Windows 10 Slow Boot Time on SSD: GTX 1050 Ti, AMD Ryzen 3, Gigabyte Motherboard Issue?

Hello.

In January this year, I was assembling my brother's computer. Everything was fine, the system stood up literally immediately. With time, it happened to him that Windows started up for a long time. From an indefinite time, Windows 10 starts (i.e. the time of the Windows startup animation, as soon as the Windows logo appears on the login screen) more than 4 minutes.

Computer Specification:
System: Windows 10 ver. 1803
Graphics: Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050 Ti
Processor: AMD Ryzen 3 1200
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-A320M-S2H
RAM: IR-X3000D464L DDR4 8GB 24000 DIMM
SSD drive (for system and games): ADATA SU800 256GB
HDD (data storage): Segate Barracuda 250GB ST3250410AS

As I mentioned, the system startup time is over 4 minutes. I have no idea what could be the reason anymore. I updated motherboard drivers, scanned both drives, registry cleaned regularly. Both drives in good condition. Someone may complain that when the system starts up, a lot of applications are launched - well, no, I turned off everything unnecessary - still to no avail.

I would not like to rebuild Windows because there are a lot of games on the disk that weigh quite a lot. Perhaps there is a solution that I simply overlooked in the world.

UEFI also seems to be fine, AHCI is set. I tried to re-plug SATA ports, also to no avail.

Anyone have an idea why the system startup could be so long? I would understand if it was 15-20 seconds but not 4 minutes on an SSD which is in very good shape.

enowaczek96 wrote:

there are quite a few games on the disc that weigh quite a lot.

What is the amount of free disk space?

The SSD is free of 83 GB with 255 GB and the HDD 129 GB with 250 GB, so this is probably not the reason ...

What is this HDD?
Show him SMART.

As I wrote in the post - this drive is a Segate Barracuda 250GB ST3250410AS. Now I also noticed that most of the games are installed on this disk and on SSD applications, programs, etc. In any case, it is a disk swapped out from the old computer as 'extra'. He has a good few years. Could any minor flaw (read: wear) of this disk affect booting from a completely different disk?

Unplug it and see if there is any improvement.

There is no improvement. What's interesting - after disconnecting the HDD I couldn't boot the system, I fixed it with diskpart, but that's not the point. HDD disconnected, I fired all possible bootings in UEFI, I only left SSD with the system - it starts up around 4 minutes all the time.

and did you check the sdd if it has errors?

Hello.

Try uninstalling the antivirus.
Reinstall the chipset drivers.

Alternatively, restore your system from a restore point until about the time it appeared. Then it will be seen whether it is hardware or something with the system.

Regards

Check the Windows event log for error, fatal, and warning events after starting the computer. You can set a filter to show only these events and narrow it down to the last hour. Analyze whether there is a problem starting some services or any other errors that may appear suspicious of this behavior.

From hour to hour, the system started to fire up properly - it didn't even take 7-8 seconds from pressing the firing button to the login screen. In any case, after restarting the computer, the same situation is back.

In general, I've also noticed that long booting occurs mainly after restarting or rebooting the computer. Long system startup when first turning on the computer occurs sporadically, but it is not a normal situation.

Below I am inserting the Windows event viewer - these are the only errors that appear after opening the system for such a long time, but from what I noticed, in the event viewer, they also occur during the system operation.

I uninstalled the antivirus - to no avail.

I also tried to restart the computer with a clean boot via the System Configuration panel. In the general tab I unchecked 'Load startup items', in the Boot tab I checked 'Safe boot' with the 'Minimal' option. In the services tab, I turned off all services not related to Microsoft. Without any results.

I reinstalled the chipset drivers - no changes.

I have no way to restore the system because there is no restore point that I could use in this situation.

I ran chkdsk without showing any errors.

At the moment I am unable to update the disk's firmware.

View of events. Generally, only in this tab there were any events related to a given situation.


Scanning the disk for errors.


SMART disk.


Drive status from dedicated ADATA application.

