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Long boot time is quite annoying

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Zenara25

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It is not the Windows part that is bothering me it is the long (what do you call it... 'post' time)

Takes about 1 minute for my motherboard bios (it finally does a beep) to start reading from my hard drive and start the windows boot process. What could be causing this?

Help please.
 
Make sure your hard drive is set to the first boot device (i.e don't put a CD-ROM or floppy before it). Also make sure memory test is set to Quick if possible, and first video device is set to AGP or PCI, whatever your video card is.
 
Boot order would have nothing to do with POST time.

I assume it's pausing a long time on the POST screen? You may have an IDE device specified in BIOS that's not connected and some mobos will continually try to initialize that device for a LONG time (older Dells were notorious for this - it was a couple of minutes) before timing out.

Go into the BIOS menu and make sure any IDE channels you KNOW are not connected to anything to NONE and the mobo won't waste time trying to detect devices on them. Set all other channels to AUTO.

You also want to make sure that it's not doing a full memory diagnostic on POST. There should be a BIOS setting called "Fast POST" or "Disable Memory Check" or something like that.

Another possibility is that it's trying to boot from the Network card (I doubt it because you say the long pause is BEFORE the beep). If it was doing this, you'd see something on the screen during the boot process saying it was trying to load from the network.

Hope this helps...
 
I'm using onboard video and it is set to onboard as the first choice and again the hard drive is first to boot. Will check tomorrow on the memory (I did look in the bios earlier briefly and didn't see any options for faster boot up including memory) and any additional ide devices. Although I have a hard drive on the primary channel and a cdrw and dvd (2 seperate drives) on the secondary.
 
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