P5Q pro boot delay

cyborg · 28 Jul 2009 at 12:54

I've posted about this before, couldn't fix it and have just been living with it. Just want to see if anyone knows now. I have a P5Q pro, Q6600 and Gskill memory (4GB). When I power the PC on the screen will stay blank and the hard drives will not start up, the wirring noise you get from the CPU fan when you first start up is also delayed.

This delay lasts about a minute, afterwards its all fine, no problems with the PC, never crashs. This is with the PC set at stock. So any ideas?

I have tried -

Booting with no drives connected
Different PSU
Different RAM
Swapping the bios chip itself for one of my mates P5Q pro.

cyborg · 30 Jul 2009 at 12:23

Its litterly 30 seconds (sorry about the over exaggeration)

Disabling or playing around with expressgate doesn't fix it

cyborg · 31 Jul 2009 at 10:27

Just to confirm, the whole delay is before I even see the BIOS screen.

cyborg · 20 Sep 2009 at 22:29

I never did solve the issue mate. I still put up with it even now. Believe it or not I work as a PC tech and still havn't fixed it.

cyborg · 26 Sep 2009 at 18:58

Bit late reading this! Going to try it now. Please please please.

cyborg · 26 Sep 2009 at 20:28

Bloody hell it worked. Why oh why was it doing that. Also a 4850. So happy now, system takes about 20 seconds to boot

cyborg · 28 Sep 2009 at 01:15

Can i do that :S