The Notebook Review forums were hosted by TechTarget, who shut down them down on January 31, 2022. This static read-only archive was pulled by NBR forum users between January 20 and January 31, 2022, in an effort to make sure that the valuable technical information that had been posted on the forums is preserved. For current discussions, many NBR forum users moved over to NotebookTalk.net after the shutdown.
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.

    SSD not performing on startup

    Discussion in 'Alienware M15x' started by Timmay333333, Feb 6, 2012.

  1. Timmay333333

    Timmay333333 Newbie

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    2
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    5
    So i recently bought and Installed a corsair force GT 240Gig SSD. The drive seems to be running fine but starting up my computer now takes 1min 43 secs from the bios window to login to windows. Before with the Samsung 500gig 7200rpm drive it only took 30secs. I think it has to do with the intel drivers but was just wondering if anyone else had this same problem. I followed the Thread on a new windows install and have been reading around the threads but I havent seen anything on this. :confused:
     
    Timmay333333, Feb 6, 2012
    #1
  2. taylrjones

    taylrjones Notebook Consultant

    Reputations:
    51
    Messages:
    237
    Likes Received:
    3
    Trophy Points:
    31
    Try resetting your bios to defaults, then make sure the HDD is the first boot option and disable the others.

    Also, turning off the boot animation should help a little.
     
    taylrjones, Feb 7, 2012
    #2
  3. Mexic00ls

    Mexic00ls Notebook Deity

    Reputations:
    563
    Messages:
    857
    Likes Received:
    23
    Trophy Points:
    31
    Did u preform a fresh install or did you clone your hdd drive over
     
    Mexic00ls, Feb 7, 2012
    #3
  4. Timmay333333

    Timmay333333 Newbie

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    2
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    5
    wow, thank you taylrjones! I was stressing out that I had gotten a bad drive or that i had done the install wrong. I reset the bios to default and boot time are now around 20seconds! very nice! just out of curiosity, do you know why that worked?
     
    Timmay333333, Feb 8, 2012
    #4