Stuck at BIOS greeting too long!

[ahxnguyen]

Please help!
Recently, when I press the power button, the bios greeting screen comes up a few seconds later then gets stuck there for 10 minutes before I can see the windows screen. After that everything seems fine.
Is there any cure for that nail-biting problem?
Thank for any help.

My computer: AMD x2 4800 Toledo 939
(2-year old) MSI nforce 4 Ultra Platinum
2 x 1 GB 3500 LLPro
MSI 7600GT video card
WD SATA 80GB
Corsair 520w PSU
Thermaltake Soprano case
Thermalright XP 90 CPU cooler
Windows XP Pro SP2
Lite-on DVDRW

 

[btcomm1]

Here is the work around....

Do not shut off your computer

Other then that, see if there is a bios update for your motherboard, if there is something wrong with your bios then possibly a bios update will fix it. On the other hand, maybe you should wait for some others to chime in, if your bios is too screwed up then maybe bios update will fry it completely, I'm not too sure.

Also might want to unplug all your drives, all external devices except for the keyboard and mouse and see if it still gets stuck on that screen.

 

[Rubycon]

Do you have any USB hubs?

 

[swankypimp]

Do you have a USB thumb drive or mp3 player plugged in? I used to have a mainboard that would try to boot from my FAT32 formatted mp3 player for a minute or so before giving up and going to my hard disk, regardless of how the boot order in the BIOS was set.

 

[AlgaeEater]

What Rubycon and swankypimp said.

Double check your usb ports for thumb drives or external drives that are plugged in. One of them may be flaking if you've just started noticing the problem.

I would personally disable in the bios booting up from any device other than the hard drive. Usually this just saves a lot of time, and most people don't need to boot from anything else unless they need to format, and that's once in a blue moon.

 

[ahxnguyen]

Thanks, guys.
I'm going to change BIOS options and/or unplug that Lite-On optional drive to see which one is the culprit.
UBS controller is "enabled" in BIOS to be able to use USB sticks not I never boot with a USB stick plugged in.

 

[zerogear]

Well, I had a USB Hub that malfunctions before, and it caused my system that hung at the POST screen. After I replaced it, it was fine.. so you might want to check that. That USB Hub took one of my external USB HDDs out too T_T

 

[ahxnguyen]

I just disabled the USB controller and everything is fine. Thank you , guys.
My ordeal is a demonstration of the strength of this forum.

 

[krotchy]

Originally posted by: ahxnguyen
I just disabled the USB controller and everything is fine. Thank you , guys.
My ordeal is a demonstration of the strength of this forum.

Disabling the USB controller is definitely not the best fix in this situation. Now you cant use any USB devices.

Are you sure you didnt have an ipod or other mp3 player plugged in? Those tend to cause this issue.

 

[ahxnguyen]

Narrowing down I found that the cheap Lexmark usb color injet printer I installed a few months ago was the problem. Replaced it with an old HP usb color injet and the usb controller can be enabled.
I don't know why that Lexmark printer worked for a while then acted up.