Startup-Long pause between power on and BIOS screen

spur44

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Hi guys. My desktop has started doing something a little wonky that I have never witnessed with a desktop before.

Upon hitting the power button, the system will come on. LEDS light up, fans spool up, etc. Everything sounds as if it is a normal start up except the power light on my monitor will remain amber. After thirty seconds the power light on my desktop will go out, then come back on a few seconds later. After a total of 1min and 39 seconds, after initially cutting power on, the power light on my monitor will go to blue, then I will see the HP splash screen, bios screen, starting windows, etc.

So I'm basically seeing a delay of 1 min 30 seconds, give or take, from the time I cut on the case power till I see my monitor power up and the boot process start. Once the screen comes on and the boot process starts, everything seems normal with no delay. I just cant figure out why there is such a long delay between power on and boot startup.

The system is only about three weeks old and hasn't always done this. The initial problems started with the system taking an excessive amount of time to come out of sleep. With that happening I decided to shut it down while out of town for the day and upon returning and starting back up is when I noticed this issue. Other than those issues, the system runs flawlessly. No temp problems, BSODs or any kind of instability.

System Model HP 850-065se
OS Windwos 7 Professional 64-bit SP1
Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-5930K CPU @ 3.50GHz, 3501 Mhz, 6 Core(s), 12 Logical Processor(s)
Motherboard Hewlett-Packard 2B3A
BIOS Version/Date AMI A0.02, 9/2/2015
Motherboard HP 2B3A 1.04
Graphics Card Pegatron NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970
Ram 32GB DDR4
Storage 3726GB Intel Raid 5 Volume SCSI Disk Device (SATA)
Audio Realtek High Definition Audio
 
Solution
Make sure no USB flash drives are not connected during boot.
also just wipe your RAM with erasers and also check if there is enough silicon thermal paste in the north Bridge.
Thats the normal way to tackle that issue.
If things still don't change then type msconfig.exe on run (which can be acessed by pressing win key + R)
and try diagnostic Startup. Even i had the same issue before and msconfig.exe solved it
All the best

Regards
Sandz

iXeon

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there are several cause for this issue the first is the ram calculation that according to your 32 gigabyte ram it would take a bit for the system to calculate so make sure that the rams are installed correctly and are set by the BIOS settings .
some hardware's has boot agent the problem is that they are enabled by default so every time you turn the system on the boot agent of the device will start to detect the situation and it will take some time for the confirmation to complete try to check the bios settings for devices like network card and make sure that they are disabled.
 

Dinesh Zaladekar

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Make sure no USB flash drives are not connected during boot.
also just wipe your RAM with erasers and also check if there is enough silicon thermal paste in the north Bridge.
Thats the normal way to tackle that issue.
If things still don't change then type msconfig.exe on run (which can be acessed by pressing win key + R)
and try diagnostic Startup. Even i had the same issue before and msconfig.exe solved it
All the best

Regards
Sandz
 
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