AMD boot times?

I’ve been searching the answers as well as trying things. I can’t get below 30 seconds startup and normally hovering around 38 secs. Now on 970 pro raid 0. Gskill Trident 3600, 3950x. Disabled all non MS startup. Played with manual ram timings and speeds. Tried defaults, tried OC’s. Tried auto. Oh mobo Asus Crosshair 8 hero latest bios. Any thoughts?

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I have an Asus CH7 w/ 2700x and a RAID 0 nvme. I’d say my boot times are not great, but that’s mostly the memory training before posting. After that it’s pretty brisk.

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Yes I’ve read about that. One person said to dial in memory timings at lower clock speed, the user reported dramatic speed improvements. I tried and saw no difference.

I think @Chrislifts had a similar problem.

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This is not an apples to apples comparison but i thought you might find my boot times interesting as a comparison.

3800x
16gb gskill 3600
su800 ssd
x570 Aurous Master

Bios splash screen at 20 sec
usb devices light up at 28 sec
desktop fully loaded at 47 sec

But this is on Fedora 32 - so as I said not an apples to apples comparison.

is this a NVME or a sata drive
also I like to manually set the intial Page file size to 1024MB and expandable outwards

If thats @ me - its sata.

I also wonder if the number of hardware devices and usb devices impact boot times…

from my understanding UEFI mode does everything in parallel while the old style does things one at a time

I could just be completely wrong on that, I do like to disable Serial and parallel ports if I don’t use them

38 seconds might be as good as you get, might not be a speed thing but a interface and protocol thing

from my understanding NVME is to Sata as Sata was to PATA/IDE

Yeah the best I could get was 22 seconds. My 4th Gen i5 and 4th Gen i7 were about 3 seconds.

AMD packed in so many features that performance took a hit apparently.

Can’t say I’ve had any issues, takes about 8 seconds (at a guess, I haven’t timed it) to get to the desktop.

Using a Sabrent NVME drive and an R7 [email protected]. Mobo is some B350 MSI board I can’t remember the name of at the moment

38 seconds sounds insane. Maybe a dumb question, or something you’ve tried already, but have you had a dig around your BIOS? Or tried resetting it?

I did have that problem and a few very minor lags on boot when I did my last ryzen with G.Skills. I had manually set the OC with numbers on the chips themselves and boot were slower and would occasionally hang. I managed to fix the issue on one system by actually reading the timings in Bios for the xmp profile for 3600 speed. Along with the primary timings changes there was also some secondary changes. Once I manually put those in it took off and cut down my boot times. I had the same issue on bot a SATA m.2 and a NVMe m.2. One system on a x470 I had to lower the primary clock one tick and bam. problem solved. Hope it helps :slight_smile:

3700x here and I got xmp on and fast boot off, 13 second boot here with latest bios for my gigabyte x570 i

3700x, 3600CL18, Sabrent Rocket 512GB PCIe 3.0 here, with fastboot disabled, (because I need my PC to be turned off when it’s off goddammit!) my last BIOS timing took from Windows is 12 seconds.

I think there are some memory training issues + I think loading the RAID array takes some time. Maybe check if there are errors in the array to make sure that’s not slowing down your boot times too much.

Roughly 15 seconds cold boot to Ubuntu 20.04 login on a 3400G with an Aorus B450I Pro. Only thing I changed was the RAM speed from 2133 to 3200, but that did not speed up boot times like, at all.

I’ve tried both OS on Sata and OS on NVMe, made no difference. It’s weird because my Intel system boots up in about 20 seconds. I’m communicating with one of the Asus engineers and maybe something can be done. It seems like a bios issue.

Turn off anything called fast boot in the UEFI.

Despite the name, this makes SSDs slower for some reason as the feature was meant for HDDs.

Haven’t touched a thing other than ram timings. Took pretty much exactly 30 seconds just there.

3700x
X570
Sabrant rocket 512gb pcie4.
16gb 3600 gskill ripjawz

BIOS takes around 20seconds for me, but windows after that boots under 20seconds

Agree everything above 30 seconds is kinda terrible for a modern system i guess.
I mean even my old Bulldozer FX with a sata ssd does that faster.

The thing is, I don’t care.

  • I come in,
  • Press the power button,
  • Turn on my monitors,
  • Move the stuff off my chair,
  • Enter my password,
  • Sit down,
  • …and go.

It does not seem long at all. Sure like sub 10 is fun, I have that on my NUC with a 970 EVO I think… Its pretty quick. But its all super close and compact. But for that it takes like 2 minutes to plug everything in and set it all up because I am a weirdo.

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