slow Bios

pjuegos

Hi,

I was concerned of the slow booting time of my PC, and I was blaming my new fresh install of Win7.
However, I have realised that the PC takes around 40 sec even before Win7 start to boot.

Any ideas of why could be that slow? I have disabled all the unused peripherals in the BIOS but still boots pretty slowly

Thanks

bonzodog2

You could try setting the POST checking phase to the minimum available level

pjuegos

Thanks for your reply,

I went to the bios to do that, but it could not find any menu that would indicate that function.

could it be that my gigabyte mobo does not have that ?

Cheers

Do you have any pci or pci-e cards installed?

pjuegos

Yes, I have a PCI TV card

bonzodog2

pjuegos wrote: »

Thanks for your reply,

I went to the bios to do that, but it could not find any menu that would indicate that function.

could it be that my gigabyte mobo does not have that ?

Cheers

That is entirely possible. Its my laptop (DELL) I saw it on.

pjuegos

pjuegos wrote: »

Yes, I have a PCI TV card

Try a boot with the card removed to see if it is still slow, my guess is the card is slowing down the post.