This is just a tip that might help a handful of people out. Something I discovered when tinkering with the BIOS.
When switching to AHCI mode, it introduces an AHCI BIOS to boot with the normal BIOS. For me, this appeared after the normal BIOS and significantly extended boot times. Now there are good reasons to run AHCI, TRIM support being the primary one for SSD owners like myself, so disabling it and running IDE mode wasn't an option.
This may be specific to ASUS boards:
Find the setting in the BIOS for 'Add-on ROM Display Mode' and set it to 'Keep Current'. The other setting is 'Force BIOS', which forces the add-on BIOS (such as AHCI) to show after the normal BIOS.
For some reason, on my motherboard (ASUS Crosshair III Formula), this setting is always set to 'Force BIOS' by default. Simply changing this has now cut my boot time in half (as I have an SSD). TRIM is still enabled as normal. Great result, so I thought I'd share.
When switching to AHCI mode, it introduces an AHCI BIOS to boot with the normal BIOS. For me, this appeared after the normal BIOS and significantly extended boot times. Now there are good reasons to run AHCI, TRIM support being the primary one for SSD owners like myself, so disabling it and running IDE mode wasn't an option.
This may be specific to ASUS boards:
Find the setting in the BIOS for 'Add-on ROM Display Mode' and set it to 'Keep Current'. The other setting is 'Force BIOS', which forces the add-on BIOS (such as AHCI) to show after the normal BIOS.
For some reason, on my motherboard (ASUS Crosshair III Formula), this setting is always set to 'Force BIOS' by default. Simply changing this has now cut my boot time in half (as I have an SSD). TRIM is still enabled as normal. Great result, so I thought I'd share.