Splash screen not appearing (cause found)

tom_1989 · 6 Jul 2014 at 19:35

Hi everyone,

I built my first gaming PC last week Yipee!

Everything was going great until I wanted to enter the BIOS.

I noticed that my splash screen stopped appearing when I followed the instructions on the OS optimisation in the Samsung Magician utility. Basically, it advised to manually set my Virtual memory to a min of 200 MB and a maximum of 2000 MB. When I did this my splash screen stop appearing during booting, preventing me from accessing the BIOS. When I set the virtual memory size back to system managed, the splash screen came back.

Does anyone know why this would occur?

Cheers

opethdisciple · 6 Jul 2014 at 23:43

The bios splash screen?

Maybe it turned on some sort of 'fast boot'.

tom_1989 · 7 Jul 2014 at 08:56

opethdisciple said:
The bios splash screen?

Maybe it turned on some sort of 'fast boot'.

Yea, the Bios splash screen. I've seen this problem on-line where it has gone unresolved so thought I would just mention it here. TBH, I'm not very computer savy (but I'm learning). As I understand it, having high amount of RAM enables us to reduce or even eliminate the need for virtual memory on the C drive. But it seems that the BIOS splash screen needs this VM in order to flash.

I would be curious to find out if anyone else has had this issue.

troops · 9 Jul 2014 at 20:19

Which board is it?

troops · 9 Jul 2014 at 20:20

If its Gigabyte you can change fast boot with the app centre.

tom_1989 · 9 Jul 2014 at 22:06

troops said:
If its Gigabyte you can change fast boot with the app centre.

Yea it's a Gigabyte Z97 Board. Upon checking the fast boot was disabled.

Do you guys think it matters that much to set a lower virtual memory for the SSD? I've had it on system managed and haven't noticed any performance issues yet.

troops · 9 Jul 2014 at 23:14

If your happy just leave it.
You can enter bios with the app if need be, so you cant enter bios with delete despite the splash screen?

tom_1989 · 10 Jul 2014 at 02:21

troops said:
If your happy just leave it.
You can enter bios with the app if need be, so you cant enter bios with delete despite the splash screen?

I can enter the BIOS screen now. TBH I was just curious why changing the VM would affect the BIOS Splash screen. When I change the VM settings, the computer was booting so fast that it would just go straight to the windows sign in screen (even-though I was mashing the delete key).

Thanks for the info. Didn't realise I could enter the BIOS via the app.