M1530 boot pause

Hello,

So i've had the m1530 for a couple months now. I'm not sure if it has always done this, but when it boots up before windows loads, at the loading screen with "dell" written on the screen, there is a good 20+ second pause when the progress bar is nearing the end. I can't remember if it has always done this. I have flashed the bios, still does this. Anybody no how i can get rid of this long boot pause? I have 3gb of ram, 2.4ghz, i think it should boot faster then this.

Thanks

-Brian

 

if it hangs on the post screen then it is trying to read a device like a hard drive or an external drive if u have any external storage devices unplug them and try if not test the hard drive might be going bad

 

This started happening to me after I pressed the power button while in BIOS to turn it off. How do I fix it?

 

It will always have this pause, even if i have no external anything plugged into it. After the pause it always makes the cd-rom eject sound. I don't think my hard drive is going bad cause other then this everything works normally.

 

Go into the bios and set your HD as the first boot device; make sure to disable "boot from floppy"

 

Tried that, i've set the HD as the only boot device, disabled everything else, still has the pause. After the pause my cd-rom makes the eject sound, think there is something wrong with it?

 

send it back to dell... i guess something wrong with the mobo or something

i only see like a 20s-1min pause on the BIOS screen when i reflash the bios

usually its <10s

 

Thanks for the help. I sadly dumped coffee on my keyboard a couple weeks ago (only 2 keys on my keyboard stopped working), so i don't think dell is going to take my laptop back. I bought the 3 year next day warranty, looks like i should have sprung for complete care too. oh well.