New Asrock Build Boot Up Takes too Long?

Brucex64 · 20 Apr 2020

I just completed my new build. Its an Asrock B450M Pro4 board. When I booted up for the first few times into the UEFI, it takes quite a while to get to the Asrock screen and then to go into the setup. Once windows 10 was installed, its the same but it takes even longer. It hangs at the Asrock screen for a bit and then launches Windows. I timed it. It took 40 seconds from power on to the windows sign in screen.

This seems much longer than my old gigabyte system. And my system drive now is an NVME! What could be wrong?

I saw an option in the UEFI for "ultra fast boot" but it said that it would be so fast that I would not be able to get into the BIOS without using a windows utility to tell it to boot into UEFI. I have that disabled for now.

Plankton · 20 Apr 2020

A couple of things to look at; first did you install all your mobo drivers to include any BIOS updates? Next, which slot do you have your M.2 drive in....it makes a difference. Check your mobo manual.

Brucex64 · 21 Apr 2020

Yes. I could not find an updated BIOS, Realtek driver had an update. My NVME drive is in the PCI-E M.2 slot, not the SATA slot. I did turn on the "ultra fast boot" and it didn't make much of a difference.

Also, I noticed that when it gets to the Asrock screen and the shortcut for BIOS is the delete key, I have to hit delete like 10 times it seems to make it go.

Brucex64 · 25 Apr 2020

If my video card does not have UEFI support and the board is a UEFI BIOS, would that have a noticeable effect on boot time?

Plankton · 25 Apr 2020

Your mobo has 2 M.2 slots....it's why I asked which "M.2" slot you had it in. As I stated, it does make a difference which slot it's in based on the NVME SSD you have.

It would be very helpful if you included your new build spec in you profile and list it as build 2.

AFA the GPU vs mobo UEFI goes....from what I heard/read....if the GPU doesn't support legacy BIOS and your mobo is UEFI.....99% of the time it wont boot. That fact that it's booting up....tells me it's OK. NO....I don't think it would have anything to do with boot time as far as the legacy BIOS vs UEFI goes.

Brucex64 · 25 Apr 2020

Plankton said:

Your mobo has 2 M.2 slots....it's why I asked which "M.2" slot you had it in.

It is in the "M.2_1" slot, the one next to the PCI-E slot.

Plankton said:

if the GPU doesn't support legacy BIOS and your mobo is UEFI

GPU is legacy, mobo is UEFI.

Plankton · 25 Apr 2020

Look in your mobo BIOS for a legacy or a Legacy/UEFI setting and change it accordingly and see what you get.

Brucex64 · 25 Apr 2020

There isn't one. They have the CSM (compatibility support module). Actually, when I go into the UEFI the interface resembles a typical bios, with the menu across the top. correct me if I'm wrong but UEFI should have a more intuitive interface with an "advanced" mode which looks like a BIOS. One reason mine might look like a BIOS is that it sees a legacy device during POST and reverts to compatibility which is basically a just BIOS. Just my guess.

Another thing I discovered: my drives are partitioned as MBR, not GPT. Is it true that UEFI can only boot from GPT storage? If so then it must be in legacy mode for all my drives.

fireberd · 26 Apr 2020

My current desktop, an ASUS ROG (gamer) Z170 motherboard takes more time with the UEFI BIOS than my old build with standard BIOS. That is the POST (Power On Self Test), UEFI and loading Win 10 to the log in screen.

I just finished field testing a new Dell XPS laptop with a 10th gen i7 CPU, SSD and 32GB RAM. It takes 43 seconds to go from power on to the Windows log on screen. Like my desktop that is POST/UEFI BIOS to log on screen.

Plankton · 26 Apr 2020

fireberd said:

My current desktop, an ASUS ROG (gamer) Z170 motherboard takes more time with the UEFI BIOS than my old build with standard BIOS. That is the POST (Power On Self Test), UEFI and loading Win 10 to the log in screen.

I just finished field testing a new Dell XPS laptop with a 10th gen i7 CPU, SSD and 32GB RAM. It takes 43 seconds to go from power on to the Windows log on screen. Like my desktop that is POST/UEFI BIOS to log on screen.

Is that with a HDD or SSD? With my old Gigabyte GA Z97 Gaming 7 mobo, in the BIOS I had 3 choices....UEFI or Legacy or UEFI/Legacy. I used the combo setting as it seemed to work the best. It's boot time from pushing the power button on tower to ready to use desktop was around 22 seconds. This was with a SSD.