Ive recently undergone a huge hardware change and am currently experience what I regard as slow boot times after post.
Firstly my old bootable c: was a Seagate Barracuda 7200, my old cpu an i7 920, and my old mobo was a GA-EX58-UD3R (rev 1.6)
I upgraded my cpu to a 990x and more recently CLONED my C: to the new revo350 which became my bootable c:
I noticed a drastic improvement AFTER POST regarding boot time
Now most recently I upgraded my mobo to a GA-X58A-UD (rev 2.0) and as noted by toms hardware when installing a new mobo you can expect to come across issues - windows needed re-authenticating due to detecting hardware changes but aside from that it booted fine
sadly my boot times after post after around 1:20 compared with previously around 20secs (prior to a motherboard swap) - either way this is significantly longer than what I was expecting.. considering ive come from an old 7220 spinning drive... but once in windows programs boot instantaneously
All my drivers/updates are all up to date along with a recent defrag and disk clean up but to no avail
1) is there any way to increase POST boot time? (ive gone into bios and ensured 'fast boot' and hard drive delay is set to 0 seconds to little avail)does POST boot time increased loads with newer motherboards as I appreciated im still on a 1366 eol socket (As a side note ive noticed part of the post time is the revodrive being detected and pressing 'space to continue' is this normal?
2) is there a way anyone can think of: (ASIDE from a fresh install of windows - which right now due to software limitations I cant afford (time wise) to do and re-install) to increase windows boot time after POST
3) so I can compare... roughly what kind of boot times are people experiencing with this drive please (im intrigued, both including POST and excluding POST time)
Windows 7 Professional 64 bit service pack 1
32 gb ram
Intel i7 990x
Mobo: GA-X58A-UD (rev 2.0)
4) Revodrive 350 480gb (interstingly windows only detects this is a 447gb drive is this correct please? )
Firmware: 2.5
Bios update: 1.6.4
5) Driver: One thing I noticed is the revo350 downloads say the current driver version is 2.0.0.479 but the actual subsequent downloaded file is called OCZ10xx64.msi - is this correct?
6) Parkdake test:
663MByte/sec seq. write
794 MByte/sec seq. read
I was assuming speeds would be closer to as advertised?
I have many questions any help would be greatly appreciated
many many thanks to anyone able to take the time to respond to any of the points mentioned
dan