Quote Originally Posted by Capt_Caveman
Hi All,

Started putting together a new system with the IP35 Pro, E2180 and Ballistix DDR2-800.

The system originally booted-up quickly. But I realized I should only have one drive attached to install Windows, so I detached my other drives. Since then, the system takes over five minutes to get past the Post screens.

I've cleared the bios, swapped another set of ram but it still takes forever to get to Windows.

Any thoughts?

Update - the boot issues are at 52 - Memory Testing and 75 - USB initialization

Should I reflash my bios?

Quote Originally Posted by Capt_Caveman View Post
Update - reflashed the bios to the official 14. Still slow boot-up. Flashed it to the beta bios 16b03, still same problem.

Again, it just takes forever to process 52 - Memory Test and 75 - Detect IDE.

Anybody have any thoughts? It was working fine and fast in the beginning. It's also fine when it gets into Windows.
can you update your signature with the new info.

how many and what kind of drives?

did you clear cmos with the battery out and power cord unplugged for about five minutes?...make sure you push the power button once after unplugging the PSU power cord to dump all the capacitors of any stored current...then go through the cmos clearing with the battery out.

if you unhooked the drives at one time, CMOS might still have that data stored and it is looking for the drives and other USB devices that were once attached....it sounds like a conflict of assigned resources.