Asus G60VX, 12 second POST screen

I know it's not really a long amount of time, but it was shorter ( I think...) before I reformatted and re-installed windows 7.
I only re-installed for a speed boost, so I'm not having hardware or software issues at all besides this.

When I press the power the laptop boots up and you see the Republic of Gamers symbol appear out of fire, but after the image shows and the exploding sound plays, it just kinda hangs there for a couple extra seconds. When I press power it takes 12 seconds before I see the windows 7 loading screen, when before it went to windows 7 loading almost right after the sound played :/

If you see in this video ( YouTube - Asus Utility Features / Demo G60VX) at about 1:08 You'll see what I mean. His laptop continues to the windows 7 loading immediately after the sound plays.

I'd really just like the fastest boot time possible

Thanks in advance guys, I hope this isn't too minor to even be posting about

 

Do you have any external drives plugged in? The BIOS scans for bootable drives so if it takes a few seconds for something to spin up that's why. My external makes my BIOS hang for about 10 seconds total while it spins up.

 

Nope, the only hard drives attached is the internal one :/
I have booted to a linux USB drive twice on random occasions to test out the OS, and I have booted from a CD, but only to re-install windows 7. But then again my boot priority lists the hard drive as first like it's always been...

Thanks for the input pal I'm glad someone chose to lend a hand!

 

Not a problem! I'm sorry I can't fix your problem... What you might experiment with sometime is actually removing certain items from boot if possible, particularly Ethernet/network boot, or perhaps you can enable verbose/nongraphical boot and see if you can read what is taking so long.
There also might be a fast/quick boot option that less rigorously tests memory. If that's disabled it's sure to add a few seconds to boot time.

 

Go into the BIOS and reset to defaults. If this doesn't help, then wipe the HHD clean and redo the Win 7 Install.

 

Oddly enough I was checking out the BIOS settings, and I disbabled the graphical boot to see what in the world the POST was doing. It seems that it was checking for an ethernet connection to boot from or something, and when I tried to disable it, the BIOS then took 20 seconds. So I facepalmed for a couple minutes and restored everything back to default, still 12 seconds. I guess I'll have to deal with it
Thanks pal

As stated above I just did that and it didn't change anything. Also this problem only came after I re-installed windows 7. I actually did the re-install once, had some issues, installed again, had no problems, and then I got the proper driver dvd so I re-installed again, and all 3 times the BIOS has been amped up to 12 seconds. I could try again, but it definitely won't be in the near future. Maybe in 5 or 6 months so I could get a performance speed up, but unless I get an infection or some sort of OS failure, I won't be re-installing soon. Thanks dude, any other suggestions are greatly appreciated!

 

Man you have me stumped... I don't know what it could be. Best of luck with this! :/

 

It could be a problem with one of the hard drives. It's also worth testing it with removing one stick of memory at a time to see if one is bad, or just run memtest.

Setting BIOS to user defaults and maybe reflashing would be another thing to try. It sounds more like a hardware issue though. Reinstalling windows won't help you at POST.

 

Yeah, I might reflash too - I remember I had a problem with one of my g51 unit, where it would "explode" twice before starting. It was strange. Added a good 6 seconds to boot.

 

Could be a hard-drive problem, since after re-installing windows 7 boot time got slower, which I 'fixed' with a ton of things like disabling GUI boot and using this command prompt thing to train the prefetcher...

May I ask how to go about doing a reflash? Is it completely safe?

Do you know how I can reflash? I don't really want to burn any CD's or DVDs so can I do it from a usb drive? I have no idea how to go about doing that :/

Hahaha yup

 

This happened to me when I installed a second HDD and swapped bays (only 1 supports 12mm HDDs). Loading USER defaults in the BIOS solved this. As for reflashing I've only done a BIOS upgrade once via WinFlash (in Windows) with no problems, but I'm not sure if it supports loading the same BIOS again.

 

You should reflash from a FAT formatted USB stick. Download the BIOS image from ASUSTeK Computer Inc.-Support- and unzip the file onto your usb stick. Go into the BIOS setup with F2 and use Easy Flash.

If you suspect a hard drive problem, I'd recommend booting from USB or CD with the hard drives out. That way you can see if the POST screen continues to hang during boot. Try a linux liveusb or livecd. Check out UNetbootin - Homepage and Downloads

 

Alright guys it's back to normal
Interestingly enough doing a re-flash didn't change anything, but going back to the USER defaults rather than the manufacturor defaults I'd been going back to solved the problem
Thanks guys, I'm really glad I got help!

 

Hey awesome! Glad you got it to work! I had the same experience with my double POSTing. Dunno what the difference is inside but clearly one works better than the other.

 

Haha yup
I'm not sure but I think to only setting that changed (atleast that I could see) was the usb legacy support thing. Interesting :/