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This is because Ryzen is over hyped.
Also no BIOS update is going to change a 40sec boot time to 1sec, if you're counting from POST completion to login screen. If you're talking cold boot to settled Windows desktop at 40s, as I say I think that's a good number. There's an article on Tom's somewhere I think, or Anandtech maybe, where they pare every BIOS and Windows option they have right down to reduce boot time, that should give you guidance on the art of the possible. Finally, there are boot time analysis tools that tell you where the delays are in the Windows booting process, may be worth running one of those if you've not done so yet.
I'm running an MSI X470 Gaming Pro Carbon, and the drive is an Adata XPG SX8200 Pro 1TB. You've probably tried already, but if Sabrent has a disk utility it's worth running it to see if it detects anything awry. What do you count as your boot time, from power on to settled after Windows login? Or from BIOS/POST completion to Windows login screen, or something else? If it's the former then 40sec is not outlandish, if it's the latter then as I say for me it's around a second, the POST completes, the screen goes black, the Windows login comes up. It really is a "blink and you'll miss it" experience. In the past I have had Windows get unhappy if an update doesn't take properly and/or it keeps reconfiguring itself from legacy BIOS support to UEFI every boot, that can certainly take 40sec. As a last resort you can try refreshing Windows and then, if that doesn't help, reinstall. It really depends where this 40sec delay is occurring in the boot process.
I believe some of the previous bios versioin had slow boot times which the latest one supposedly fixes. I personally didn't get them but many others did so might be worth trying that first.
Many thanks for your reply very many threads on various forums like this, have tweaked where i can - hopefully it'll be improved with further bios updates ? https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/1122045-x570-boot-time/ https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=325793.0 am running a sabrent nvme on an msi x570 a-pro (latest bios update H.60), in the nvme slot too (crystal diskmark > 3000mb/s). reading around the issue, slow post, and boot seems to be a big issue with the latest ryzen generation. what motherboard are you running ?