[SSD] Patriot Torqx2 win7 Boot Times?

I am giving up on this patriot...... it was going at 15 sec boot.... and it went back to 50sec..... then xbmc freezes at boot from cold.... i have it in the startup folder with a 5 sec delay.... tried 10 sec.... 20 sec..... it's been giving me problems....

how can it go from 15 and then back to 50 ?

check with DHARMA, leave EDEN for a sec,
just to see if its a SSD thing or XBMC thing...

also, try this for me, it may sound weird,
but it worked for me,
i too, saw that my SSD wasnt booting as fast as before,
altho still faster then any regular drives,
i tried something and it worked.
sometimes, my SSD would take too much time on the welcome screen...
and this altho i set my htpc to boot directly into desktop no pass needed.

do this, take this 'show desktop' file i made here --> http://www4.zippyshare.com/v/95034692/file.html
and place it in your startup folder
then reboot and see if its any faster!
tell me the result, thx

(2012-04-15 08:52)Beer40oz Wrote:  I am giving up on this patriot...... it was going at 15 sec boot.... and it went back to 50sec..... then xbmc freezes at boot from cold.... i have it in the startup folder with a 5 sec delay.... tried 10 sec.... 20 sec..... it's been giving me problems....

Hold on beer.... Slow down!

I'm sure your settings have something to do with your issue not your drive. Please tell me that you saved an image of your desktop shortly after your first 15sec boot. If so, those settings should be preserved in your image. Just wipe the disk clean and then re-flash image and then try to boot. If you didn't save an image then you may have to load W7 again fresh.

I FOUND THE PROBLEM!

look here

(2012-04-15 18:54)Beer40oz Wrote:  I FOUND THE PROBLEM!

look here

+1

I tweaked the BIOS to switch the drive to AHCI mode, as well as the registry in windows ( per your and eskro's advice ).

At this point, I was booting in about 50s.

Changed the background from solid black to jpg.

Now, my htpc boots in about 20s.

Thank you so much Beer40oz and eskro for your help!

skippy, u installed SP1??

cuz im just thinking if SP1 contains this fix already,.,...

(2012-04-15 20:22)eskro Wrote:  skippy, u installed SP1??

cuz im just thinking if SP1 contains this fix already,.,...

How do you know? at least I figured out why!

(2012-04-15 20:22)eskro Wrote:  skippy, u installed SP1??

cuz im just thinking if SP1 contains this fix already,.,...

Yeah, I had SP1 installed previously. I don't think it helped any...

ahhh, nice to know skippy,
well i guess i have no choice,
i have to put that tweak in my ssd guide.
thanks alot for the hint beer40!