GA-X58A-UD3R very slow to the BIOS screen

[Gooman]

Re: GA-X58A-UD3R very slow to the BIOS screen

So...I did move my DVD drive to a different Sata connection and then flashed bios to f6b and also streamlined the msconfig a bit (there's proly a few items I could still uncheck on that). The result is that it's 17 secs to the bios screen, 13 more to get to "Starting Windows" and then I get full boot 30 seconds after that. Total time is 60 seconds. Not bad considering it was 80 seconds. I haven't done any registry tweaks, but I am overclocking (i7 930 @ 3.66 Ghz Stress Tested). I don't have many programs on this rig yet, but I do run Norton 2010, so that is probably slowing down the boot times a bit. I haven't seen the shutdown error lately...maybe the f6b is helping on that front as well. I had to go through all the settings again, so maybe I enabled some different stuff this time and I have the magic combination.

[HemanC]

Re: GA-X58A-UD3R very slow to the BIOS screen

Have you tried disabling the unused SATA ports in BIOS? I sorta remember seeing that in my wife's GB board manual. Something about speeding up bootup time.

[SB420]

Re: GA-X58A-UD3R very slow to the BIOS screen

and turn off all IDE devices that are not being used

[Lsdmeasap]

Re: GA-X58A-UD3R very slow to the BIOS screen

And overclock to 17Ghz!

[BinaryBummer]

Re: GA-X58A-UD3R very slow to the BIOS screen

I tried this changing the IDE to AHCI and thought I fubar my HDrive, but I went back to the BIOS and switched it back and I was able to get it sorted out.
Now working in AHCI mode.
Also is there any reason to assign the drives like you mentioned above?
What if I add more drives will there be any order to them or will it automativcally take care of it?
BTW great post.

[Lsdmeasap]

Re: GA-X58A-UD3R very slow to the BIOS screen

What do you mean about assigning the drives? OS drive should be on SATAII_0, and CD/DVD should be on SATAII_4 or 5, rest can go in the middle, is that what you mean?

Adding future disks will be fine, just plug n play

[BinaryBummer]

Re: GA-X58A-UD3R very slow to the BIOS screen

I think I have everything in order then. I have 3 hard drives I am going to add be wanted to make sure.

[Lsdmeasap]

Re: GA-X58A-UD3R very slow to the BIOS screen

Shouldn't be a problem!

Good luck, and of course let us know if you run into issues.