- Mar 27, 2016
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Heya 
I've posted already before here a question regarding a slow startup of Windows 10 on my Dell XPS 15 after which I updated all drivers, ran a series of tests and finally performed a fresh install of Windows 10. My systems runs quite well and I have no complaints when it is running, but startup stays rather slow with +/- 20 seconds from power on to Windows login screen.
Before I did a fresh install of Windows, my BIOS time was around 12 seconds. Now, it has gone up to almost 17. I read in several fora that BIOS should be around maytbe 3-5 seconds which is a huge difference. I have fast boot enabled, disabled all startup processes that have a high impact on startup and have set hardware checks in BIOS to 'minimum'. I also ran a full virus scan and a Malware scan using MalwareBytes, both returning without any fault. Another thing I tried is running Dell system diagnostics which gives me the following error:
Transformation and lighting stress test cannot run --> wrt my GeForce 960M. The rest is all fine and when I check if the 960M performs correctly in device manager it says it works correctly.
Is there anything I address that is most likely the cause of the slow BIOS time?
Hereby some more information on my system:
Dell XPS 15 9550 laptop
GTX 960M (+on board Intel graphics with Skylake)
i5 6300HQ quadcore @ 2.3GHZ
16gb RAM
Operating system: Windows 10
NVMe Samsung SSD 950 256GB --> Windows is installed on this drive
1TB internal drive
Thanks in advance
I've posted already before here a question regarding a slow startup of Windows 10 on my Dell XPS 15 after which I updated all drivers, ran a series of tests and finally performed a fresh install of Windows 10. My systems runs quite well and I have no complaints when it is running, but startup stays rather slow with +/- 20 seconds from power on to Windows login screen.
Before I did a fresh install of Windows, my BIOS time was around 12 seconds. Now, it has gone up to almost 17. I read in several fora that BIOS should be around maytbe 3-5 seconds which is a huge difference. I have fast boot enabled, disabled all startup processes that have a high impact on startup and have set hardware checks in BIOS to 'minimum'. I also ran a full virus scan and a Malware scan using MalwareBytes, both returning without any fault. Another thing I tried is running Dell system diagnostics which gives me the following error:
Transformation and lighting stress test cannot run --> wrt my GeForce 960M. The rest is all fine and when I check if the 960M performs correctly in device manager it says it works correctly.
Is there anything I address that is most likely the cause of the slow BIOS time?
Hereby some more information on my system:
Dell XPS 15 9550 laptop
GTX 960M (+on board Intel graphics with Skylake)
i5 6300HQ quadcore @ 2.3GHZ
16gb RAM
Operating system: Windows 10
NVMe Samsung SSD 950 256GB --> Windows is installed on this drive
1TB internal drive
Thanks in advance
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