Possible SSD issue or Windows.

[Gurky]

Hi guys,

 

So over the last few months my PC has got a little slower to boot around 20 seconds, now this isn't a huge issue as most of the time I turn it on and go off and get changed maybe make a drink so I don't notice but I recently updated a laptop for someone with a SSD from a HDD and it boots to use in 4 seconds vs mine 20. The main thing I noticed was it hangs on a black screen with just a - flashing for 10 seconds then boots no issues.

 

Its not the best drive a WD green m.2 Sata. I just think it should be a faster when I do a test for its speed it runs fine and hits the speeds it should not NVME but a lot faster than  HDD anyone got am idea would be much appreciated!!

 

Edit: Total boot time 34 seconds 26 on the gigabyte screen 6 of the black screen with - flashing 2 windows loading. 

 

UPDATE: So I did a BIOS update from F5 to F14 and now boot time is a lot faster and BIOS boot time in Task manager down from 40 to under 10 seconds! 

 

-Gurky 

[KangUsapEmenq]

Fellow WD Green user here. I just tested it and I kind of got 12.5-ish seconds. Sometimes, as you said before, around 10 seconds and just got blank screen for, like 5-10 seconds after the boot circling-thing before went to the lockscreen.

 

Probably because we simply using a DRAM-less (and actually garbage, from ALL of the SSD tiers I checked) SSD and the one that got 4 second boot actually got a better quality SSD.

 

But nonetheless it's a lot better than HDD after all, tbh.

[Gurky]

5 hours ago, dhannemon13 said:

Fellow WD Green user here. I just tested it and I kind of got 12.5-ish seconds. Sometimes, as you said before, around 10 seconds and just got blank screen for, like 5-10 seconds after the boot circling-thing before went to the lockscreen.

 

Probably because we simply using a DRAM-less (and actually garbage, from ALL of the SSD tiers I checked) SSD and the one that got 4 second boot actually got a better quality SSD.

 

But nonetheless it's a lot better than HDD after all, tbh.

Yeah at the time was cheap and cheerful and did me the job of getting off a HDD on a budget.

Might start to look at nvme m.2 my board is only PCIE Gen 3 I think (I've done a post before so know what I'm doing for)

 

Thanks for the help

[Gurky]

4 hours ago, Arika S said:

if you have a lot of devices plugged in at start up, it takes longer to post.

 

my desktop had a BIOS time of 15.2 seconds on my last boot.

my laptop had 5.3 seconds. and has nothing but power plugged in

That's a good shout i do have a lot plugged in! Might unplug a few and see such as my external back up drive.