Slow Initial Boot Time on Windows 8

Hello Everyone,

I'm having a really hard time understanding why my Windows 8 boot time is so slow - I'm talking > 1 minute. I understand about how applications can slow down the boot time after the desktop loads, but I'm talking about before Windows even gets to the desktop and after it loads the BIOS. I put this rig together just recently:

Windows 8 - 64 Bit
AMD FX 6300
MSI 760GM-P23
Patriot Signature 8 GBs (2X4 Gbs)
750 GBs Toshiba Hard drive 7400 rpm

One thing I should mention: I did have Windows 7 installed previously on this hard drive and what I did was format the entire hard drive and installed Windows 8 onto it. I hope this helps. Greatly appreciate the help.

 

Thank you very much for getting back to me. I will do all of this when I get back to my desktop in the afternoon.

 

Ok, so as a control experiment, I timed how long it actually takes to boot.

No adjustments at all;
1 minute 13 seconds

No I went into the BIOS settings, and it was in this order originally:

1. 2.2 TB Infinity
2. CD/DVD
3. Hard drive

I couldn't figure out what the hell Infinity really does, but I read that it only supports Windows 7/64bit, which I don't have. So I went in to disable Infinity, but all it does is hang once it gets out of the POST data. So I now have it set up as:

1. 2.2 TB Infinity
2. Hard Drive
3. Disabled

I will get back to you and time this once more.

P.s. - There is an option to disable Infinity, but like I said it just hangs... any idea how to get rid of that to speed up my boot time?

Thanks!

 

Strange.. I now show a boot time with...

Adjusted setting as said before:

1 minute 43 seconds

I'm not even going to ask the Windows Gods..... Let me adjust to do a clean boot and remove non-essential peripherals.

 

OK! Well I have done the clean boot, adjust BIOS settings as before, and disconnected non-essentials. I now show a boot time:

1 minute 4 seconds

An improvement, but not that great at all. Any Ideas so far? By the way, I timed how long it takes for it to get to the Windows logo, and that takes:

38.8 Seconds

Also, there are no exclamation marks on the devices.

 

David, I will get back to you on this tomorrow afternoon as I am out of town. Yes, also it is a MSI motherboard. Is it normal for a MSI motherboard to take 38 seconds to get to the Windows Logo loading screen - I guess is another question in relating to this.

 

Thank you for that David. I think that may be the majority of the boot speed issue. It would still be nice if windows could start up in under 10 seconds, but I don't think that possible being the way Windows is built :-D I have the disk management screen shot below.