(AM1H-ITX) Slow boot with SSD

How much of that 35-45 seconds is taken up by the Post process? I am assuming not much given you are concerned that boot times are too slow for a system booting from SSD.  

To test the performance of you SSDs you could use

AS SSD Benchmark and post up a screenshot of the results.

The Athlon 5350 is an awesome little low power CPU, I was sorely tempted to build an ITX system around one myself when they came out. What you do have to bare in mind though is that they are a low power solution and not designed for performance. My system with a Pentium G3258, 8gb (2x4gb) DDR3 1600 (@1400mhz) with a PNY optima 240gb SSD boots in about 20 - 30 seconds using fast boot so your numbers don't seem all that bad from where I sit. 

Bare in mind that post times can vary widely from one motherboard platform to the next depending on such things as chipset, number of features that need to be initialized at post etc. While 45 seconds is a little on the high side for an SSD based system it means very little if say 15 seconds of that is taken up by post.

is the driver im using ok?   ive seen other screens shots of evos using a different one then mine has listed?

Im tempted to use the asrock instant boot utility.  it works well, but it has some issues with running software on startup, this build is for an NESPC, so ideally it would boot right into the emulator, which it doesnt seem to do even though without instant boot i can get it to run on startup.

here are the photos of the project start to finish if you are interested:  https://s89.photobucket.com/user/jamaster14/library/NESPC%20Project?sort=3&page=1

And here are a couple of the finished product

I'll try that magician software, thanks for the link.

As far as startup, i tried a couple methods:

1)  added a key under ...\currentversion\run in the registry to get the context menu item in msconfig.  then checked it off.  it runs at startup with isntant boot disabled, but not instant boot

2)  I shelled windows, and had the system boot to hyperspin.exe (my emulation front end) instead of explorer.exe.  which works great booting normally, but when trying to run on instant boot, it never takes... instant boot will shut down, reboot, but then never shutdown the second time.  i guess it needs explorer to be able to run tis course?

Ideally, since its an NES PC id like it to boot into the front end as quick as possible.  if i can get the boot time in the 20 second range that would be great.  i can changed the windows splash screens and logon screens to nintendo stuff but 45 seconds still kind of kills the effect.  

If i can get instant boot to work, where it will power on and immedietly start up hyperspin, that would be the best case.  

thanks for the responses,if you have any other ideas on the best route to do this id love to hear it

i think ill just run the magician thing and then just live with the 40 seconds or so.  if anyone else has any ideas on how to speed it up, im all ears. 

i could go windows 8, but the front end and emulation im running likes windows 7 better and that part takes precedence over boot time.