Motherboard splash screen displaying far too long on boot up.
When I turn on my Windows 10 PC (a few years old now), recently it has started spending one or more minutes displaying the Asus splash screen (relating to the motherboard) that is normally the first thing to be displayed during the boot up process. It should only take a few seconds, so something's clearly not right. When I come back several minutes later, Windows 10 has normally loaded. A few times, I've forced the power off and retried (possibly it was completely frozen a couple of times).
The computer boots up from a SSD, in case that makes a difference.
Any advice on the best steps to proceed with diagnosing the problem?
The computer boots up from a SSD, in case that makes a difference.
Any advice on the best steps to proceed with diagnosing the problem?
I would start with disconnecting all bootable devices (SSD, CD/DVD, etc) and see what happens.
If it gets to a screen indicating no boot device very quickly, that tells you it has something to do with the devices you disconnected.
Reconnect the SSD and see what happens. Watch the drive LED and see when it turns on and for how long.
If it gets to a screen indicating no boot device very quickly, that tells you it has something to do with the devices you disconnected.
Reconnect the SSD and see what happens. Watch the drive LED and see when it turns on and for how long.
Since this is happening before Windows loads, you can't enable boot logging in Windows to resolve it and it is most likely a hardware issue. I've seen this issue in the past for several different reasons. The most common reasons were:
a) A USB drive, most commonly a flash drive, left plugged into the motherboard
b) Boot sequence set to "auto" instead of "boot this specific drive"
c) Failing USB mouse or keyboard
If you have a Dell you can run the hardware diagnostics and see if anything turns up.
a) A USB drive, most commonly a flash drive, left plugged into the motherboard
b) Boot sequence set to "auto" instead of "boot this specific drive"
c) Failing USB mouse or keyboard
If you have a Dell you can run the hardware diagnostics and see if anything turns up.
Have you changed something in the configuration lately...something new attached ? BIOS update ?
Disconnect the SSD/HDD from mainboard and see if it shows difference. I have seen this as my drive was failing.
Make sure that quick boot is enabled as well.
Make sure that quick boot is enabled as well.
it happens typically when trying to boot from other devices, so be sure to set the correct boot device priority
devices with bad connections or cables can cause this also - and as said, also bad drives
i analyse such problems by disconnecting all devices - except the boot drive; and if it still is slow, disconnect that and try to boot into the bios
last but not least : is your bios up to date? if not try that
devices with bad connections or cables can cause this also - and as said, also bad drives
i analyse such problems by disconnecting all devices - except the boot drive; and if it still is slow, disconnect that and try to boot into the bios
last but not least : is your bios up to date? if not try that
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Thanks everyone, I'll work my way through this and see what happens.
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Do you have either a fast boot option or can you disable the boot up display?