How to solve boot issues for ASUS B760M-PLUS WIFI in Silksong?
Every time I launched the game, the loading bar would just hang at 90% for twenty seconds, which is an agonizing way to start a session. Using a disk analyzer, I found the M.2 slot on my ASUS B760M-PLUS was hitting severe I/O queue congestion, with read speeds swinging wildly between 10MB/s and 400MB/s. I tried disabling Windows Fast Startup, but that actually added 10 seconds to the boot time and didn't stop the freeze—I knew then it was a firmware issue. I grabbed the latest BIOS from the official site, flashed it, and enabled the NVMe Fast Boot protocol in the UEFI. The boot logs showed resource loading dropping from 40 seconds to 12 seconds. I almost bricked the board when the power flickered during the flash, and I had to pull the CMOS battery to get it back, but it worked. SSD temps are now a cool 35-42℃. The whole boot flow is finally streamlined.
