Gigabyte GA-Z170X-GAMING 7 - 20 plus second boot time

[Jimlad]

Hi all,

i have tried many things but sadly cannot get my pc to boot from cold in under 20 - 25 seconds.  I bugs me that my 7 year old laptop boots quicker

from turning the pc on i get around 9 seconds of blackness before i see the windows logo, then from that point it takes around 10 seconds to get into windows.  If i boot from within the bios it is 10 seconds and in - which is what it should be from hitting the power button.  i have all the fast boot stuff turned on.. spec below

Phanteks Enthoo Evolv ATX Satin Black
Gigabyte GA-Z170X-GAMING 7
Intel I7 6700K Skylake @ 4.5
Corsair Vengeance LPX Black 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 3200MHz
GeForce GTX 1070 Founders Edition
Samsung SM951 256GB M.2 PCI-e NVMe SSD
Western Digital Caviar Black 3TB
Corsair RMi Series RM850i ATX Power Supply
Corsair Hydro Series H110i

[dmdilks]

What OS you using if it windows 7 yes that is right. If I is windows 10 how did yo setup bios to boot UEFI and windows 8/10 ?

[Elsie]

I don't think you're going to get any/much quicker than that. Mine was taking over 40 seconds to boot into W10 from cold using (pretty much) similar kit to you:

• Gigabyte GA-Z170X-GAMING 7
  Intel I5 6600K Skylake @ 4.1
  Corsair 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4
  Samsung 950 Pro  256GB M.2 PCI-e NVMe SSD   

This was driving me nuts - but it was because I had installed W10 on the 950 Pro M.2 in Legacy mode in the BIOS. When done via UEFI (as it should be), it boots in around 20 seconds. OK, it's not uber fast but compared to what it was I am very happy. Have a look at the video link below which shows my cold boot difference between Legacy and UEFI.

https://youtu.be/1Jjf6KZIiLQ