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You don`t need a fast Bios, you need to take your time in there, and make sure everything is how you want it.
You don`t need a fast Bios, you need to take your time in there, and make sure everything is how you want it.
What I'm getting out of all this based upon the newness of the computer is that the OP is not directly interacting with the BIOS but through an interface-type program within Windows. That's a relative new innovation of the last 4 or 5 years, only computer I have with it provided by the vendor ASUS is 2 years old. There are a lot of things in that interface one can play with, it's just a program like the ones the OP mentioned were also slow. It all adds up to some issue with the software either installed in Windows or Windows itself. I'd certainly start with Windows Defender and the Offline scan to check for rootkits, trojans, etc., then after its reboot run a Full Scan. But then I could be way off-base, can't say much more until seeing the computer first-hand.
That frequently works but not always.
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From what I've seen most of these "Shift on the fly" type BIOS don't work that well especially on the initial release. The board is still Revision 1 so it might be R2 or even R3 before it'd actually preform as expected. Best thing is to do what @winactive suggested and load optimized defaults. Might have to reset the HDD boot order but that's about it. If the OP is trying to overclock (?) there are better ways of doing that and it'd be a subject for another thread.