Slow Boot Time

[turdwagon1800]

I recently purchased a cheapy asus laptop for the purpose of having a computer that will allow me to not be chained to my desk, and my desktop. Upon receiving said laptop, I cracked it open, and replaced the HDD with a Samsung 850 SSD. The performance is good for a low spec'd computer. Most significantly in this context is that it boots super quick. From hitting the power button to actually being functional in Windows seriously takes about 4 seconds if that. I haven't timed it, but it is stupid fast to boot up.

 

So this leads to my question/concern, which actually pertains to my desktop, and not the new laptop. My desktop, which is home built by yours truly, has a PCIe based ssd, and a separate hdd for bulk data. This computer takes 25 seconds to boot fully. I have timed it. several times. When I say boot, I mean the time that it takes to get to a windows desktop, from being completely off. When I built the computer last year I was expecting it to do a little better than this. I tried tweaking things in the bios, like turning off the unused sata ports on the board, and several other things that I can't recall right now, but no matter what I do the best boot time I can get is 25 seconds. I had pretty much just accepted this, and put it out of my mind. That is until I got this new laptop which boots in like four seconds, and contains parts of a lower tier. The slower booting desktop is made from mostly higher end parts, and as expected, it preforms well everywhere, except for boot time. When booting the desktop it seems to post pretty quickly and then hangs on the asus screen with the spinning wheel. So I am pretty sure that this means that the bios, or uefi is loading quickly, and then Windows it taking its sweet time. So my question is.. why does my $400 laptop boot up in 4 seconds, but my $1300 desktop takes 25 seconds to boot?

 

Here on the specs on the desktop in question. 

Asus Z-170k (motherboard)

i7 6700k (CPU)

R9-390x (Graphics)

16GB Corsair Vengence DDR4

Samsung MZHPV PCIe SSD (C:\ Drive)

Toshiba HDD 7200 rpm (Storage)

Samsung 850 SSD (Vacant)

Windows 10

[Burusutazu]

Do you have fast boot enabled? I know my Inspiron would boot super quick when I had it on, although I turned it off after it was causing glitches.

[ziogref]

Software and peripherals can slow boot times. So your laptop only has the things it needs to run (keyboard, touchpad, screen) and since you said you swapped out the hdd for the ssd im assuming that you have a fresh install of windows.

 

So the more peripherals you have plugged in can lead to slower boot time (things like joyticks, gamepads, controllers, usb hubs etc)

Also once you start installing software more thing will wont to start on boot, slowing the system down more.

 

if you are running windows 8,8.1 or 10 you can open up task manager and check the "start up" tab, and you can see what is launching on boot and the impact it has.

 

note: I have noticed that widows boot times seem to slow down over time, on my fresh install it was only a few seconds, now (like yours) its more like 20 seconds. Still a 25 second boot is better than 1min25 with a hdd

[turdwagon1800]

3 hours ago, Burusutazu said:

Do you have fast boot enabled? I know my Inspiron would boot super quick when I had it on, although I turned it off after it was causing glitches.

I had fast boot enabled at one time and it had no impact on the boot time, so I turned it off.

[turdwagon1800]

1 hour ago, ziogref said:

Software and peripherals can slow boot times. So your laptop only has the things it needs to run (keyboard, touchpad, screen) and since you said you swapped out the hdd for the ssd im assuming that you have a fresh install of windows.

 

So the more peripherals you have plugged in can lead to slower boot time (things like joyticks, gamepads, controllers, usb hubs etc)

Also once you start installing software more thing will wont to start on boot, slowing the system down more.

 

if you are running windows 8,8.1 or 10 you can open up task manager and check the "start up" tab, and you can see what is launching on boot and the impact it has.

 

note: I have noticed that widows boot times seem to slow down over time, on my fresh install it was only a few seconds, now (like yours) its more like 20 seconds. Still a 25 second boot is better than 1min25 with a hdd

I do have a fair amount of software running on this machine, as well as a fair amount of peripherals, so that may be it. As far as programs starting up at boot time I am very staunch about staying on top of those, and not allowing anything to start up at boot unless it is something that is absolutely needed. This computer is a little less than a year old now, and it has taken the same amount of time to boot since the day that it was built. Maybe a fresh Windows install is the next thing to try on this.  

[ziogref]

1 hour ago, turdwagon1800 said:

I had fast boot enabled at one time and it had no impact on the boot time, so I turned it off.

Fast boot is a thing, Its worth turning it on, especially if you have a fair few peripherals.

1 hour ago, turdwagon1800 said:

I do have a fair amount of software running on this machine, as well as a fair amount of peripherals, so that may be it. As far as programs starting up at boot time I am very staunch about staying on top of those, and not allowing anything to start up at boot unless it is something that is absolutely needed. This computer is a little less than a year old now, and it has taken the same amount of time to boot since the day that it was built. Maybe a fresh Windows install is the next thing to try on this.  

If you fresh install, it will happen again and slow down after 6 month, you have to think like this, is spending the next 3 hours or so reinstalling windows to save 15 seconds in boot times?