Aurora very slow during initial POST/BIOS/Start-up

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I started seeing this weird problem on my Aurora where it is very slow during initial POST/BIOS/Start-up. What will happen is that during initial power ON or re-start from Windows after BIOS/Alien head screen, unit will stay at either black screen with cursor flashing or at Starting Windows screen (nothing else happens on the screen) for very long time like 2 minutes or more and then suddenly Windows will come up and everything seems to be OK and I don’t experience any problems in Windows itself, I run windows 7 64bit. Also when I go into BIOS unit is every slow, it will take like 6 seconds before it responds to keyboard inputs moving between different BIOS screens. My hard drive is set as the first boot device.

Tesla1856 · Answer

Or put another way, unplug all external devices and try again. I have seen external devices cause this as well as new internal devices.

Boot order is a good place to start, but a BIOS will often check connected devices for other things like SMART status.

DELL-Chris M · Answer

List everything plugged into the rear and front of the PC.

zuluzkiller · Answer

Nothing in front

On the back:

Network cable

Digital Fibre Optic Cable for sound

USB Logitech G15 keyboard that has USB 1 hub built-in where Griffin Power Mate is connected

USB Logitech G500 mouse

USB HP Office Jet J6480 All In One Printer

USB APC Backup UPS RS 1500

USB to Dell SP2208WFP monitor that has built-in USB 2 hub and web-cam

USB Belkin powered USB hub F5U701-BLK where Logitech G940 is connected

DELL-Chris M · Answer

Power the PC off. Disconnect the following and then power the PC on and tell us if the boot/post time is quicker -

USB HP Office Jet J6480 All In One Printer
USB APC Backup UPS RS 1500
USB Belkin powered USB hub F5U701-BLK

zuluzkiller · Answer

Seem to be HP printer, once removed start-ups seem to be OK. This printer has memory cards reader built-in so I wonder if this might be causing this problem, for the record I had all these connected to XPS 420 without any problems before upgrading to Aurora.

Tesla1856 · Answer

I don't see an an option in the BIOS to "Allow Bootable USB Devices" like the XPS 410/420 has, so ...

Try #1: In Boot Config ... Set 1st to your main harddrive and set the others to Disabled. You can always use F12 to Boot from something else if you need to rarely.

Try #2: If that doesn't work, re-config the HP All-In-One to work by wired ethernet connection instead of USB . That is how I would have done it originally anyway. Should keep Aurora from trying to read/boot from HP USB memory devices before Win-7 loads.

zuluzkiller · Answer

I went with HP printer being on the network. Thanks for all the help.

zuluzkiller · Answer

My problem is back with the vengeance. After last post I though everything was OK, printer got disconnected and I restarted few times and it seemed OK. My Aurora almost never gets re-started and it runs most of the time but last night I was playing with some software and it gave me BSOD. After booting to windows I scheduled disc scan and rebooted again for it to complete and went to bed. This morning it was still at the boot screen at the prompt where it says pres any key if you want to abort schedule disk scan 1s left. So I reboot again the same thing. I disconnected all the USB devices except keyboard & mouse but the same thing. Rebooted again and I wanted to abort schedule scan disk but my keyboard would not accept any inputs although it seemed to be on as it was all lit up. After that it was time to go to work and when I return I’m planning to disconnect everything and see if it will come up.

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Aurora very slow during initial POST/BIOS/Start-up

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