Very slow boot up on Optimus V 13'3

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jsimenko

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Hi

I have a problem with my optimus V. From the start when i push the power button and to windows it takes 54 seconds. I have windows 7 ultimate 64x on SSD SanDisk ultra plus 256GB.

Laptop takes 40 seconds to come by the first phase - to pass by the pc specialist logo and then takes the rest 14 seconds to boot up windows.

Especially the first phase is too long. My old Acer 5750g with 120gb SSD G.SKILL Phoenix takes only 22 seconds to boot up to windows.

Any suggestions how to speed up the booting sequence?
 
SpyderTracks

SpyderTracks

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I'd go into the bios and check that it's on ahci rather than ide of it even has that option, then check your boot order and make sure the ssd or os drive is set as primary. Also remove any dvd or usb stick you have in there.
 
mantadog

mantadog

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yeah, could be trying to boot from all sorts of places before it gets to the SSD, worth a try doing why spyder said.

other than that I cant think of any reason why it would take so long unless you are getting any other error messages. But all in all 1 minute isn't tooooooooooooooooo bad. I know what you saying though, shouldn't be doing it.
 
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jsimenko

Member
SpyderTracks and mantadog thanks for putting me in the right direction. Bios was the problem. The sata mode is AHCI, ssd put to primary, and it was still slow. For some time i lost my windows because i changed AHCI to raid :) Learned it the hard way.

The key to slow boot up was the uefi option. After I disabled it the boot up is as it should be for SSD 20 seconds ;)
 
SpyderTracks

SpyderTracks

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jsimenko said:
SpyderTracks and mantadog thanks for putting me in the right direction. Bios was the problem. The sata mode is AHCI, ssd put to primary, and it was still slow. For some time i lost my windows because i changed AHCI to raid :) Learned it the hard way.

The key to slow boot up was the uefi option. After I disabled it the boot up is as it should be for SSD 20 seconds ;)
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Glad you got it sorted, what's your boot time now?
 
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LFFPicard

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That's interesting, as my desktop has always taken time to boot up, it cycles the post a few times, checking the Intel raid manager then the Marvell one before even starting windows.
I never really looked into speeding it up as I hardly restart/turn off my PC anyway.

What exactly did you do?
 
SpyderTracks

SpyderTracks

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LFFPicard said:
That's interesting, as my desktop has always taken time to boot up, it cycles the post a few times, checking the Intel raid manager then the Marvell one before even starting windows.
I never really looked into speeding it up as I hardly restart/turn off my PC anyway.

What exactly did you do?
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If you go into the bios, there's a section boot options and in there there should be a boot order setup. Usually it's something like cd/dvd, external drive, os drive. Sometimes it'll be set up with totally irrelevant ones before the boot drive, especially if this is looking over the network for the boot instructions, this'll take some time. If you initially set the actual boot disk as the first option, then you can add the ones you'd like before hand.

Also, on desktops, there's usually the option "quick boot" where it'll bypass the memtest and some other things which increases post speed.
 
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LFFPicard

Godlike
Yeah I got all that set since the start, boot order and quick boot is not the issue. Maybe I am misunderstanding the solution but from what I read:

jsimenko said:
The key to slow boot up was the uefi option. After I disabled it the boot up is as it should be for SSD 20 seconds ;)
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Maybe I am reading it wrong but that sound sot me there is a option to turn off the uefi interface therefore for making the boot faster.

I don't know, maybe I will have another look at it, its not massively important as as I say I hardly reboot or turn off the PC anyway.
 
SpyderTracks

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LFFPicard said:
Yeah I got all that set since the start, boot order and quick boot is not the issue. Maybe I am misunderstanding the solution but from what I read:



Maybe I am reading it wrong but that sound sot me there is a option to turn off the uefi interface therefore for making the boot faster.

I don't know, maybe I will have another look at it, its not massively important as as I say I hardly reboot or turn off the PC anyway.
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The UEFI is a boot option. On the laptops the bios is usually set to UEFI boot as the first 2 options which means it's looking for a network boot manager.
 
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