Fixing disk read delays on Galax B760M D4 Wi-Fi?
Every time I launched the game, the loading bar would just freeze at 85% for twenty seconds. It was an agonizing wait. Using a disk analyzer, I found the Galax B760M D4's M.2 slot was choking on small random files, with speeds swinging wildly between 15MB/s and 450MB/s. I tried disabling Fast Startup in Windows, but that actually added 8 seconds to the boot and didn't fix the hang—total dead end. I grabbed the latest BIOS patch from the official site, flashed it, and enabled the NVMe Fast Boot protocol. According to the boot logs, the resource load time dropped from 42s to 13s, and the freezing stopped completely. I almost bricked it because the CMOS battery was dying and I lost my settings, but a new battery solved that. SSD temps are 38-45℃. The boot sequence is finally optimized.
