what is normal bios time?

Samsung User · 09 Mar 2016

hTconeM9user said:

Just retried this and now have a reading from start up to loading fully
72 so well pleased

Now 55 seconds after latest updates
Now 50 seconds from pressing on button to getting on this forum
Well pleased

msny · 09 Mar 2016

My machine is set to 30 seconds timeout.
Is there any danger in setting this to high or to low?
Thanks!

axe0 · 09 Mar 2016

I haven't had any problem with 0 seconds.
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Samsung User · 09 Mar 2016

axe0 said:

I haven't had any problem with 0 seconds.
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That is what mine is also reading at and up to now no trouble at all in fact loads really fast as you can see by my other posts also since yesterdays update seems to boot up even faster.
I press button logo comes up does two parts of circle then circle for windows 10 appears
Again only part turns before lock screen appears
log on with password
Then screen comes up and then message good to go and I am in windows mail app
Reading my e-mails
So I for one wont set a time out

davidhk · 09 Mar 2016

shmu26 said:

well in my case, I guess it is a matter of damage control. I probably have a defective bios chip in my mobo, but on the other hand, the pc works for most practical purposes. So I am wondering whether it is worth the bother to take it back to the store and wait X-number of business days and then go pick it up again -- which means working on a spare laptop all the while. But if the chip is showing signs of impending failure, I might as well deal with the problem already.

I see your point.

Cr00zng · 10 Mar 2016

On a Lenovo ThinkPad T430 BIOS time:

For boot time, I use the event viewer:

You can find this at:

Event Viewer\Application and Services Logs\Microsoft\Windows\Diagnostics\Performance\Operational

Divide the milliseconds by a 1,000 to get the value to seconds, in the image above it is ~19 seconds.

msny · 17 Mar 2016

I set my value to 3 because it would not accept anything lower.
After reboot I see windows does come up faster once I reach the login screen.
Thanks much!

axe0 · 17 Mar 2016

I've noticed that too yes, fortunately I had already set it to 0 when I still had Windows 8.1 :)

brianzion · 17 Mar 2016

davidhk said:

Just a curious question..................other than slower startup time, what would be the potential danger if the startup time is beyond the alleged " norm ", say by a couple of seconds ?

if you are still concerned with the speed at boot up have a look in the bios and just check to see the settings are OK etc.

lx07 · 17 Mar 2016

msny said:

I set my value to 3 because it would not accept anything lower.
After reboot I see windows does come up faster once I reach the login screen.
Thanks much!

The timeout only applies if you are dualbooting and defines how long the boot menu is displayed before loading the default OS. If you only have one instance of Windows installed it makes no difference what you set it to as the boot menu is not displayed anyway. Changing the Boot Menu Time-out - Windows 10 hardware dev

While it is true that you can't set it to less than 3 through the GUI you can set it to a lower value using the command bcdedit /timeout 1 from an elevated command prompt (changing the 1 to the number of seconds you want). If you set it to zero it will just boot into the default OS without displaying the menu.

I have mine set to 1 second so I can change to another OS on the (unusual) occasion I want to without delaying boot too much.