Strange boot process

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My computer has a really strange boot process. From a cold start, it will start up and spin all the fans at max voltage/speed with nothing on the screen and then it will shut off again, and then start up again into a normal boot. While it's not that big of a deal, it really adds like 10-15 seconds extra to my cold start boot up time. It doesn't do this when waking up from sleep or rebooting. Anyone have any ideas why it does this?

System in question is the one listed in my sig.

 

[Fayd]

My computer has a really strange boot process. From a cold start, it will start up and spin all the fans at max voltage/speed with nothing on the screen and then it will shut off again, and then start up again into a normal boot. While it's not that big of a deal, it really adds like 10-15 seconds extra to my cold start boot up time. It doesn't do this when waking up from sleep or rebooting. Anyone have any ideas why it does this?

System in question is the one listed in my sig.

afaik, all intel based boards made recently do that. it's called a double boot.

something about setting the components in memory or something.

my msi board would occasionally fail the second boot, and i'd have to reset it by holding the power button in for 5 seconds before trying again.

but it only does this when it's been removed from power, and then plugged back in.

one of the reasons i went with AMD this round is that stupid behavior.

 

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afaik, all intel based boards made recently do that. it's called a double boot.

something about setting the components in memory or something.

my msi board would occasionally fail the second boot, and i'd have to reset it by holding the power button in for 5 seconds before trying again.

but it only does this when it's been removed from power, and then plugged back in.

one of the reasons i went with AMD this round is that stupid behavior.

Thanks, that was useful. I might need to look into a bios upgrade because it seems to be doing it on all cold starts. I'll have to verify this again sometime. Doesn't help that I've been going into bios a lot to do overclocking.

 

[Fayd]

Thanks, that was useful. I might need to look into a bios upgrade because it seems to be doing it on all cold starts. I'll have to verify this again sometime. Doesn't help that I've been going into bios a lot to do overclocking.

it's supposed to do it whenever it's been completely removed from a power source. your power supply might be different than mine, and thus isnt supplying some power in its off state to whatever component causes this behavior. thus, what should be a normal bootup process becomes the double boot.

or your bios might be old.

or it might be that way by design on your computer.

hard to tell.