A friend of mine and I both have new GA-X58A-UD3R motherbooards and are experiencing the same problem, very long times to get to the BIOS screen over 25 seconds. Once the BIOS screen is seen the remainder of the boot up until Windows 7 (64 bit) is up and running is decent. We both have nearly identical components in addition to the Gigagbyte board. Corsair 1600 memory - 12 Gig, 150 gig VelociRaptor hard drives on normal SATA (no RAID)..using SATA2_0, 2_1, and 2_2. We both have 2 WD hard drives and one Samsung SATA DVD. He has a ATI 5850 video and I have a 5770. I've experimented quite a bit since my older Q6600 on windows 7 64-bit on an ABIT IP35 Pro is nearly twice as fast booting just seconds to get to the BIOS screen and approximately 40 seconds total from button press until a usuable Windows 7. It really irritates me that this newer system is so much slowere to boot. I've overclocked it to about 3.6 GHz. We both have Corsair H50 water coolers but I have experienced the same long boot times to the BIOS screen with no overclocking. I've also tried setting Turbo boost off and on - no change. I have SATA 3 disabled, USB 3, eSATA and 1394 Firewire are also disabled. The intel chip setting are at the default settings. Should I be trying the SATA II VelociRaptor on the SATA 3 connectors (SATA3_6/7 Marvell) with SATA 3 enabled or maybe the SATA2_8/9 Gigabyte connectors)? When the SATA3 is disabled in the BIOS, I can't see why that should be affecting boot up. The Raptor is the bootup drive. Is there an ideal way to hook the drives up with no RAID (i.e., optimal SATA connection choices) to avoid the long delay. I've heard others may have experience the same thing? Is there some reason why it would be taking so darn long to get to the BIOS screen?
Totally separate question: The overclock speed is not reflected on the system page of the control panel if it reflects the actual overclocked speed?
It should say: i7 930 @ 2.80 GHz 3.60 GHz )
mine says: i7 930 @ 2.80 GHz 2.79 GHz
the Q6600 reads: q6600 @ 2.40 GHz 3.04 GHz
My friends system page says the same as mine so it's not just me and I've looked at it at various overclock setting amd with turbo boost on and off with same result.
Thanks,
Ken
Totally separate question: The overclock speed is not reflected on the system page of the control panel if it reflects the actual overclocked speed?
It should say: i7 930 @ 2.80 GHz 3.60 GHz )
mine says: i7 930 @ 2.80 GHz 2.79 GHz
the Q6600 reads: q6600 @ 2.40 GHz 3.04 GHz
My friends system page says the same as mine so it's not just me and I've looked at it at various overclock setting amd with turbo boost on and off with same result.
Thanks,
Ken
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