Does bad windows install effect bios start up time ?

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Bios start up time, before windows loads in. Example: Can a bad OS effect ram? I say this because I have two problems. 1 my bios time is 30~ seconds because my computer spends so much time checking my memory. (my Tuf Detective app... post code 00BD) I don't think checking 8 sticks of ram vs 2 or 4 sticks would make that huge of a difference. 2 when configuring these things I found my Windows randomly started with "error... recovery mode" Then thought to myself it could have something to do with my SSD or another form of memory being slightly curropted?
 
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If there's a problem with the bios in terms of taking a long time to get to the os then the os isn't the problem. The bios is like a 'pre os' and runs independent of the operating system, initializing the system at a basic level before looking to the ssd/hdd to begin the os startup.

Number of ram sticks can create issues since there are that many extra memory pathways/slots to check. Even though it may still be checking say 16gb of ram total, checking 2 physical sticks (slots) is less taxing than 4 or 8. Some motherboards (assuming they have 8 slots) will work fine with all 8 filled, others may act a little odd with all filled even though they're equipped to handle all 8.

The more physical sticks of ram the more complex since all 8...
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If it is taking that long to checks your memory, the odds are good that at least one of the memory sticks is producing a lot of errors. I am going to assume you did not buy your memory as a kit of 8 sticks, and as such, that mermory has not been tested to work together on that motherboard. It is much harder for a memory controller to handle 8 sticks of memory than it is to just have to deal with 4.

Qnd when Windows says memory, it is talking about system memory, and not about an SSD or any other type of memory. Windows is still too dumb to know that an SSD is solid state memory, and it just treats it (for the most part) like a really fast hard drive.
 
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But the thing is I bought the ripjaws 4 DDR4 3000mhz kit of 8!!
 
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If there's a problem with the bios in terms of taking a long time to get to the os then the os isn't the problem. The bios is like a 'pre os' and runs independent of the operating system, initializing the system at a basic level before looking to the ssd/hdd to begin the os startup.

Number of ram sticks can create issues since there are that many extra memory pathways/slots to check. Even though it may still be checking say 16gb of ram total, checking 2 physical sticks (slots) is less taxing than 4 or 8. Some motherboards (assuming they have 8 slots) will work fine with all 8 filled, others may act a little odd with all filled even though they're equipped to handle all 8.

The more physical sticks of ram the more complex since all 8 sticks have to be coordinated to work with one another. If you have 2 sticks of ram the system only has to adjust the timings of 2 sticks. With 8 it's working to make sure all 8 are perfectly in time with one another. Checking ram using memtest may be quite lengthy sorting out which stick is causing the problem IF in fact it's the ram itself and not the motherboard struggling.

Long story short, no it's not your os causing ram issues or delayed bios. The bios is its own entity apart from the operating system.
 
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