8 second delay after power button is pressed on e series vaio

Hi there, I have a problem that after I press the power button on my VOCEB4JOE Vaoi it'll take 8 seconds before it kicks in and I see the VAIO logo.

Sure this isn't right?
If I shut it down and then start it up within 10 seconds after I only get a 1-2 second delay.

Any help is very much appreciated.
Thanks, Tom.

 

Bit of an update on this,
if I shut the laptop down and leave the power cable in and then come back to the laptop after (any amount of time) there is no 8 second delay.

However if I take out the power cable and leave it for longer than a minute or so and then start it just off the battery the 8 second delay is back.

Since having the laptop I have installed a 4gb crucial ram so I have 6gb of ram now. One ram is CL-7 and the other CL-9. Could this upgrade play any part?

Many thanks

 

Does the harddrive spin up properly (spinning up once without clicking back and forth)? Can you post S.M.A.R.T. values, e.g. use HDTune and watch the health tab.

 

Hi thanks for your response.
After I press the power putting roughly 6 seconds after I hear a click once and then 2 seconds after this the VAIO screen shows.

After going on the health tab this is what it shows:

HD Tune: Hitachi HTS545032B9SA00 Health

ID Current Worst ThresholdData Status
(01) Raw Read Error Rate 100 100 62 0 Ok
(02) Throughput Performance 100 100 40 0 Ok
(03) Spin Up Time 145 145 33 2 Ok
(04) Start/Stop Count 100 100 0 182 Ok
(05) Reallocated Sector Count 100 100 5 0 Ok
(07) Seek Error Rate 100 100 67 0 Ok
(08) Seek Time Performance 100 100 40 0 Ok
(09) Power On Hours Count 100 100 0 120 Ok
(0A) Spin Retry Count 100 100 60 0 Ok
(0C) Power Cycle Count 100 100 0 181 Ok
(A0) (unknown attribute) 100 100 1 181 Ok
(BF) G-sense Error Rate 100 100 0 0 Ok
(C0) Power Off Retract Count 100 100 0 6 Ok
(C1) Load Cycle Count 100 100 0 1087 Ok
(C2) Temperature 203 203 0 983067 Ok
(C4) Reallocated Event Count 100 100 0 0 Ok
(C5) Current Pending Sector 100 100 0 0 Ok
(C6) Offline Uncorrectable 100 100 0 0 Ok
(C7) Ultra DMA CRC Error Count 200 200 0 0 Ok
(DF) Load/Unload Retry Count 100 100 0 0 Ok
(FE) (unknown attribute) 100 100 0 0 Ok

Power On Time : 120
Health Status : Ok



Then if I go to the info tab it shows this:


HD Tune: Hitachi HTS545032B9SA00 Information

Firmware version : PB3OC60X
Serial number : 101106PBP308161N4GBL
Capacity : 298.1 GB (~320.1 GB)
Buffer size : 7208 KB
Standard : ATA/ATAPI-0 - SATA I
Supported mode : UDMA Mode 6 (Ultra ATA/133)
Current mode : UDMA Mode 5 (Ultra ATA/100)

S.M.A.R.T : yes
48-bit Address : yes
Read Look-Ahead : yes
Write Cache : yes
Host Protected Area : yes
Device Configuration Overlay : yes
Automatic Acoustic Management: no
Power Management : yes
Advanced Power Management : yes
Power-up in Standby : yes
Security Mode : yes
Firmware Upgradable : yes

Partition : 1
Drive letter :
Label :
Capacity : 13468 MB
Usage : 0.00%
Type : unknown (27h)
Bootable : No

Partition : 2
Drive letter :
Label :
Capacity : 100 MB
Usage : 0.00%
Type : NTFS
Bootable : Yes

Partition : 3
Drive letter : C:\
Label :
Capacity : 291675 MB
Usage : 11.53%
Type : NTFS
Bootable : No

 

Could it be anything to do with that first empty partition?

 

Partition 1 seems to be a recovery partition or something, but I don't think BIOS actually looks on your harddrive before showing the VAIO logo. Physical, your HDD looks perfectly fine. Do you have the latest BIOS upgrade? Is your optical drive detected properly, do you have a disc inside or any USB devices plugged when switching on the computer? Try switch on the computer by pressing the assist button, it should boot into the recovery console (but don't do something in there). This would proof Partition 1 is your recovery partition.

 

I'm not sure if I have the latest bios. Is there any way of checking this?

As for the optical drive there seems to be no problems in the device manager ever seems to be detected. Also I have no disc in the drive or anything connected via usb.

Partition one is the recovery console, I also have the recvoery on discs.

 

Also in the boot priority I have the hard disk first and the optical drive

 

I found out my motherboard it just says 'Sony Vaio Corporation'

I can't find a BIOS update anywhere on sony

 

What BIOS version do you have? You can find it at the first page in BIOS or in VAIO control center/VAIO care. There is a VPC-EB BIOS file out, version R0300Y8, but I don't know if it is for your model.

 

I phoned sony support and they said that there isn't any bios updates available for my laptop.

I think it might be just the hard drive is slow in starting up.

What do you think to getting an SSD? I would only go for 80gb as I dont store much information on it.

How much faster would this make it?

 

Just an update, I didn't manage to solve the 8 second delay but I have a new drive now which more than compensates for the delay at start up.

I now have a Seagate momentus XT 500gb hybrid drive that is fantastic so far.

It has took my cold boot down from 38 second to 26 seconds and a warm boot down from 29 seconds to 18