Asrock AB350 Pro4, slow boot

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   I've bought a second hand computer (see spec below). I upgraded memory to 32GB and installed a NVMe SSD and a CD player. The NVMe is plugged into the M.2 Ultra socket M2_1. The Nvidia card is plugged into the PCIe2 socket. Even before this upgrade it seemed to take longer than it should to get anything up on screen. It's a fresh validated, fully updated install of Windows 10 with hardly anything else installed and it's taking 35 secs to cold boot to a login screen which seems excessive to me. Shutdown is superfast.

From power on it takes 28 secs before anything appears on my screen and another 6 secs before the windows is up and ready to let me log in. So it looks like the computer is waiting for something to happen that never does?! What on earth is it doing? Is it trying to boot off the slave SSD first?

Operating System: Windows 10 Pro 64-bit
CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 1600 (Summit Ridge 14nm Technology)
RAM: 32.0GB Dual-Channel Unknown (16-17-17-35)
Motherboard: ASRock AB350 Pro4 (AM4)
Graphics: 2047MB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB (ZOTAC International)
Storage: 
  Slave: 223GB SanDisk SDSSDA240G (SATA (SSD))
  Boot: 476GB Sabrent NVMe PCIe M.2 2280 (Unknown (SSD))
Optical Drives:     ASUS DRW-24D5MT
Audio: NVIDIA High Definition Audio

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	I've bought a second hand computer (see spec below). I upgraded memory to 32GB and installed a NVMe SSD and a CD player. The NVMe is plugged into the M.2 Ultra socket M2_1. The Nvidia card is plugged into the PCIe2 socket. Even before this upgrade it seemed to take longer than it should to get anything up on screen. It's a fresh validated, fully updated install of Windows 10 with hardly anything else installed and it's taking 35 secs to cold boot to a login screen which seems excessive to me. Shutdown is superfast. From power on it takes 28 secs before anything appears on my screen and another 6 secs before the windows is up and ready to let me log in. So it looks like the computer is waiting for something to happen that never does?! What on earth is it doing? Is it trying to boot off the slave SSD first? Operating System: Windows 10 Pro 64-bit CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 1600 (Summit Ridge 14nm Technology) RAM: 32.0GB Dual-Channel Unknown (16-17-17-35) Motherboard: ASRock AB350 Pro4 (AM4) Graphics: 2047MB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB (ZOTAC International) Storage: Slave: 223GB SanDisk SDSSDA240G (SATA (SSD)) Boot: 476GB Sabrent NVMe PCIe M.2 2280 (Unknown (SSD)) Optical Drives: ASUS DRW-24D5MT Audio: NVIDIA High Definition Audio