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Just something to try, if you feel so inclined, since I have been having alot of problems with my 1tb SX8200 Pro in the 3rd M2P slot:
You can try to move your SX8200 Pro to the first or 2nd M2 slot and boot again, leaving the 3rd slot empty. See if that helps at all possibly.
May be a PITA though, since you'd most likely have to remove your GPU to do it, but just something to try if all else fails.
Thanks for your suggestion. Yes it would be a bit of a nightmare. Reaching the tab to pop the GPU out is a bit of a pain with the Noctua NH-D15S! Might be worth a try though. I tried disconnecting my SATA drives (as verbose indicated it was hanging at something to do with Disk3s2) but still got the standard boot time of ~35 seconds. This is so weird!
Maybe the best thing to do is just swap their names, and have the Adata as the backup
Edit: Removed the GPU, moved both M.2 drives up a slot (Windows 10 in the 1st slot, MacOS in the 2nd) and rebooted. Boot time still the same. As a side note, GPU still reads at x8 even though its been reseated - it seems I can't get it to run at x16 no matter what. Last week when I cold booted in the morning two days in a row, it was x16 in BIOS, then x8 once I'd loaded MacOS or Windows. Now its just x8 all the time. Absolutely stumped by all this!
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