GA-990FXA Slow To Boot

[tomgraz]

I've always had this problem and would always step away when I turned on my computer.  It takes almost 5 minutes to boot to Windows 7.  It takes 30 seconds before it begins to POST. 

I just did a fresh Windows re-load from scratch on a SATA2 spindle hard drive.  No slowness at all.  Everything looked really good.  I made a backup image, removed the spindle drive and installed a solid state drive (SSD).  The restored image works fine, but now the computer is back to slow booting.  I did a Google search and see this has been a problem for others.  But, what I was reading was quite old.  Is there any up to date info I can be pointed to?  Maybe a topic that has already covered this question?

Thanks in advance,

Tom

[AgentFXA]

Perhaps install W7 on the SSD instead of using a W7 image from a different HDD?

I am using your mobo with two SSHDs and it boots to desktop within 30 seconds (W7x64)

[professor_jonny]

I've always had this problem and would always step away when I turned on my computer.  It takes almost 5 minutes to boot to Windows 7.  It takes 30 seconds before it begins to POST. 

I had the same problem when I ugraded my pc with a ssd and used the data transfer tool with my Samsung 850evo.

I did a clean install and problem went away.

but I suspect you could also have a hdd with smart errors or a dodgy sata cable.