Ok, so this has been happening a long time, but I've finally decided to get around to doing something about it.
My daily driver machine is pretty long in the tooth these days, but it shouldn't be experiencing slowness like this, and it didn't used to.
So gear-wise, it's an i5 quad core, 3.4Ghz, 16GB memory. Pretty standard. I have 2 SSDs in it, both Samsung 840s. One is a 500GB with Windows, the other is 240GB with Linux Mint on it. When I put Mint on, I think this was the start of my issues, as I think I had to switch the UEFI settings to enable CSM. End result here is I ended up with GRUB managing which OS I boot into. I suspect this is when my long boot time troubles started, but I really don't recall. Oh..Asus motherboard.
So symptoms. First up, very long time to boot. Or rather, it seems like a long time to get past the BIOS/UEFI load. It's probably a close to a minute before GRUB shows up. Once it does, if I select Windows, I'll sit at the initial Windows load screen for around a minute (the screen with the blue Windows logo). Importantly, the spinner at the bottom doesn't show up for this time. Once it does, Windows starts in a few seconds. The task manager "Last BIOS Time" agrees with this, it's basically always at 63 seconds. I know it wasn't this slow always because I used to shut the machine down, because startup was so fast, it didn't matter. Now, I hate restarts because of that.
Other symptoms:
Disk management loads right away, but connecting to the virtual disk service takes minutes. Same with Diskpart. Opening explorer to "This PC" is super slow, with a progress bar at the top...all the disks show up, but it's like it's enumerating but taking forever. Disk access itself is fine, performance is fine. Right-click context menus on any disk other then C: are extremely slow, like 30 seconds to show up. For instance, if I insert a flash drive. But going into the drive and using it is fine. Just context menus take unreasonably long amounts of time to show up.
No errors in the event viewer anywhere. Just these obnoxious slow-downs. Something seems really off somewhere in my configuration, but I'm not sure what I did, and I haven't been able to undo it. I'm starting to lean towards trying to rip Linux back out and get rid of grub and see if I can just go back to secure boot enabled configurations.
Anyway, if anyone has any ideas of what's going on, I'd like to hear them!
My daily driver machine is pretty long in the tooth these days, but it shouldn't be experiencing slowness like this, and it didn't used to.
So gear-wise, it's an i5 quad core, 3.4Ghz, 16GB memory. Pretty standard. I have 2 SSDs in it, both Samsung 840s. One is a 500GB with Windows, the other is 240GB with Linux Mint on it. When I put Mint on, I think this was the start of my issues, as I think I had to switch the UEFI settings to enable CSM. End result here is I ended up with GRUB managing which OS I boot into. I suspect this is when my long boot time troubles started, but I really don't recall. Oh..Asus motherboard.
So symptoms. First up, very long time to boot. Or rather, it seems like a long time to get past the BIOS/UEFI load. It's probably a close to a minute before GRUB shows up. Once it does, if I select Windows, I'll sit at the initial Windows load screen for around a minute (the screen with the blue Windows logo). Importantly, the spinner at the bottom doesn't show up for this time. Once it does, Windows starts in a few seconds. The task manager "Last BIOS Time" agrees with this, it's basically always at 63 seconds. I know it wasn't this slow always because I used to shut the machine down, because startup was so fast, it didn't matter. Now, I hate restarts because of that.
Other symptoms:
Disk management loads right away, but connecting to the virtual disk service takes minutes. Same with Diskpart. Opening explorer to "This PC" is super slow, with a progress bar at the top...all the disks show up, but it's like it's enumerating but taking forever. Disk access itself is fine, performance is fine. Right-click context menus on any disk other then C: are extremely slow, like 30 seconds to show up. For instance, if I insert a flash drive. But going into the drive and using it is fine. Just context menus take unreasonably long amounts of time to show up.
No errors in the event viewer anywhere. Just these obnoxious slow-downs. Something seems really off somewhere in my configuration, but I'm not sure what I did, and I haven't been able to undo it. I'm starting to lean towards trying to rip Linux back out and get rid of grub and see if I can just go back to secure boot enabled configurations.
Anyway, if anyone has any ideas of what's going on, I'd like to hear them!
