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    Laptop took forever to reach BIOS?

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by edwardamin13, Aug 15, 2013.

  1. edwardamin13

    edwardamin13 Notebook Consultant

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    Hi guys..
    About 2 week or so ago my laptop started to take forever (around 5 minutes or so) to reach the BIOS (Lenovo) screen. Usually it took less than a second to reach that page. I wonder what causes that. I t doesn't matter from restart or cold start. Recently my laptop also crash every 2 days or so, especially when finding a match in Dota 2. But this never happen before. It happen just now again and I decided to post this.

    This is the error code from the crash. Any ideas? Thanks

    Problem signature:
    Problem Event Name: BlueScreen
    OS Version: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.768.3
    Locale ID: 1033

    Additional information about the problem:
    BCCode: 50
    BCP1: FFFFF8A0595F3D96
    BCP2: 0000000000000000
    BCP3: FFFFF88007EA82F5
    BCP4: 0000000000000005
    OS Version: 6_1_7601
    Service Pack: 1_0
    Product: 768_1

    Files that help describe the problem:
    C:\Windows\Minidump\081513-7144-01.dmp
    C:\Users\ewatzz\AppData\Local\Temp\WER-20155-0.sysdata.xml
     
    edwardamin13, Aug 15, 2013
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  2. MrDJ

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    download who crashed from my sig below and post the dump report as that dump you posted doesnt tell us anything.

    sounds like it could be a dodgy hard drive with a bad sector but until you run tests this is a guess.

    also download HD Tune from same sig below and run a full sector scan.

    edit

    and as StormJumper said below try mem test from sig below also to test the ram
     
    MrDJ, Aug 15, 2013
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    Two problems could be going or one happening bad Memory or Bad HDD. I seen where it takes sometime to get to Bios when you swap memory it doesn't like or doesn't recognize. Did you do any changes to the hardware recently?
     
    StormJumper, Aug 15, 2013
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    The hard drive should not have any effect on POST speed. Sounds like a memory issue to me. I'd run memtest to be sure, and if errors are detected contact your RAM supplier for a replacement. Most memory is covered under warranty forever, so a replacement should not be difficult to obtain.
     
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    Remove any USB device attached to it.
     
    baii, Aug 15, 2013
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    Yes a HDD controller can even hang permanently the bios post.................
     
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    I'm running HD Tune and Memtest. Will post the result soon.

    But what do you mean by download who crashed? I looked at ur sig and didnt find anything about dump report thing, how to do that?

    I didnt do any hardware change recently. Replaced everything when I bought it last November.

    HD tune benchmark
    HD tune benchmark.jpg

    HD tune Error Scan all green

    Seems fine :/
     
    edwardamin13, Aug 17, 2013
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    tijo, Aug 17, 2013
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    ^thanks tijo.

    no need to look now as tijo posted it but in the everything you need to monitor temperatures link in my signature you would find who crashed which is a dump report software to show what caused a bsod. load the software and run it. it takes about 2 seconds and will then show the dump report, a bit like yours above but with much more info. it looks like this:


    ahhh, now looking at your HD Tune pic above it shows you have a SSD. wish you had mentioned this in first post.
    sector errors are usually found on spindle drives so im not sure if they will show on a ssd as there are no moving parts.

    go back to link below and download SSD Life and run that. if that shows as excellent health then its time to look elsewhere as its most prob not the ssd.
     
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  10. edwardamin13

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    Alright I ran memtest 5.0. Ran all test on 1 pass and all is good.

    WhoCrashed resulted in these :



    So is it my NVidia driver? or other driver? Crash usually happen when I'm watching/starting a match in Dota 2. But I played Bioshock 1 and 2 as well and they're fine.
    Also I'm not sure whether the crash and the "takes long to reach Bios" is the same problem.
     
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    61883.sys Analysis Report
    Ks.sys Analysis Report

    Sometimes it helps to know what the sys files are driving. So it looks like WDM, streaming and CSA so it sounds like there are issues with streaming audio/video.

    Not sure if this is an Optimus issue or not, stock drivers?
     
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  12. edwardamin13

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    mmm, that 61883.sys is not my error. It was just his sample.
    It seems that both my error result frm ks.sys, is it ok to try replace the file with the one from faultwire.com?

    I'm not that tech savvy so how do I know "what the sys files are driving"
    @_@
     
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    Updated the newest realtek sound driver and Nvdia driver 326.58 from gaming section thread.
    So far no crash yet.

    Anymore insight on the Bios problem? Memtest and HD Tune didn't indicate any error
     
    edwardamin13, Aug 19, 2013
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    Something to test. Windows bios can reset hardware resources to where on next boot the bios has a hard time resetting the hardware so it can post and once windows initializes it resets the hardware again continuing the cycle. Try booting to bios and once it is there do a full power down. If once you power up and it goes right to bios then it is windows PnP resting resources. If it is still slow to boot to bios on that next power up, then Windows PnP is not too blame.

    If it not the Windows PnP, and even if it is, try going to bios and load defaults. You may want to do this anyway as even a bios update without defaults loaded can cause hangs. Be sure to know your bios current settings before doing this in case it resets something that will stop the OS from loading..............
     
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