12 secs before starting BIOS

[t3chn0l0g1c]

Hi,

i got the R3E, everything works fine, there is just one little "problem" that is bugging me:
whenever i start the pc (or reboot), there is a "waiting time" of pretty exact 12 seconds, in which doesn't happen anything, before the BIOS post appears.

The fans turn on, LEDs light up, 12 seconds black screen, then the fans seem to turn on again (well they continue running, but i hear they´re "restarting"), then normal BIOS and boot. No other problems with performance or compability.

I have not yet overclocked anything, BIOS settings are mostly untouched.

other specs are:

1050W PSU
RevoDrive X2 240GB (definately not the source of the problem, its the same without)
i7 970
12GB Kingston ValueRam, 1333 (6x2GB, compatible according to QVL)
Asus GTX 295 gpu
NH-D14 cpu cooler
2 SATA HDDs + 1 SATA SSD
Bios version is up to date


anybody got a hint? i can't seem to figure it out...

Thx in advance,

T3chn0l0g1c

[xeromist]

Sounds like the board is initializing everything from zero every time. You could try pulling the battery and testing it with a tester.

[Brian@ASUS]

it is going through its post cycle. you will see red led lights going through the board to make sure that your cpu psu, mem vga are all working fine.

[t3chn0l0g1c]

just bought the board, thats no guarantee, but 99% sure the battery is fine.

hm, i kinda was suspecting this to be the POST phase, but 12 seconds is kinda too long for every time i start it...
is there no way to shorten or cut off that time? never have experienced anything in that range on any other board, ever.
after all, what use is a booting time of win7 in 10 secs, if i have to wait 12 before even entering the bios?

[xeromist]

Make sure that the fast boot setting is enabled in the BIOS and you can also disable things you aren't using (like if you're not using RAID then you can disable that).

[KILLER_K]

Indeed cut off some of the stuff you don't need. JMicron, Asus Logo and enable fast boot, make the SSD the first boot device. What reversion board do you have the ver 1.xx or the ver 2.xx one?

[t3chn0l0g1c]

well i´m on fast boot, disabled the logo and have the revodrive as boot device since the first time i started it.
i don't know the rev atm, gonna take a look at it though.
disabling the stuff i don't use is sure gonna help at some rate, but i´m really puzzled how the POST can actually take that long anyway, considering any other board i ever had was definately under 2 secs there.
how long takes POST on your boards?
since i don't have much time now, gonna post again after i looked at the rev and disabled some stuff (soon).

[KILLER_K]

You can use cpu-z and click the motherboard tab. It will show you what version you have there. I say it takes about 5 seconds with raid going.

[xeromist]

I think I've only ever had a really long post time on my ASUS server board. I'm not sure what causes it in my case but it could be related to the network bootstrap (which I don't use anyway).