Slow Boot Issues with SSD

Painkiller

I've just built the following system;

Intel i7 2600K
Gigabyte GA-Z68X-UD7-B3
16GB DDR3 Corsair Vengeance
Zotac GTX 590
OCZ Vertex 3 240 GB SSD (OS Installation Drive)
2 x 2TB Samsung HDD
1000W Coolermaster Silent Pro M PSU
Windows 7 Ultimate x64

The Boot Time is extremely slow with the SSD - worse than with a standard HDD.

The SSD is connected to a Sata3 port with a 6Gbps Sata3 Cable.

I've tried to resolve the issue by updating the bios to the latest version, updating windows, formatting the SSD, reinstalling the operating system and enabling Bios QuickBoot and OS QuickBoot.

The only thing I haven't tried is updating the firmware of the SSD but I'm going round in circles on the OCZ site trying to find a clear set of instructions for updating the firmware when your using the drive as a primary OS drive.

Does anyone have any suggestions on steps to take to identify or resolve the issue?

TIA

Toxteth_OGrady

To try to narrow down where the problem may lie, what boot time do you get if you connect it to a SATA 2 port?

Also have you got AHCI set in the BIOS?

OneADay

Similar sort of issue here

http://www.overclock.net/ssd/842691-solved-very-slow-windows-7-boot-3.html#post10974857

Solution appears to be to do with AHCI drivers..

Richie-from-the-Boro

Try this .. ..

Open regedit, go to [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\msahci], change "Start" to 0 (zero), reboot and change SATA to AHCI mode in bios, install latest Intel RST driver.

EDIT : Should read - uncheck the box below on the SSD Drive

NOTE : Make sure you uncheck the box below.

Painkiller

Toxteth_OGrady wrote: »

To try to narrow down where the problem may lie, what boot time do you get if you connect it to a SATA 2 port?

Also have you got AHCI set in the BIOS?

Changing the drive to a sata2 interface is going to take a while.

Richie-from-the-Boro wrote: »

Try this .. ..

Open regedit, go to [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\msahci], change "Start" to 0 (zero), reboot and change SATA to AHCI mode in bios, install latest Intel RST driver.

EDIT : Should read - uncheck the box below on the SSD Drive

NOTE : Make sure you uncheck the box below.

I've just done this, it has reduced the time spent on the gigabyte POST screen but has also had the undesired effect of opening autoplay menus for all of the other hard drives every time the computer strats up. The time on the Windows Starting & Welcome screens is roughly the smae.

Richie-from-the-Boro

Painkiller wrote: »

Changing the drive to a sata2 interface is going to take a while.



I've just done this, it has reduced the time spent on the gigabyte POST screen but has also had the undesired effect of opening autoplay menus for all of the other hard drives every time the computer starts up. The time on the Windows Starting & Welcome screens is roughly the same.

Never heard that one before ever, it must be something to do with your personal way of setting up your computer. You are gonna have to play around then, I've not used autoplay since the old King died, switch autoplay [ and at least a half dozen nonsense other bits of Win7 ] off you don't need it do you ? Just do Autoplay Enable / Disable for your preferred drives.

Your SSD is your BOOT drive, your not plugged into a USB port are you ?

50% of slow boot with or without an SSD is to do with what's in your msconfig and the gazzilions of icons all over a desktop / taskbar / toolbar / sidebar.

Use HDTune or ATTO or whatever to get some figures for yourself.

Apples2

AHCI is important. ensure it is AHCI in BIOS (it will involve an OS reinstall)

Use SSD Tweaker and ensure you clear the options for the drive (or click AUTO TWEAK SETTINGS )


What do your Boot times look like?
I have a 64GB Crucial drive and I get about 8 seconds through BIOS and about 13 seconds into Windows. My standard SATA Hard drives do drag my boot times down by a few seconds though.





My disk speeds using Crystal Disk Mark whilst I am using the PC (downloading at max chat)

Painkiller

My boot times are still slow;

Apples2

Definitely AHCI enabled?

Try pulling out the Samsungs drives and anything else plugged in apart from the minimum (keyboard, mouse).

Painkiller

There are 3 different Sata options in the bios that are set to IDE by default. I have changed them all to AHCI and reinstalled the OS with the minimum amount of components installed. Along with the USB issue - I'm beginning to think the mobo is faulty

Toxteth_OGrady

Have you tried a comparison between the iastor driver and the msachi driver?