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DELL PC taking 5+minuts to boot
DELL XPS 11700K Nvidia Geforce RTX3070 GPU
PC Boots fine when Nvidia card is installed with correct drivers. However disconnecting the Nvidia card and removing the drivers so that the PC boots with the onboard GPU causes bootup to be delayed by 5 or more minutes. During this time the activation light on the back does not show activity and the PC cannot be booted to BIOS. Numlock is on the keyboard but the normal boot sequence of numlock on /off/ on does not occur.
when configured for multiboot with the Nvidia card installed the boot menu appears correctly and selection of an OS and subsequent boot is fine.
However with the Nvidia card removed the system is as described above and takes 5min+ to boot. Also significantly there is no boot menu it only boots to the default OS. This is even though the timeout could be set to 999.
There is no POST info displayed and all hardware tests come back 100% pass.
This appears to be like the BIOS is searching for the Nvidia card and only boots to windows if it either finds it or after a long timeout period.
Does this look like it could be a mobo hardware fault or is it more likely bad bios from DELL? One DELL rep did tell me that if the PC was sold with a graphics card then it needs it to run but my understanding is that only F processors have internal GPU off and that K suffixes denote overclocking and internal GPU capable.
Does anyone have any suggestions as to how to solve this please?
thanks