[U410] Boot/Shut Down/Sleep/Hibernate taking ages

As the title says, my Ideapad U410 takes really long on some of the most basic tasks around. And I have no idea why. I've had this laptop for a few months and it works fine, except for poor wifi (discussed elsewhere) and these issues. However, until about a week ago it would take about 5 minutes for it to go to sleep. Now it won't do that at all.
What I do know is that:
It sometimes throws errors about Intel Rapid Start Technology not being enabled. However, I can't choose to enable it in the BIOS, saying there's some sort of problem, nor can I reinstall it, as the installer tells me my laptop doesn't meet the system requirements. It stopped throwing these errors about at the same time it stopped going to sleep whatsoever.
When the laptop boots up, it hangs for 5-8 minutes on the white Lenovo logo + black background. Once it gets past that it's booted up in mere seconds. Maybe someone can tell me what exactly the computer's supposed to be doing while displaying this splash screen.
When the laptop shuts down, it hangs for about the same time in windows 8, which tells me it is "shutting down". When it goes to sleep it simply turns off the screen and remains on. For forever it seems. First time this happened I wasn't aware it was still on, so it also overheated in my bag. Seems like it's still working the same, though.
I've also read some instructions on enabling iRTS. However, no matter which set of steps I follow, I get into some sort of problem. My SSD for example won't show up in cmd's DISKPART. Yet I can see and access it from Windows Explorer. In the same sense I can see iRTS in the bios, but I can't choose to enable it. And I'm not even sure iRTS is the problem here! It's simply the only error I get thus the only lead for me to go on.
Any help at all would be greatly appreciated! When I bought this laptop I was told it's supposed to be fast and right now it's not.

Yes and no. Booting up still takes just as long, but I got the sleeping issues resolved a long time ago. Since I barely ever shut the laptop off I figured the risks outweighed the benefits as for getting the SSD and/or bootup problems resolved, so I gave up on that eventually.
For me the sleeping problems were related to intel rapid storage technology, I seem to recall that once I got rid of that sleeping started working fine. But again, I resolved this a long time ago and don't fully remember.

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