Slow Boot on SSD

[TheOnlyMeta]

I have a OCZ Agility 3 60GB 2.5" SATA-3 Solid State Hard Drive (AGT3-25SAT3-60G). Now, I've read that this drive should be getting boot speeds of about 7-10 seconds. However I'm finding that it's taking at least 30 seconds. There must be a problem here, do any of you know what it could be?

When my motherboard starts up (Gigabyte GA-Z68X-UD3H-B3), it says it only supports Hard Disks and CD-ROMS, however my SSD has worked perfectly fine except for the slow speeds. Could it be treating it as a HDD, possibly? And if so, why does my brand new high-end motherboard only support HDDs?

 

[VaderDSL]

SSD = HDD even though the acronym isn't particularly accurate.

Might be best checking RAID is disabled in the BIOS and that your HDD is set to AHCI rather than IDE?

Reason I say check RAID is disabled is, granted it was an old mobo, but if I had RAID enabled on my old Abit IP35-Pro it would add a good 15 second to my boot time while it checked to see if there were any arrays.

 

[TheOnlyMeta]

Just now I went into BIOS to see if anything was wrong, and for some reason SATA3 was set to IDE mode even though I had the rest of the motherboard in AHCI.

This seemed to be the problem. Windows booted after setting it the AHCI in about 7 seconds. Awesome.

Thanks!

 

[VaderDSL]

NP glad it was a quick fix.