K8V AMD 64 3400+ BOOT SPEED SLOW

[filboid42]

Hi,

I have recently put together a new system. And it wasn't cheap. $2800 actually.
The specs are:

ASUS K8V DELUXE (updated to latest bios)
AMD 64 3400+ CPU
2gb of CORSAIR XMS DDR RAM (2 x 1gb stiks)

2 x 120gb SATA DIAMONDMAX MAXTOR DRIVES
(using promise controler in IDE mode not a RAID set up, I should note that I would have used them on the IDE ports but they were SATA drives so I had to do it this way.)

ANTEC TRUE 550 PS
COOLERMASTER ATCS CASE w\4 fans
RADEON 9800 XT 256DDR Graphics card.
CREATIVE AUDIGY

My problem is that it takes over 1 minute to boot up. This machine is decked out to the max and when I boot up it sits at the ASUS MOBO LOGO screen for over 30 secs. What in tarnation is it doing?

My gal just bought a COMPAQ system and that thing boots up in seconds I feel cheated. I am sure it is a setting in the bios but I am not sure. I tried to set the TURBO mode but it would hang the sytem at boot so I went to standard. I increased the FSB to 215 abd the sys is stable and really fast. I also set the DDR RAM to limit and DDR 400.

Can anyone tell me what the heck I am doing wrong to get this thing booting faster?

 

[Peter]

Turn Quiet Boot off and see for yourself what it's doing.

 

[Viper96720]

Disable anything your not using. Like the via sata controller, on board sound, lan, etc....

 

[filboid42]

I will try turning off quiet boot function.

I also tried disabling all I could find but the VIA sata controler I could not identify.
Any thoughts?

 

[mechBgon]

Yeah, it's not a very fast-booting board. Not a problem if you don't turn it off

<--- (runs his 24/7)

Look on page 4-23 of your manual and make sure the following two items are disabled:
[*]OnBoard LAN Boot ROM (unless you want it to try using your network adapter as a bootable device )
[*]OnChip SATA Boot ROM (this is the VIA SATA controller)

 

[Peter]

Put the SATA drives onto the chipset's SATA channels. That's faster than the Promise PCI controller, saves boot time, and gets rid of redundant equipment.

 

[Viper96720]

The board is kind of slow booting. I got one using one sata drive on the via controller. Even when shutting down it takes awhile. I leave mine on most of the time try hibernating see if it comes back up faster.

 

[filboid42]

Ok here is what I have done since my first post.

1. I disabled the VIA sata. (maybe I should try using the onboard VIA sata vs the onboard promise only reason I used promise is that one is on sata pri 1-2 input on the mobo plus I have read that he VIA was less stable)

2. I disabled quick boot to see what was happ. Then I enabled it after I still could not figure out why it goes into a dormant state during boot for about 30 secs.

When it goes into this dormant state or what looks like a blackscreen it just sits there I dont hear a drive spinning etc. After it pulls out of that coma the lady says "Power up boot test completed now booting from OS"

I suppose I can live with this because after overclocking slightly this thing is screamin fast once up and running.
I am just annoyed the a computer that costs $900 and has half the ram (cheap stuff) boots up 10 times faster that mine.
One other thing I do notice is that my monitor shuts down and goes into a power save mode for a few seconds just before the windows logon screen comes up and tweakui kicks it in the butt.

 

[mechBgon]

Are you using the onboard network adapter? If not, disable that too.

 

[filboid42]

Yep I am using the onboard lan.

 

[damonpip]

Turn on fast POST if it is an option.