Laptop Hangs on BIOS POST (American Megatrends) then boots

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sunset.in.trance

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Hello dear TH Forum.

I'm having a wierd one.. Everything worked fine until I booted my Laptop today. It hangs on the American Megatrends Bios POST screen (Showing nothing but its logo and the version + copyright line) takes about 30 seconds to one minute and then boots normally. What might be the culprit here ? I haven't changed anything to date and it just randomly started to happen. I had nothing plugged in except the AC power adapter.

Here are my specs and thank you all in advance:

Clevo P170EM

Operating System
Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit SP1
CPU
Intel Core i7 3740QM @ 2.70GHz
Ivy Bridge 22nm Technology
RAM
16,0GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 798MHz (11-11-11-30)
Motherboard
CLEVO P170EM (SOCKET 0)
Graphics
Generic PnP Monitor (1920x1080@60Hz)
Intel (CLEVO/KAPOK Computer)
4095MB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 675MX (CLEVO/KAPOK Computer)
ForceWare version: 388.13
SLI Disabled
Storage
232GB Samsung SSD 840 Series ATA Device (SSD)
698GB Western Digital WDC WD7500BPKT-60PK4T0 ATA Device (SATA)
Optical Drives
Optiarc BD RW BD-5750H ATA Device
 
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shekyc

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I have tried this before with a malfunctioning HDD. The bios keep trying to identify the HDD and it can take a lot of time. Did an underscore flashed top left on the screen before POST? You can hold the TAB button at boot to see what's going on:
If it stuck on something like auto detecting sata3g/6g it's probably a bad drive. I have seen a good DVD drive having this problem too, idk how it's fixed, maybe just some simple plug and unplug
 
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sunset.in.trance

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Thank you for your answer.

This has been very strange. I didnt have the splash screen on boot activated as I deactivated it right from the day I bought the laptop, So I was always able to read the details. However it would get stuck displaying only the American Megatrends logo and it's version. When I read your answer, I just hit tab anyway and as if it was magic It jumped right over to booting windows without the freeze. Since then It never froze again at the bios / american megatrends screen. I have no idea what solved this issue, or if this was just a day my bios / bootup decided to trick me. I also can't tell if simply hitting tab is a solution for a problem that probably didn't exist. It's the first time ever something like this happened to me. Weird. However, it's solved. Sorry for creating a thread for this, but it seemed to be the strangest thing ever.

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