I do not use XBMC so I cannot answer with respect to that. I can think of two obvious reasons someone might say turn fast boot off. One is if it makes it hard to press F2, and the other is since boot is probably already fast enough. I think on my NUC I have it off for those reasons (before I learned about the Power Button Menu, and even after I learned that since there is a fairly specific amount of time you have to hold the button). On my larger Intel motherboard (DZ77BH-55K), I keep fast boot off because the "current" version of that BIOS seems to have a bug which causes the power LED to blink when you have fast boot on (rather than power LED steady which is the expected behavior, like it does when fast boot is off - blinking is intended for indicating that the PC is in standby/sleep).
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