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Samsung 990 Pro Boot Up Time Issue

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Haider

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My PC in signature, I upgraded 1TB Kingston SSD to 2TB Samsung 990 Pro, i cloned the 1TB Kingston and it has been out of my PC. Everything is working brilliantly. About a month my daughter was having PC issue. My PC was switched off, I turned the PSU power switch to off and took the power cable to try on her PC. Then after about 20 minutes came back and plugged it into mine. Now it take about 4 minutes boot in to my PC.

Tried changing various BIOS setting and it seem to do nothing. Configured the launch of W11 boot loader on bootup so you can choose what OS loads - I only have 1 OS on there so I have a choice of 1. Did this to see how long it took for the BIOS to initialise and then bring Windows boot loader choice then once selected how long it took the OS to load.

From looking at the different parts the point from selecting the OS to Windows 11 login screen take the majority of the 3 mins 30s approx. After I select the OS the Monitor just is bank black screen then after a couple minutes the Windows logo - 4 blue rectangles with a black cross in the middle to mimic a window appears then after about another minutes the grey/white circle timer appears then 20s later the login screen. I've ran Windows update no change. Samsung Magician reports the drive as good. I swapped back to my Kingston SSD and it's fine, no change in BIOS settings...I don't think it's drive but the OS. Next I'm think I'm going to have to clone the drive again, to ID what is the issue. Anybody seen anything like this?

Thanks
H
 
Nope.

If your clone doesn't work...sounds like a good time to start with a fresh OS install.
 
Agreed with EarthDog that the safe bet is a fresh OS install.

If you want to try a couple command prompt commands in case it finds an issue with your OS first -- [note: I work in IT and these rarely work, but occasionally we all roll a Natural 20 and it fixes the issue]

Open Start, type: CMD
Right click CMD
Click Run as administrator

Type in at the prompt OR Copy and Paste these one at a time : (Hit enter after each)

Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /CheckHealth

Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /ScanHealth

Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth

Also run the System File Checker utility:
Open Start, type: CMD
Right click CMD
Click Run as administrator

At the Command Prompt, type: sfc /SCANNOW
This will check for any integrity violations

Restart your system
 
In the end I put the Kingston into the M2 slot connected to the chipset PCIe v3 x4 (lanes) as my OS drive, formatted the 990 Pro, will act as fast 2TB on the PCIe v4 x4 connected directly to the CPU to act as fast storage and a 2TB HDD on SATA port as general storage
 
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