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Maximus VII Gene taking a long time to boot.

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  • BIOS
  • Boot
  • Slow Startup
  • AsusTeK COMPUTER
  • z97
  • Motherboards
  • Corsair Dominator
  • Asus
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  • Gene
  • ROG
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October 13, 2014 3:40:25 AM

Hi guys,
Recently my PC has been taking ages to boot. It stays on the ROG screen (Press F2 or DEL to enter Setup) and doesn't do anything for about a minute, it then finally boots up. (During this time my keyboard doesn't function either, pressing f2 or delete does nothing and it boots into windows) Now a minute might not seem the longest of times however it used to stay on that screen for around 5 seconds and my whole machine would boot up within 20-30 seconds.

This started happening a short while after updating the BIOS to version 1104 and I'm struggling to pinpoint this issue here.

Here are the things I have tried:
- Updating the bios, rolling back the bios update to 1002. Booting the pc multiple times (same issue), then re-updating to 1104 but nothing has changed.
- Overclocking my CPU and Ram to 4.4 GHZ & 1866mhz (Thought the bios screen was a performance issue)
- Downloading and using CCleaner & System Mechanic
- Running full system scans with McAfee Livesafe Antivirus
- Windows trouble shooting.

Nothing seem to fix the issue so is there something I am missing?

The build is:
Intel Core i5 4670k
Corsair Dominator 16GB
Asus ROG Maximus VII Gene (Z97)
Corsair H100i Cooler
Samsung 840 EVO 500GB SSD
Corsair RM650w psu
(No GPU atm)

Thanks in advance for your help and apologies if this has been posted in the wrong section! :) 

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October 13, 2014 3:55:43 AM

reset your cpu and ram back to factory default and see if that helps, you might have to go back and reset your overclocks as the new bios might not like it.

I would look hard at the ram overclocks, I took my 2133MHz ram to 2400MHz with some timing changes and it took my computer forever to boot up. Im guessing your new bios does not like the ram timings so i would check that first.
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October 16, 2014 2:49:01 AM

Thanks for your reply.
I tried that but to no avail. The ram and cpu settings were on default when this issue happened and I only overclocked them to see if it would work that way. When it didn't I reset to factory defaults. Still don't know what to do
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