I have Windows 7 on a Z390 motherboard with all drivers working thanks to this website. However, the system boots up very slowly for some reason, it spends a very long time on the “Windows is starting” screen and even safe mode takes way longer than it should, when loading into safe mode, the list of drivers is loading extremely slowly and it takes like a minute to actually boot compared to 10 seconds on my older PC. The system seems to perform really badly before it actually gets into the OS. Another thing that really bothers me is that the Windows loading screen says “Windows is starting” in English instead of in my installed language which just doesn’t make sense, Windows just acts really weird in general before it boots up and it doesn’t really make sense.
Could this have anything to do with the drivers or that I installed Windows wrong? I have even tried installing it on two seperate hard drives, switching from legacy to UEFI etc. I don’t understand this. Does anyone have a clue what could be wrong here?
Have you tried checking your HDD’s health?
I have installed it on two different SSDs and both have the same problem, Windows 10 however doesn’t have the same problem, it’s only on Windows 7.
Do you have this problem while connected to a network? I experienced this issue while connected to my router where I also have a HP printer wireless connected. The same with shutting down. If I turned off the printer everything went fine.
If not I guess you could try disabling standard vga and boot fully in uefi without csm or legacy. But this only after you install the gpu driver.
on Windows 7
I have more or less the same issue in a Ryzen plattform. I sysprep the system before to build the new AM4 system, and I use an Crucial NVME ssd. UEFI boots fast, in CSM mode, the slidding screen after "starting windows" screen dissapears fastly, but black screen delays a little more time, than old system configuration in AM3+ plattform. I tuned msconfig box, also I installed Advanced System Care software, and optimize system, but no solution obtained (So, I remove ASC software)
On the other side, I have another AM4 system, also sysprep before adapt to AM4, but in this case, I had no delay and retard from booting my Windows 7 x64.
Did you ever find a solution to this? I figured the problem was that my motherboard doesn’t have an option to enable CSM, but I don’t know for sure. The boot is still extremely slow though.