GA-X58A-UD3R (rev.1) Slow Boot up - Need urgent help

[babolgam]

Hi everyone. I just finished off building my system today. Unfortunately I noticed that the boot up time is very slow. It approximately takes about 1 min before I can login to Windows. I checked the site to see if there some bios changes or updates since I'm using F5 but unfortunately I'm already using the latest bios.

I've searched the net regarding this problem and the best thread I've found so far was this: http://forums.tweaktown.com/f69/ga-x58a-ud3r-very-slow-bios-screen-39133/  . I followed every steps and tweaks in there but there was no improvement. I just purchased this board and reviews on it was very good but it didn't say it would take this long to boot up. My previous LGA 775 build boots up way faster than this. I'm not yet throwing the white towel on this board but if there would be no solution then I might get a new one ...



Specs are as follows:

GA-X58A-UD3R
i7-930
OCZ 6GB 1600 mhz
Corsair HX 620
GTX 480 SC

[Dark Mantis]

Have you changed any settings in the BIOS eg disabled floppy disk? Enabled quick boot?

[absic]

It approximately takes about 1 min before I can login to Windows.

Sorry, but how much faster do you want it?

I'm running an AMD system and it takes almost 2 minutes to get into Windows! It used to be faster (about the same as you are experiencing) but as I have added more HDD's and software so the BOOT time has increased.

[Dark Mantis]

I too am running a system very similar to yours and I am booting off a 256Gb SSD and it still takes me approximately 55 seconds to boot into Windows. Personally I don't think that your time is excessive and as long as it is stable once booted that is what matters.

[babolgam]

Have you changed any settings in the BIOS eg disabled floppy disk? Enabled quick boot?

Yes I already did and I even disabled the full logo.

I'm running an AMD system and it takes almost 2 minutes to get into Windows! It used to be faster (about the same as you are experiencing) but as I have added more HDD's and software so the BOOT time has increased.

Before I had this system I was using my old AMD system (Athlon XP) and the LGA 775 system. Even the old system boots up for about 20-30 seconds only.

I went to my friend's house to check if his system boots up the same. His board is the Asus Gene II, it boots up normally like the way the lga 775 used to be. it took about 25 seconds to get into windows (stopwatch at hand).

Thanks for the replies.

[Dark Mantis]

Of course an awful lot of the boot up time depends on what flavour of Windows you are using and other programs installed. Everything has to be initialised on boot up and the registry can be huge.

[absic]

To clarify what has gone before.
When I first built my system I had 1 x DVD/CD Drive, 1 X 650 Gig Western Digital Black SATA6Gb/s HDD, Sapphire 4850x2 Graphics, Delta 1010 Soundcard.
I disabled some of the on-board peripherals that I never need such as IDE Channels (I only use SATA), e-SATA, on-board Audio, Serial Port, Floppy Drives, etc.,

Boot time was approximately 55- 75 seconds. Once I installed my other hard-drives and, to be honest, some very large audio and video software the BOOT time has increased. To help alleviate this I have disabled a lot of the items that Windows 7 wants to access or run in the background, during the start-up that are unnecessary. If I hadn't done this I dread to think how long it would take to start.

The same system, running Linux Ubuntu, gets going in about 35 - 45 seconds.

[geronimo]

Like evryone says, the start up time will vary with the hardware configuration, the number of programs that loaded in the start menu, the OS, and the cleanliness of your main HD.