How to reduce POST time on ASRock Z370M Pro4 for Destiny 2?
Man, every time I launched the game, I'd be staring at the motherboard logo for 30 seconds—it was a total test of my patience. Analysis showed the ASRock Z370M Pro4 memory training was scanning every single slot on every cold boot, which is just overkill. I tried enabling Fast Boot in Windows, but that's just a facade; the actual hardware POST time didn't budge. I went deep into the BIOS, forced the boot order to NVMe priority, and disabled all the useless serial COM ports and redundant USB 2.0 headers. My boot logs showed the time from power-on to desktop dropped from 35 seconds to 16 seconds. I actually broke my old printer's connection at first, but I fixed that by re-enabling a specific USB power setting. Chipset temps are a cool 35-41℃. I exported the boot logs to archive the timing data, and it's finally snappy.
