ASUS® P7P55D-E PRO mobo - slow starter??

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StuPC

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Hi guys,
I've got a ASUS® P7P55D-E PRO motherboard with an i7 870 and 8gb of RAM, plus
a separate SSD with my OS (Win7 x64)

The "problem" is that my boot times are stuck at around 30 seconds mainly because the mobo takes ages to kick in. I estimate a good 20 seconds of that boot time is the BIOS starting, which seems insane to me - or am I just being impatient?? :mad:

I had a Dell Inspiron 530 before and the BIOS on that was running and moving on to starting Windows within 10 seconds at the very outside.
Is there anything I can do to speed up my BIOS start??
Cheers,
-Stu
 
Sleinous

Sleinous

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You can disable some of the post-screens, theyre a royal pain in the back side.

Until UEFI or whatever that new tech is called is implemented in new mobos, im afraid youre stuck with the usual 10 second BIOS boot time.
 
Sleinous

Sleinous

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Sorry I forgot to add that disabling post screens will obviously diminish the amount of time you spend watching logos and other rif-raff floating around your screen before the Windows logo appears.
 
Gorman

Gorman

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consider disabling any onboard device which you are not using

Im talking about:

PXE (network) boot
Any IDE or SAS / RAID controllers which run checks
Enable quickboot
Disable the floppy drive (yes, even if you dont have one)
Disable express gate if its there

The IDE and sas controllers will be your main culprits, no any drive found anyone?
 
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pioruns

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By the way, use of Express Gate is very bad idea, since it is not updated from years. It's based on Linux (not updated kernel). Web browser inside is Firefox 3.0.x, without security fixes, which are required in our times.
I don't mean that any malware can be installed by Express Gate, rather the stealing password/cookies data by XSS etc.
 
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StuPC

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OK, following an unsuccessful attempt to RAID two SSDs (don't ask), a reinstall of Win7 x64, a succession of BSODs following the reinstall and a reset of my BIOS I now have the following problems:
1. the BIOS options screen comes up for about 15-20 seconds and I seem to be unable to skip the damn thing or reduce the time it displays for.
2. When the BIOS options finally disappear I then get offered a choice of two Win7 installations to start. I only have one Win7 install on my PC - if I choose the second one I get an error message and have to restart.

So... does anyone have any advice on reducing the display time for the BIOS option screen AND/OR then removing the need to choose which Win7 install to run? I've had a poke around in the BIOS options but (not knowing very much about BIOS) haven't had any luck so far. :-(
 
pengipete

pengipete

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I've had a couple of different Asus mobos and they both had a slow boot-through-BIOS problem. The cause (later cured by a BIOS update) was traced down to BIOS trying to find bootable devices on USB ports - in particular, any port with a card-reader or other storage device attached including internal card readers and printers with card-readers built in.

The simple "cure" was to disable Legacy Support for USB in BIOS. The downside was that some people had problems getting their internal card-reader to work afterward but it was rare. In those cases we found that leaving a card in any one of the slots worked.

Regarding boot times - it's possible to trim a little off by manually setting as many of the "Auto" defaults as possible - in particular, any settings that have to check for the existence of drives, fans etc. Also, disable any pretty boot-up screen (Asus do seem to like those). Do not change any defaults listed as advanced settings unless you are absolutely sure you know what you are doing. Also check in the Boot settings - make sure that "Quick Boot" (or whatever similar name they've used) is selected and that "Verbose" (or equivalent) is disabled.

As for selecting from multiple OS's - you do that from within Windows. I've no PC set up to multi at the moment so I'm doing this from memory but open the startmenu and type MSConfig. In the window that opens, go to the BOOT tab - there you can delete the non-existent OS. If that doesn't work for any reason, I believe it will involve manually editing a file called boot.ini - post back if you get stuck.
 
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