Slow POST time

[stokkes]

Hey everyone,

I love this forum and it's been a great source of Information, I've tried looking through some threads but I can't seem to find anything that may help me.

System
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AMD Opteron 170 (2.0Ghz - OEM heatpipe HSF)
Asus A8N-E Bios: 1010
2GB OCZ Gold PC4000 CL3-4-4-8
XFX nVidia GeForce 7800 GT
Maxtor DiamondMax 10 250GB 16mb Cache NCQ (Latest firmware installed to fix issue)
BenQ DW1655 Lightscribe DVD-R

Preliminary: I was overclocking this system to 2.5ghz (using pretty much auto settings) and it was running fine. I have since restored the CPU/Ram configuration to default 2.0ghz. System was stable when OC'ed, but since the problem I've decided to restore it back to default to troubleshoot)

Issue: My POST times seem to have slowed down. When I either cold start the PC or reboot it, I would say it takes about 10 seconds prior to the system detecting the CPU/RAM/Hard Drives.

First it detects the AMD Opteron Processor (1-2 seconds)
RAM (1-3 seconds)
Then it sits at Hard Drive auto detection (>4 seconds up to 6-7 seconds)

This sucker used to post so fast that unless I held the delete key, I couldn't get into the bios.

I can't seem to pinpoint exactly when the problem happened. The system has been assembled for about a week.

Something tells me it might be the Maxtor drive (when I get home i'll attempt to boot without it plugged in), however, the CPU/RAM detection should be faster if I'm not mistaken.

If you need anymore information, I'll provide it. I'm really looknig for some potential solutions as to why this would be happening.

 

[IanG]

There's a couple of things in the bios i could think of. Try to find the 'boot other device' settings and turn it off, and also the 'floppy drive find' setting.

It could also be a usb device plugged in, so try booting without your printer, webcam etc hooked up and see if that works.

 

[stokkes]

Now that you mention it,

I did swap my old rig out and put my new one in its proper place last night


Plugged in my Logitech MX Duo Keyboard / Mouse
Samsung Laser printer
and Dell 2405 USB / Memcard reader cable.

I'll try that.. I really hope it's not that, I dunno what I would do.

hrm.