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November 18th, 2014 12:00
Precision T5600 - Long POST time and SLOW boot
Hello,
I have a Precision T5600, specification as follows:
- Dual Xeons
- 8Gb RAM (4x2Gb)
- Corsair SSD and two Seagate 2Tb HDDs in HDD0, 1 and 2 respectively (using the Intel C600 RAID controller in SATA/AHCI mode)
- DVDRW on SATA0
- AMD graphics card
- Windows 8.1.1 Enterprise x64
The problem I have is this:
- On power on, there is a wait of up to 10 seconds before the Dell logo is shown. I know something happens during this time as I can see the diagnostic LEDs on the front of the PC lighting up in various sequences.
- The POST sequence hangs with the progress bar at the 50% position for up to 15 seconds before continuing.
- The Intel RAID BIOS then does its thing and correctly identifies the drives. This takes no more than a few seconds.
- There is then a black screen with a flashing cursor which flashes for approximately 15-20 seconds with 1-2-3 showing on the diagnostic LEDs.
- The BIOS finally hands over to the Windows boot loader which then starts the boot process; but spends about 30 seconds showing me the Windows logo.
- Finally, the rotating dots appear but spend a further 20 seconds minimum before Windows finally boots into the GUI. Log in takes a further 20 seconds before I am finally shown the Start Menu / Metro screen.
Given that this is on a clean installation of Windows, with no other software installed, these wait times seem excessive to me; especially the 20 seconds before Windows boot starts, then the 30 seconds when the Windows logo is displayed.
Things I have tried:
- Disabling the Intel RAID and connecting just the SSD to the non-RAID controller.
- Disabling network boot
- Restricting the boot sequence to the SSD only
- Run the diagnostics (no fault found)
- Installed the latest Intel RST drivers (v3.8.0.1111)
- Installed the latest Intel chipset drivers (v9.2.3.1023)
- Flashed the latest BIOS (A13)
Other information:
- The problem exhibits with Windows 7 Professional installed, leading me to believe this is not a software fault.
I have a Core i7-4771 system with 8Gb RAM and a 256Gb Kingston SSD that boots from power-on to working desktop in less time it takes this significantly higher specification computer to even show me the Windows boot logo. I cannot believe that this is right - for the price and specification of this Precision, it should blow my i7 out of the water in terms of performance and loading times but it does not.
Any help appreciated!
Dave
ThaTacitDuke
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February 3rd, 2015 04:00
Hello,
have the same slow boot problems and some issue like this:
with two Seagate 1T on internal controller on HDD0 and HDD1 channel the Activity LED stop working when Windows 7 Logo appear !
Configuration:
- One Xeon E5-2650
- 8G RAM
- two HD Seagate Barracuda 1T on HDD0 and HDD1
- DVD on SATA0
- DVDRW on SATA1
- graph card Quadro 4000
- Win 7 Pro x64
There are any un-documented settings on mother board jumper?
RoHe
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February 3rd, 2015 13:00
Don't know if this will help any of these problems:
*Keep in mind there's always a small chance a BIOS update will brick the motherboard, so do this at your own risk.
ThaTacitDuke
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February 4th, 2015 01:00
Thank you for your interest and the hints!
1. HD Led stop working after win7 logo appear even with USB Boot Support disabled :(
2. I have flashed the BIOS one month after the new release was introduced to get rid of the PERC310H controller that, even if it is a SATA III, instead of the original SATA II of the MB, it doesn't give me no difference in performance (on a Seagate 500G Barracuda... but even tested on the two 1T barracuda the performance were the same on the internal Intel C602 controller, SATA II ... so, perhaps, I will install it back when I'll buy a SSD)
I can not even try to understand what happens from noise because the two HD run damn quiet !
hope soon will be a new BIOS release to fix this little, BIG problem .. or I am open minded to other hints and tries ;)
Regards