How do I bypass HDD/Mobo checks at startup?
February 24th, 2014
When I start up my computer, I see a lot of checks for my HDD (which are in raid) my mobo and a lot of other different things.
I wanted to know if there’s a way to skip those little checks?
Because it kinda ruins my whole startup process (takes alot of time).
I hope you guys can help me out!
Sprremix
You can’t skip it and normally it should only take a few seconds,Unless there’s a problem with one of the HDDs/RAM.
How long does it take exactly? Does it get stuck at a particular part for a while?
sprremix replied: When I start up my computer, I see a lot of checks for my HDD (which are in raid) my mobo and a lot of other different things.
I wanted to know if there's a way to skip those little checks?
Have you been into the BIOS and looked around? Should be either F2 or Del during POST. A lot of BIOS’s have a quick start mode of some kind, I know if that is disabled your boot will take a long time. Other than that, revert back to what Roberto is saying.
TIPS: There could be a combination of things causing a slow boot-up.
Turn on the “Quick Boot” option in the bios setup and move your hard disk to the top of the boot priority list.
Make sure your AntiVirus program is not set to perform a rootkit scan on system start-up.
In the system configuration utility under the boot tab set the timeout to 5 sec (default is 30)
Access this in Win 7 from Control Panel > Administration Tools > System Configuration
Another common cause is an incompatible driver and/or too many background programs loading.
In any case, you can trace all items that could be causing slow starting times by utilizing the “Event Viewer” in Windows.
Assuming you have Window 7 installed here’s a good tutorial on how to go about doing that:
http://itexpertvoice.com/home/what%E2%80%99s-taking-so-long-how-to-fight-slow-startup-times-in-windows-7/
@Roberto400 It doesn’t take a lot of seconds, but I’d always wanted it to go faster of course! It also does not get stuck!
@SmAsHeDr I can’t find that option… FYI: I have a uefi BIOS!!
@wwsmithe As I said, I cannot find that option, maybe it has an different name in uefi BIOS?
Thanks for your help! I hope I gave you enough information.