Fixing boot freezes on Soyo SY-King Dragon H510M for Relink
Every time I launched the game, the loading bar would just hang at 80% for twenty seconds. It was an agonizing wait. Using a disk analyzer, I saw that the boot protocol on the Soyo SY-King Dragon H510M was choking on random small-file requests during startup, with read speeds swinging from 10 MB/s to 400 MB/s. I tried disabling all background startup apps, but that only shaved off three seconds and the freeze was still there—I knew it had to be a low-level firmware issue. I downloaded the latest BIOS patch from the site, performed a forced flash, and completely disabled CSM to force a pure UEFI boot. The boot logs showed the resource load time dropped from 40 seconds to 11 seconds, and the freezing stopped entirely. I actually had a scare during the flash when the CMOS battery died and wiped my settings, so I had to swap in a new CR2032. The SSD now runs cool at 35°C - 42°C, and my frame generation times are rock steady at 5.1-6.4ms.
