Slow cold boot - Faulty SSD ?

CosminGCole

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First of all, I hope this thread is in the right place since I really don't know what's causing the problem in the 1st place.

Now, my question is WHYYY for God's sake is my PC booting super slow the 1st time of the day or even when I turn it off and then back on after a few minutes? (restarts are super fast..most of the times).

The problem is that it loads very slowly until it gets to the Gigabyte splash screen, sits there for a good 10-20 seconds and then it moves on to all blank with only one small dash, blinking in the top left corner of the screen. After it took again 20 years to move from that, the windows literally loads in 2 seconds and everything works just fine.

Could this be a hardware problem ? Maybe a faulty SSD ?

Help me understand this since I've googled it for way too many times and I haven't found a proper explanation of this anywhere.

Cheers !
 
latest bios? it shouldn't take that long

could also be cold boot/ram setting/voltage related

you usually need more memory controller voltage with 16gb of ram but I don't know what its labelled as on gigabyte z97 as I don't own that chipset
 
wazza300 said:
latest bios? it shouldn't take that long

could also be cold boot/ram setting/voltage related

you usually need more memory controller voltage with 16gb of ram but I don't know what its labelled as on gigabyte z97 as I don't own that chipset
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I do have the latest BIOS on, it's even a the beta one (works better than the last one).

The RAM settings from what I can tell you is "maxed" which means i set it on the highest voltage/number available (I really don't know if it's voltage what I need to say)
 
its vccio/system agent voltage analogue and digital i/o

one of them usually defaults to 1.05v i think atleast on z77,you might need around 1.15v

max safe is 1.2v but you shouldn't need that much,it usually helps with cold boot startups
 
I had the same problem with this mobo, for me the cause was my Ram, the XMP wasnt setting the voltage to 1.65v, once i figured that out i set it manually and it stopped the slow boots. I would just check your using the correct XMP and then check its setting the voltage.
 
GB boards are a bit notorious for cold boot issues - usually related to having larger amounts of RAM. There are sometimes options for different RAM startup mechanisms in the BIOS and its often solved just by upping the IMC and VTT voltages to ~1.15v as per wazza's post.
 
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