Insanely long boot times on clean install

[[HB]Rugrat]

I've been using Windows 10 for a couple of weeks and it's been great - dead fast, booted in seconds off my SSD.

I've done a clean install today however and it's gone a bit wrong - the boot times are crazy: it can take 4 to 5 minutes to boot. There's not much to see when it's booting obviously but the machine POSTs fine, I get to spinning circle of dots in about the same time as usual and then... the spinning circle of dots stays there for another 4-5 minutes. There is occasional hard drive access but it doesn't seem like much is going on. What's also different is that I now get the Gigabyte BIOS logo above the spinny-dot circle (rather than the new blue windows logo).

Once it starts, it's great and as fast as ever but it's driving me crazy - I've googled it and found nothing that's helped. Fast boot is enabled in the BIOS and in windows itself (and turning the option off and on again didn't help). Anybody give me some pointers on how to start diagnosing what's wrong? I'm seriously thinking about rolling back to windows 7, installing all the drivers I know were working previously and then upgrading to 10 again.

 

[gpuerrilla]

I noticed on one of my work laptops the other day when reading the BIOS update notes that sometimes things like boot up times will get sorted.

Worth a try but unlikely manufacturers are going to have these updated already especially for older/unsupported hardware.