Over 30 seconds before POST beep

Alex53

Alex53

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I just installed my new ati 5770 video card after my nvidia 8800GTS died on me this weekend. Installed the latest driver and up to now within windows everything is working fine.

However, when I start up the PC or restart it, it takes ages to get to the single 'beep' stage of the startup. Over 30 seconds, when usually its just one or two seconds. Once it beeps, the monitor gets its signal and the rest of the startup is normal.

Any ideas on what can cause that?
 
Whats the motherboard? I think my UD5 takes well over a minute from hitting power to it actually posting, no idea what it's waiting for.
 
My motherboard is an Asus P5N-E SLI. I've had it for a long time and its always taken a couple of seconds to beep. The only changes are a new mouse (Logitech MX518 and the above-mentioned new graphics card)
 
Hey, I have an I5 Asus P7P55D and mine can take a good 30 secs to get to the BIOS screen, I got a 5770 card. As I have had PSU problems the last few days what I notice on mine is that the led's on the mobo that indicate the stage of posting, mine goes CPU, RAM, GPU then power up, then HDD. This lasts like I said around 30 - 40 secs checking each part.
 
From pressing the power switch to the windows login screen, my system takes about 1 min 16 secs, quick boot disabled, cpu fan detection error message (hit F1 to continue). Asus express gate would add another 10 seconds to that if i didnt move the mouse and select "enter operating system". Also in bios, it takes a while to load up the hardware monitoring tab.
 
this does not bode well for my build list (was planning to build with a p55-UD4).... loading times are one of the only things about computers that bug me; can anyone comment on msi's p55-gd65 board?
 
I've had strange problems like this for ages, and have posted 2 threads on it (iirc), I press the power button and it takes about 4-5 seconds before the system begins to boot, with my older GFX card (that eventually borked) it'd power up, then shut down, then power up on it's own again, unrelated spec, E6300, Asus P5B Deluxe, 8800GT.
 
I had a problem with a gigabyte board with nvidia chipset, along with a 5770 which was taking an incredible time to post. Was fine with nvidia cards or older models. Done a bios update and the problem disappeared :)

Dunno if this will help but worth a shot.
 
I had this problem with my rampage formula, quess what the problem was.....
















The HDD had a dodgy connection aka broke so it was not getting the power, properly however the BIOS knew it was there
 
I doubt in my case its the motherboard. The same motherboard has been booting up quickly for years until yesterday. I just changed the graphics card and the mouse and suddenly 30+ seconds to post. *shrug*
 
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