Driving Me Crazy...Slow Boot!

Laquer Head

Laquer Head

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This is probably something really simple to fix..but I have no idea.

Basically, the rig in my sig is awesome, once on desktop, internet, gaming ..etc

But, the thing takes ages to boot up as it decides to flip through about 5-6 different screens, like splash screen, telling about raid setup, bios info, cpu info..and its really annoying if I'm constantly rebooting to do things and I have to sit there each time while it putters.

Is there a way to avoid seeing all the crap so that it just boots properly and in half the time. Never had a machine that did all this before and i figure I musta reset a setting in a BIOS flash or something..

Are there settings in BIOS?, on desktop?

HELP--
 
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Disable the Marvell SATA controller in the BIOS if you're not using it, that will speed up the boot time a bit and should get rid off the Marvell splash screen (I have the same board as you btw). You can disable the ASUS splash screen in the BIOS too I think. Make sure your Caviar Black isn't in the boot order list, you only want maybe your optical drive and your SSD in the boot order list.

Think that's about it.
 
No, not really. But I have seen some motherboards take that long. I've even seem some asus boards take a while to post even after turning it on. Believe it was the asus m2n series. One of the reasons I tend to stay with gigabyte now.

However, I have also seen a bad hard drive, memory or other hardware causing the slowdown. Has it always been like that?
 
johnb35 said:
No, not really. But I have seen some motherboards take that long. I've even seem some asus boards take a while to post even after turning it on. Believe it was the asus m2n series. One of the reasons I tend to stay with gigabyte now.

However, I have also seen a bad hard drive, memory or other hardware causing the slowdown. Has it always been like that?
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Well, it wasn't always bad..in fact I never really thought about the various post screens until lately--it seems so slow since I've really been playing with overclocks on the 3770K--and rebooting a fair number of times.

2600K sure didnt seem slow boot like now..
 
vistakid10 said:
Disable the Marvell SATA controller in the BIOS if you're not using it, that will speed up the boot time a bit and should get rid off the Marvell splash screen (I have the same board as you btw). You can disable the ASUS splash screen in the BIOS too I think. Make sure your Caviar Black isn't in the boot order list, you only want maybe your optical drive and your SSD in the boot order list.

Think that's about it.
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Yours is actually better--its the GEN3 version..:P

I'll try to look in BIOS for settings..I dunno-
 
If you overclock, it can make your board unstable in many ways, not just windows itself.
 
Diskeeper?

Hi Laquer Head,

There is software that's relatively inexpensive to help with slow bootups. Diskeeper for example contains technology called "HyperBoot" that will minimize boot time by quite a bit. Safer bet than overclocking IMO...

-Alex
 
Dragunov IV 424 said:
I had the exact same problem, all I had to do is get a new hard drive. Simple fix, but pricey.
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You didn't even read the thread, it's not the booting that's slow, but the splash screens and diagnostic screens and stuff that are taking forever before the booting itself. And 3 ssd's in raid-0 should boot in like 5 secs.
 
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