I didn't notice any problems at first sight with FRST. I will propose from myself:
1) Power options: high efficiency
2) Disable pagefile.sys- System-Properties-Advanced-Virtual Memory tab- disable it completely.
3) Disable hiberfil.sys- cmd.exe => powercfg.exe / h off
4) Scan the computer with Malwarebytes, AdwCleaner, HitmanPro, Zemana
5) You were talking about Windows errors, so I suspect there are corrupted files => use the command: DISM / Online / Cleanup-Image / RestoreHealth, and sfc / scannow
6) Remove everything from autostart
7) Enter the registry: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SYSTEM \ CurrentControlSet \ Control \ Session Manager \ Power and select the HiperBootEnabled key - set it to 0,
8) Remove any optimizers (if you have one) and remove all Autostart entries (using CCleaner)

Since it is during reboot, maybe the problem is enabled hibernation.
Please try to turn it off.
Look at this:
https://www.ebe.pl/pelne-zamkniecie-systemu-windows-10/

@ matix72001
1 - it was there all the time
2 - I deleted
3 - turned off
4 - scanned more than once
5 - I used both commands, after it was finished there was a message that some errors were found in the files and they were fixed, but there are still errors in the event viewer
6 - removing all from autostart did nothing
7 - I set it up, as I guess, it turned off fast startup, so it booted up for 4 minutes when the computer was turned on normally
8 - the same as in point 6 - no effects

Due to the fact that the computer turned on for a long time after normal startup, I turned hiberfil.sys back on and set HiperBootEnabled to 1.

@ Tomequ123
I put both logs in the attachment.

@slvestr
I don't have this option at all. I only have Sleep and Lock on each of the plans.

Then take pictures of all the BIOS settings tabs: (most importantly BOOT, POWER, CONFIGURATION, ADVANCED), maybe there are some hidden options responsible for quick start.
I did not read the active threat in the logs as well, so the virus infection is gone.
Perhaps the problem is with either old drivers or damaged system files. I used to have that the system had damaged files and woke up quite a long time. At the beginning try to update them, if that doesn't help, start Windows in safe mode. If in safe mode it also turns on for a long time. The format awaits you, and if it fails, the hardware is probably to blame.

@ Tomequ123 Only these things do not affect the system boot, uninstalling the antivirus program will not do anything, and neither will CCleaner itself. It is better to remove all tasks from the schedule and autostart, update the drivers and then remove unnecessary programs: for example: ARPR, GPUTWEAK. There is no trace of malware or other suspicious add-ons in its logs. AVG itself is lightweight as well, so it's definitely not the programs' fault. I would look for the fault on the side of the system, drivers or BIOS.

@ matix72001

In the attachment I put in actually relevant photos from UEFI. It seems to me that everything is fine as far as booting is concerned. Fast boot is set, there is also the Ultra fast boot option, probably, but from what I read, it is not recommended to run it with the W10 on board.

There is no virus infection at 100%, it has been scanned with many Malwarebytes etc. and it is completely clean. Unless there is something deep inside that even these programs cannot detect.

Windows gets up in safe mode just as long. Same @ Tomequ123 As for the clean boot I wrote about a few posts above - exactly the same is happening.

A few moments later:
I checked the drivers, updated any that were out of date.
I excluded everything unnecessary from the schedule of tasks. I have already thrown out what I did not need from the autostart.
Windows 1806 was installed, I updated it to version 1903 and checked the consistency of the system files again.

The problem seems to be resolved. I don't know exactly which solution helped, because I did everything I could 'in one fell swoop'. Probably a system update. Possible like @ matix72001 you mentioned that some system files were corrupted and the system update simply repaired or replaced them.

The system normally wakes up in 6-7 seconds and when it is 'restarted' in 16-18 seconds, so everything normal.

Anyway, I will let you know in a few days if everything is alright or if the problem is solved only temporarily.
Thanks for your help and all suggestions :)

After a few days of use, no problems. Everything normal, as it should be. Topic to be closed, thank you all for your help