Win7 Slow Boot after H50 install

gresty

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I've just install a new Corsair H50 that required a motherboard removal to change the backplate.

Everything went to plan, temperatures are low.

However, I am now experiencing very long boot times (>5 mins) with Windows 7 Premium. I get a black screen during the bootup sequence with no hard disk activity for 4 mins.

I've disabled all the startup apps in msconfig and removed all usb devices but there is no change.

Safe mode boots quickly.

Any ideas?
 
this may be the same issue as what I had, after POST and before the OS selection menu (i.e. before any OS is even detected) I had a black screen with a flashing horizontal cursor at the top left of the screen. It turned out to be a BIOS setting, AHCI CD/DVD Boot Timeout (or something like that), mine was set to 15 seconds, as I had two DVD drives I had a 30 second delay. If you have similar symptoms, either change this setting to something lower (0 seconds is an option), or do what I did and put your primary HDD as the first and only boot device in the BIOS.
 
Thanks for your suggestion. No success unfortunately.

The black screen I get is following the Win7 "Starting Windows" screen.
 
Have to tried doing a bios reset and then re-doing your settings from scratch or on automatic without any OC?

I'd be tempted to disconnect any drives other than boot HDD and remove any USB/network cards etc, essentially run a bare system. It's unlikely to be the H50 causing it, more likely to be a short on the mobo or a problem with a cable needing reseated.
 
Found it !!!

I had a internal USB memory card reader in one of the drive bays. When I unplugged this from the motherboard header, the fast reboot returned.
 
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