Can I speed up the boot process on a Galax B360M-M.2 for Nioh?
Man, every time I launched the game, I was staring at the motherboard logo for a solid 25 seconds. It was like a test of patience. Analyzing the boot logs showed that the Galax B360M-M.2 memory training mechanism was rescanning every single slot on every cold boot, which is just ridiculous. I tried enabling Fast Boot in Windows, but that's just a band-aid; the actual hardware POST time didn't budge. I dove into the deep BIOS settings, forced the boot order to NVMe first, and disabled every unnecessary COM port and redundant USB 3.0 header. The time from hitting the power button to hitting the desktop dropped from 32 seconds to 14 seconds. I did hit a snag where my wireless card stopped working after the first pass, but I fixed it by re-enabling a specific PCIe lane in the BIOS. Chipset temps are sitting at 38-44℃, and fans are humming along at 1400-1600RPM. Everything is finally snappy.
