Windows 11 Lengthy Boot

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When I upgraded to Windows 11 recently, Windows no longer booted to the proper drive so I had to into the BIOS and select the Windows Boot Manager drive/partition. Now when it boots up in can take 45 seconds for the BIOS to start up. I assume it's looking for the boot drive, or there's something wrong with the boot drive. I think it has something to do with drive mapping.

When I go into Advanced option of WinRE, select Command line and execute a dir command for the C drive it shows my data drive. The D: drive has my Windows install. I've had a number of scary problems with my Windows 11 install so I really really don't want to touch anything unless I have expert guidance.

Thanks in advance for your help.

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Anonymous

2022-10-20T02:31:00+00:00

Definitely will check it out.
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Anonymous

2022-10-20T02:11:37+00:00

It's a trending issue in Windows 11, with wifi but also ethernet. So your graph sure looks like it might apply.
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2022-10-20T01:54:01+00:00

Ok - I'll look at that. I kinda lost track of the fact that if I pull out he ethernet cable my problem disappears. So - definitely related to network related activities and processes. The 73 second pulse, both the exact timing and the length of time in between seems important - but I don't why, and I an imagine even if other people experience something like this the timing would vary. So doing a search on 73 second performance pulses probably isn't going to get me anywhere.

I'll check out the ping thing.

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Anonymous

2022-10-19T22:57:47+00:00

Could be ping spikes which we see in Ethernet connections on Windows 10 and 11:

https://thegeekpage.com/ping-spikes-in-windows-...

https://internet-access-guide.com/ethernet-lag-...

https://conscioushacker.io/ethernet-lag-spikes/

https://www.reddit.com/r/GeForceNOW/comments/w8...

https://www.reddit.com/r/HomeNetworking/comment...

https://windowsreport.com/ethernet-spiking-task...

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2022-10-19T22:55:31+00:00

The link to process explorer info brings me to an index page by first letter of the blog as far as I can tell. I don't know what to look for.

Boot trace - what would I be looking for there? I could be wrong but this issue doesn't seem like a boot problem.

Also I believe that the ethernet stuff is a result of whatever else is going on and not the cause given that everything checked out with the card and driver.

A system or event trace might be useful to someone, but I don't have the expertise to know how to use it or what to even look for. I think we're running out of ideas and options.

In the PE info I saved I notice there was an RTSS third party process that was invoked via dllhost.dll during the event. But I think it was a victim as well because I removed it and the freeze still happens. Also the dllhost initiation for that has gone away as a result of the removal. I think the main reason for looking at dllhost in the first place was to make sure it was in the correct location and not a virus.
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