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    dell sxps 1645 boot (grub) annoyance

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by samco, May 21, 2010.

  1. samco

    samco Notebook Enthusiast

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    So I when I first got this laptop a few weeks ago I instantly installed lucid lynx. So I am dual booting between W7 and lucid. The odd thing I see is that the grub menu seems to take a random amount of time to come up. Sometimes it takes a few second to get to the OS list - other times it takes more than 10 seconds. Also - sometimes the OS list will come up - but the keyboard will to be recognized for another few seconds (like 5 or more seconds)

    Odd huh? Just a annoyance.

    sam
     
    samco, May 21, 2010
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    samco Notebook Enthusiast

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    I should add - it sometime seems to take an extra long time for the bios splash screen to appear after hitting the power button.

    sam
     
    samco, May 21, 2010
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    JL6speed Notebook Geek

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    Hmm... I've had linux (ubuntu) installed prior to my win7 format, and I have not had such an issue. Perhaps it is something with the linux u are using.
     
    JL6speed, May 22, 2010
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    It really depends on how many times you are restarting the pc. As it is set by default to do a fast bios boot (ex. skip certain tests during boot) it usually needs to do a full system check every once in a while. This is the reason why sometimes you have those slow boot ups. If you have a lot of ram installed the delays are longer due to the fact that every kb of ram needs to checked prior booting.
     
    bulforce, May 23, 2010
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