PC boots minutes after pressing power button

Gerben

Commendable
Jan 1, 2017
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1,510
Hello everyone,

I've searched for multiple topics here, but I'm not sure what the issue is.

When I press the power button, all fans go spinning, all LED's on cpu cooler and GPU light up, but nothing appears on screen (no signal on monitor). After 2-3 minutes I get signal and see BIOS screens and it boots up lightning fast, then everything runs normally. Sometimes my PC takes forever to shut down aswell, Windows shuts down and screen goes black, but everything in the case keeps running, and turns off after a few minutes...

Once my audio went crazy and didn't work shortly afterwards. I then reinstalled drivers and restarted, and it worked again. I think this has to do something with it. I got errors when trying to play a song in Foobar2000, so it's clearly a driver/motherboard thing.

Then there was one time when booting took long again, Windows boot normally, but everything was extremely laggy, I couldn't do anything. Imagine playing a game at 1 frame per second, mouse and keyboard responded very slow. I couldn't reach the start button and turn off the pc normally. (Everything was laggy, my usb headphone even put out a really weird scary cracking noise, with breakes in between) So all system was stuttering, I don't really know how to explain.

I checked everything in the case and everything seemed normal. I checked my power supply and saw that the rubber standoffs were gone, but it's been that way for more than a year. I really don't know what the issue is.

Specs:

Motherboard: MSI Z97 G45
CPU: i7 4790k
Cooler: Corsair h100i
Memory: 8 GB DDR3 Corsair
Power supply: Corsair RM750
GPU: EVGA GTX 980
OS: Windows 10

Thanks in advance!
 

Lutfij

Titan
Moderator
You may be right to assume the drivers may be off but in retrospect I think you know that Windows 10 likes to download it's own versions of drivers that it think si best which more often than not is the caue of the issue. I'd ask you to make sure your motherbaord BIOS is up to date while you open up Windos Task Manager and see if your resources are being used more than average and hover around 100%. If they do you're suffering froma memry leak which is caused from an OS corruption. You're going to either need to :
a| perform a repair install
or
b| reinstall your OS
^provided your HDD isn't showing signs of age and the probable indication of death since you've already mentioned that the system may be 1.5 years old...?
 

Gerben

Commendable
Jan 1, 2017
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1,510


Yeah the audio thing could be a driver issue. The laggy stuff did only happen once, and I got to taskmanager and everything was normal there. In normal use aswell, no real high percentages all the time. I can reinstall Windows but I'm afraid of it breaking it. Windows restarts a few times when installing right?

I forgot to tell one important note about this whole thing. My PC crashed before all this. I sat on a headset cable with a chair, and at that moment the whole system went off. Then I tried to start the PC again and that's how this thing of the very slow boot was born. The boot starts very late every time since that moment. Thank you for your time!

EDIT: system isn't too old and drives are not the problem, I tested as much hardware as I could. But again, nothing is weird once it's in Windows. SSD is fast too when booting, but the whole process just starts after 2-3 minutes.

EDIT2: The BIOS logo appears after 2-3 minutes, can this still be a Windows related issue? Because as soon as I get the logo, everything is like it normally is, except it happens after 2-3 minutes after pressing the button instead of instantly. GPU fans are restarting all the time in this period aswell, like 8 times.

Is my motherboard just nearly dead?