Extremely long SSD boottime

[Cru139]

Hello smart people,

so I finally got me a SSD, Intel 520 128GB, but my boottime is so long lol.

Takes about 30 seconds after BIOS till I'm actually on my desktop.

Yes I've used a SATA3 port, yes I've used a SATA3 cable, yes it's a fresh Win7 installation - no data migration.

When I test the read speed of the SSD in Windows with something like crystal disk mark i get like 450MB/s, so seems to be fine.

But the boottime is just way too long for a SSD, any advice?

[Wats]

I bet you're in not in AHCI mode. Btw once you install windows on IDE you can't boot in AHCI

[Guest]

I bet you're in not in AHCI mode. Btw once you install windows on IDE you can't boot in AHCI

Most likely

[ErwinS]

I bet you're in not in AHCI mode. Btw once you install windows on IDE you can't boot in AHCI

+1 on that

[Cru139]

alright thanks, win7 reinstall then

[BCMods]

You don't always have to reinstall...

[Pyromaniacc]

You don't need to re install all you have to do is change 1 registry entry before you switch to ahci. Also ahci doesn't usually make that massive of a difference but it might in your case.

Here's how to enable ahci mode.