Slow BIOS

[macmaniac]

I'm trying out a P5LD2-VM board, and its just takes forever to finally boot from a device. I've selected quickboot in BIOS, and disabled floppy, etc, but its much, much slower than my intel board.

 

Either the board has a problem, or I'm doing something wrong. I suspect the latter, because I'm a BIOS noob. Please help.

[matemago]

there is an option in bios called IDE Detect Time Out... if this value is too high, it takes longer to boot, try putting it to 10 sec.

 

bootting time depends in several factors, you can try to set bios to default settings and start from there. i have almost same mb, mine is P5LD2-VM SE, and from turning on the computer to login window, it only takes 20sec.

 

if you have and usb harddisk attached during booting, it takes longer, since it checks also for boot sector.

 

EDIT: if you are a more specific on your bios settings, perhaps i can help you more.

[macmaniac]

Thanks for replying. Yeah, this is frustrating. I get to login screen with my intel board in about 15 20 seconds, not 2 minutes and 30 seconds with this ASSus board.....

 

I have researched, and it seems that most common causes are:

 

1. old bios

2. incorrect settings of bios

3. incorrect jumpers on drives or bad cables.

4. bad motherboard/battery

 

 

Actions:

 

1.I have reflashed to the most current bios. Didn't help.

 

2. I have enabled quickboot. I have disabled floppy. I have (I think) disabled IDE, and legacy drives, as I am using SATA2 for drives and for DVD/CD drive. It takes 2 minutes before it even discovers that there is no IDE drive. Its like it still searches for things, even though I've selected disable on those devices. But my BIOS settings "stick", because I turned off "splash logo" and it did indeed turn off. I have turned the IDE wait to 0 seconds.

 

3. My drives are all SATA2, including the optical, so jumper settings shouldn't matter (all cable select). In any case, these drives all work/detect on my IntelD945GTP board no problem. Cables are new, and work.

 

4. Don't have a spare, so I can't really check.

 

I'm gonna try one last time before I RMA the damn thing. I will post the BIOS settings soon.....

[macmaniac]

Well, the best I could get was the HDD starting to load windows in 60 seconds. Speed demon.

It took 34s to find the USB devices

It took 40s to start auto-detecting the "IDE" devices.

And about another 20 seconds to start the HDD.

 

Does this look like "quickboot"?

 

 

 

Anyway, here is what I hope are the appropriate BIOS settings that may have some bearing on my problem.

 

 

 

BTW, this is great how we can upload pictures like this....great UBB..thanks to the moderators.

 

Also, once windows gets going, it runs fine.

Anyhow, I think I'm gonna return this board and get an ASSRock.

[HeroinHero]

dude.. unplug ur USB devices and then reboot.. that fixed the problem for me

[macmaniac]

Thanks for the reply. The only USB devices are the Apple keyboard and mouse.

 

I need USB. I don't have PS2 keyboard/mouse. I can't believe that P5LD2-VM can't/won't support a modern device/peripheral configuration. If it does, why is it so difficult to make it work....

 

Unless the board is FUBAR'd........

[helios]

My P5LD2-VM DH works with USB devices and POSTs at a normal time ratio... also using apple keyboard..

[lord_muad_dib]

maybe you have faulty hdds or cdrom

 

try to unplug anything and have a check

 

edit: also try to hard reset the bios changing the battery