Why is my PC taking forever to boot with an AK620 cooler?
Man, every time I launched the game, I had to sit there staring at the motherboard logo for 20 seconds. It was a total test of my patience. After some digging, it looked like the motherboard was having a 'handshake' delay with the PWM headers associated with the AK620, making the POST process drag on forever. I tried enabling 'Fast Boot' in Windows, but that's just a facade—the actual hardware initialization time didn't change at all, which was pretty laughable. I went deep into the BIOS, forced the boot order to NVMe first, and killed all the useless COM ports and redundant USB 2.0 headers. The boot log showed the time from power button to desktop dropped from 26 seconds to 11 seconds. I did accidentally disable my wireless mouse receiver in the process, but I fixed that by re-enabling specific USB power delivery. Chipset temps are steady at 38-44℃, and the fans are humming along at 1400-1600RPM. Exported the boot logs just to be sure.
