Slow BIOS booting

Excellent, Chris - I look forward to hearing back.  I'm certainly OK with living with this since I don't need to reboot that often, but the boot is clearly MUCH longer than any other Dell PC I've owned (XPS H2C 720, XPS GEN3, Dim 8400, Dim 8250, Dim 8200, etc.).   Thanks again...

The BIOS actually takes a shockingly long time to POST. I reckon the DELL Poweredge 2950's with dual processors and mulitple SCSI RAID arrays that I use at work boot faster than my Aurora.

We will be releasing a Bios Update to address the long boot times maybe before March.

We will be releasing a Bios Update to address the long boot times maybe before March.

Great! Always happy to hear when Dell listens to customers not the money only =)

We will be releasing a Bios Update to address the long boot times maybe before March.

Thanks Chris M, I will definitely look for this.  This is very exciting!

I have the same slow start up infact its worse!

1min 23seconds to boot bios

2 min 30 seconds to Desktop

conected

sp2309 monitor

tactx keybord and mouse

seems very slow, also scored less than 10,000 on vantage

i7960, 6gb 133mhz ddr3 ram, 64ogb 7200rpm HD

When can we expect the new BIOS for Area-51?

I was not given an ETA.

45 seconds bios

20 seconds after that to windows login screen

USB devices coupled

TactX keyboard and mouse

USB hub (power off, so not seen)

D-Link RangeBooster N® USB Adapter (DWA-140)

Dell U2410

Several powered off external harddisks

Is everyone talking about the part with the Alien head part?  Right before the window screen?

Sorry this is my first Alienware and I thought it is odd how long it takes to boot up, I bought my system with the 256bg ssd and always though it shouldn't take long to boot.

Is everyone talking about the part with the Alien head part?  Right before the window screen?   Sorry this is my first Alienware and I thought it is odd how long it takes to boot up, I bought my system with the 256bg ssd and always though it shouldn't take long to boot.

Yes, this is the BIOS posting time.  If you want to measure how fast your OS boots on your SSD, you can do something like press F12 to get the boot menu, then select your SSD drive and start timing it then.

You have to wait 30 seconds or so before you can press F12, just hit it a few times until it highlights.

Just curious, is that the Samsung SSD?

Hey guys. I guess I am not the only one with this issue. lol.

I get about the same boot times you guys get. My specs are i7 975, 6GB 1333MHz, 120GB OCZ Vertex Turbo SSD, Dual 5870's, 2x 750GB RAID 0.

Thanks Chris for looking into solving this issue. Also, I am having some sleep issues like the others here mentioned. Sometimes it works and wakes up on its own without any sleep timers enabled as well. Sleep also does not work at all when using other memory with XMP setting enabled for some reason. Is anyone else having those issues as well as the long booting times?

Is everyone talking about the part with the Alien head part?  Right before the window screen?   Sorry this is my first Alienware and I thought it is odd how long it takes to boot up, I bought my system with the 256bg ssd and always though it shouldn't take long to boot.

Yes, this is the BIOS posting time.  If you want to measure how fast your OS boots on your SSD, you can do something like press F12 to get the boot menu, then select your SSD drive and start timing it then.

You have to wait 30 seconds or so before you can press F12, just hit it a few times until it highlights.

Just curious, is that the Samsung SSD?

In bios..it takes about 45 seconds....once window starts it takes like 5 secs to the login screen.  Once i login takes 2 seconds to my desktop.

Is already March. Any word on the new Bios?

The bios they are testing has decreased boot time by 25%. When it's ready, they will release it.

Do you know where I can get a hold of the older bios for the Auroral ALX? I have A01 and A04 but I would like to try A02 and A03 as well to see if they work better do diminish the booting time.

Thanks a lot Chris!