Slow to post?

Rob Turbo · 23 Mar 2013 at 16:07

This has been bugging me for a while now, when I turn on my pc the fans come on but the screen stays blank for a few seconds before the post screen appears.

I have a gigabyte ga-z77-3dh, i5 3570k, 8gb (2x4gb) kingston ddr3 1600 ram. I'm sure it's always been almost instant on every other pc I've used, including my current laptop.

Is this a motherboard problem? I've tried googling it and can't find anything about it, maybe it's just the way things are now and I'm being picky!!

trickynickyuk · 23 Mar 2013 at 16:09

sometimes mine does the same if you have multiple HDDs it could be reading them before it loads the post screen

Rob Turbo · 23 Mar 2013 at 16:22

Mine does it all the time, with only one hdd, I'll try it later with no hdd plugged in to see what it does.

troops · 23 Mar 2013 at 16:45

My ud3h is the same but only when its been shut down, i tried a beta bios with fast boot option and there wasn't a delay so i presume it a mobo/bios specific thing.

snips86x · 23 Mar 2013 at 16:46

Do you have your OS on an SSD?

Mine is the same, but only because I've got an external hard drive. If I disconnect it, it's 100% quicker.

troops · 23 Mar 2013 at 16:47

Forgot to say but try a restart from windows and if its like mine then the restart doesnt delay.
It must be an initial ram/cpu configure thing.

Rob Turbo · 23 Mar 2013 at 17:28

If I just restart it's fast, it's only if it's been off.

Just tried updating the bios to 19g beta, I was previously on 19b beta, now I can't access the bios menu, pressing buttons while it's starting does nothing, I had a similar problem before, if my keyboard was plugged in to a usb 3 port it wouldn't work until windows had started, this time I've tried both usb 2 and 3 as well as a different keyboard, nothing works until windows starts.

Looks like I'll be going back to 19b, without the fast boot option!

I don't have an SSD, it's on the list though!

CaNsA · 23 Mar 2013 at 19:33

Disable the GSATA stuff in the bios.

troops · 23 Mar 2013 at 20:35

I found you get lots of weird crap with the betas so stuck to official, plus it helps to clear the cmos rather than load optimal defaults.
The last beta i tried you could select the speed of fast boot forgot the actual selectable settings now, but the fastest i couldn't enter bios.

wazza300 · 23 Mar 2013 at 20:45

about 2-5 seconds on my z77 up7 th with ssd and win8

should be fast

Rob Turbo · 23 Mar 2013 at 21:21

Cleared CMOS, this let me into bios, I now have the fast boot option, when enabled one of the settings it opens up is for USB initialization, the options are disabled, partial or full, when it's set to full my keyboard works to get into bios, but I still have the delay from turning it on to seeing the post screen, on a reset I don't have a post screen, just straight to the OS selection (I have dual boot windows 7 x86/x64).

I haven't noticed any GSATA in the bios, I'll have a look for it next time I'm in there, won't be long, I'm redoing my overclock after the bios update reset everything, this time I've taken the "silent adapter" off my coolermaster 612s, currently running prime95 @ 4.5ghz/65c.

The new bios has changed from that awful white full screen logo to a much better black one though!

@wazza300,

is that your post time or time until windows? I'm getting about that before I even see the post screen on a cold boot!

wazza300 · 23 Mar 2013 at 22:00

To desktop

Fast boot is very buggy atm so personally I wouldn't use it,putting the OS onto an ssd will speed the boot times the most

Rob Turbo · 23 Mar 2013 at 23:15

I'll definitely have to get an ssd, it'll have to wait until I have replaced my alpha power PSU with something of quality, looking at an xfx xxx edition 650w, it'll be at least another few weeks before I can shell out for an ssd.

wazza300 · 24 Mar 2013 at 00:03

Rob Turbo said:
I'll definitely have to get an ssd, it'll have to wait until I have replaced my alpha power PSU with something of quality, looking at an xfx xxx edition 650w, it'll be at least another few weeks before I can shell out for an ssd.

xfx are good choice,im using one myself and it works fine on gigabyte boards,if you can save up go for the Samsung 840 pro,thats what I have

troops · 24 Mar 2013 at 00:09

I use an ssd and still get the delay your talking about on cold boot
2-5 secs to bios screen/logo then around 7-9 secs to desktop with an M4 128gb.

wazza300 · 24 Mar 2013 at 00:14

I get no delays from a cold boot,if i do a restart and the board doesn't power itself off long enough,it adds 2-3 seconds to startup time

if I power the pc off then wait a few seconds longer and then boot up,its quick

troops · 24 Mar 2013 at 01:36

It must be a ud3h or d3h bios bug then because the fast boot beta`s fix it for me, but they have their own bugs like usb keyboard sometimes not working unless i unplug it then plug it back in.
Also with one beta not being able to get higher ram speeds to stick.