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7 comments, 220 views, posted 6:03 pm 30/05/2012 in Hardware & Mobile by bigwhiteyeti
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I've been having computer problems off and on for a while now, including random BSODs. I've checked most of my hardware, and it all seems to be working fine. However, when I go to boot, if I enter the BIOS setup, the menus load REALLY slow (like 10-15 seconds to register inputs). Is this a sign of a bad motherboard? I have been guessing this might be what was causing issues, but wasn't positive. Perhaps some of you can enlighten me on it.

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7:44 pm 30/05/2012

z0phi3l

Are you able to update your BIOS? If that fails I would lean towards a dying MB too

7:47 pm 30/05/2012

backroom

Make and model?

Many Dells, for example, have a very slow post if a hdd is failing.

The fact that BIOS is slow to respond to input is a bad sign.

5:15 am 31/05/2012

bigwhiteyeti

Quote by z0phi3l:

Are you able to update your BIOS? If that fails I would lean towards a dying MB too

BIOS are up to date...

BR- it's a custom build... Mobo is M4A78T-E with a AMD Athlon X4 640 CPU on it.

5:20 am 31/05/2012

Viscera

probably gonna have to clone the hard drive to save the data in case it is failing, and then reload it onto another cpu

5:29 am 31/05/2012

Flee

Tried resetting the BIOS by removing the CMOS battery or using the pins noted in the mobo manual?

10:30 am 31/05/2012

djskitzy

I had 4 HDD's in my desktop pc, one of those failed and the POST took fookn ages... I mean, I could make a cup of tea just in the time the POST was posting the check on the HDDs (ie the first page of powering up you see on the monitor) after about 5 mins it'd load up and then act like the cache had been disabled. The instant I removed the dodgy drive, the pc ran perfectly normal....

4:15 pm 31/05/2012

backroom

Along those lines...
Unplug all the drives and see if BIOS responds any faster.
If not it is a motherboard problem.
If you replace it with the same... or a very similar... mobo you will not have to reload anything.

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