Intel Motherboards : Trouble with Ultra Fast Z170 OC Formula

Author: adabo
Subject: Trouble with Ultra Fast Z170 OC Formula
Posted: 27 Oct 2016 at 4:22am

Picked up the Z170 OC Formula last week. It's really a nice motherboard. The trouble I'm having is speeding up my boot up.

I have another computer with a Z77 Extreme9 with Ultra fast and the boot time to windows is ~3 seconds.

The confusing part is that the Z170 is using an M.2 950 Pro, which is significantly faster than the Intel SATA SSD on the Z77.

I created the Windows 10 USB installer using RUFUS set to UEFI mode. I installed Windows using the same USB to test both motherboards. I have both motherboards set to Ultra fast. The Z170 stays on the POST screen for about 7 seconds whereas the Z77 just flashes the POST screen in less than 1 second.

I'm just wondering if there's something I can do to tweak the new motherboard. I know a 14 second boot up time is not slow, but compared to the 3 second boot to Windows desktop on the Z77, that's really slow.

Thanks for reading, and any help is apprectiated.

P.S. I noticed in the Advanced Storage configuration in EUFI the M.2 drive does not show up. However I do see it in the NVMe menu.