 sec from the time I press the power button to my windows log on screen. The problem only started about a month ago, and there isn't really a change that I can pinpoint that would have been the cause. Before the system would boot from power off to windows log on in about 10-15 seconds. Windows itself after signing in starts very quickly. 

 

The NVMe drive is only about 1 year old and only holds my OS. I have a second NVMe drive and several large HDDs and multiple backup drives. (Full specs below)

 

I have updated the bios to the latest.

Checked all drivers and updates (including windows update)

Disabled all other drives in the boot sequence.

Checked fast boot.

Ran disk optimization/fragmentation.

Scanned for viruses.

Checked all boot options. 

 

The system boots slowly consistently regardless of temps. Also if I hit F2 to enter the bios it takes a few minutes to load the bios as well.

 

Interestingly after the PC has booted all systems work well and is very snappy. 

 

System Specs:

 

Running Windows 10.

 

ASUS X470 TUF

AMD Ryzen 2600

Team Group 32 gb (4x 8gb) ram @ 3,000 mhz

Power Color Radeon Vega 64

850 watt 80+ platnam

 

Drives: 

256 gb Gigabyte NVMe (C: boot drive)

512 gb Team Group NVMe (Non-bootable) 

512 gb Hatachi HDD (Encrypted, non-bootable)

4 tb western digital HDD (non-bootable)

5 tb western digital HDD (external backup, non-bootable) 

1 tb Seagate SSD (external encrypted backup, non-bootable) 

 

[badreg]

Disable your SATA controller, remove all USB devices and try again. My best guess is that it's hanging on initializing one of your drives.

[Leviathan88]

17 minutes ago, badreg said:

Disable your SATA controller, remove all USB devices and try again. My best guess is that it's hanging on initializing one of your drives.

Correct. Removing the large external HDD solved the problem...

 

The question now is how to correct the problem so I can have it plugged in and not take forever for the system to boot? 

[JayBe]

have you checked the actual boot timings and logs under eventwvr.exe? 

it usually tells you what part of your system is responsible for a slow boot.

[JayBe]

2 minutes ago, Leviathan88 said:

Correct. Removing the large external HDD solved the problem...

 

The question now is how to correct the problem so I can have it plugged in and not take forever for the system to boot? 

Sounds like either your HDD has a problem or your bios has a problem with your HDD. 
Can you try using a different HDD plugged in with A) no data and b) the same data that the "problem hdd" has?

That way you can see if either A) your HDD has a problem or B) there is data on that HDD that causes initialization problems. 

[Leviathan88]

2 minutes ago, JayBe said:

Sounds like either your HDD has a problem or your bios has a problem with your HDD. 
Can you try using a different HDD plugged in with A) no data and b) the same data that the "problem hdd" has?

That way you can see if either A) your HDD has a problem or B) there is data on that HDD that causes initialization problems. 

I'm willing to bet the issue might be with the external HDD. Its about 4 years old and tends to be moved around a lot. It holds all of my digital media that I stream to my smart TVs through the network (movies and music) I wonder if its just starting to die. I have another external drive, but its an encrypted drive and 1/4th the size. Ill see if it boots with that one connected.