How Do I Fix Super Slow Boot Times?

[Mitchell158]

My PC has really slow start times and I don't know of any way of improving it. I have tried disabling stuff that has a high impact on the startup time and I also have tried totally disabling unnecessary background processes. I have an SSD (WD Blue PC SSD) and it is used as the boot drive from my bios but it takes over 3 minutes to start up. I don't know of any way of improving the time but if you do, any suggestions are greatly appreciated. Thank you for your assistance!

 

PC Specs:

Power Supply:

EVGA SuperNOVA 850W G2 Fully Modular

OS:

Windows 10

Motherboard:

Asrock Z97 Extreme 6

CPU:

i7 4790k

Memory:

G.Skill Ripjaws 16gb ddr3 1866mhz

Hard Drive:

WD Blue 1TB

Video Card:

ASUS ROG STRIX 1080Ti

[kelvinhall05]

Try clearing CMOS.

[RandoNandoz]

Clear CMOS (like the guy above) reinstall Windows and buy a new SSD if nothing else works, it's super cheap for one. Also, run crystaldiskmark or ATTO-IO.

[Mitchell158]

2 minutes ago, kelvinhall05 said:

Try clearing CMOS.

Ive never really done that how do clear the CMOS

[Mitchell158]

Just now, RandoNandoz said:

Clear CMOS (like the guy above) reinstall Windows and buy an SSD, it's super cheap for one. 

I have an ssd

 

[RandoNandoz]

2 minutes ago, Mitchell158 said:

Ive never really done that how do clear the CMOS

There should be a clear CMOS switch on your motherboard. EDIT: see page 14 of your manual https://www.asrock.com/mb/Intel/Z97 Extreme6/#Manual

[Mitchell158]

1 minute ago, RandoNandoz said:

There should be a clear CMOS switch on your motherboard. EDIT: see page 14 of your manual https://www.asrock.com/mb/Intel/Z97 Extreme6/#Manual

Thank you very much for the link and the info! I will try it and get back to your guys when im done.

 

[Mitchell158]

33 minutes ago, RandoNandoz said:

There should be a clear CMOS switch on your motherboard. EDIT: see page 14 of your manual https://www.asrock.com/mb/Intel/Z97 Extreme6/#Manual

Clearing the CMOS didnt do anything  It still takes over 3 minutes to boot

 

[Mitchell158]

46 minutes ago, RandoNandoz said:

There should be a clear CMOS switch on your motherboard. EDIT: see page 14 of your manual https://www.asrock.com/mb/Intel/Z97 Extreme6/#Manual

This is what I got on crystaldiskmark but dont really know what it means. Help would be greatly appreciated

 

[RandoNandoz]

43 minutes ago, Mitchell158 said:

This is what I got on crystaldiskmark but dont really know what it means. Help would be greatly appreciated

 

I think it's time for a new SSD, as yours is similar in speed to a hard drive. Also, did you make sure that you installed windows on your SSD, and not your WD Blue HDD?
Also, this is usually what SSDs perform like. (ignore first two rows)