Exactly 10 minutes wait after pressing power button or restarting

evop8c · 29 Sep 2015

I have a Lenovo Thinkpad t500 and everytime I try to turn it on (or restart), i have to wait Exactly 10 minutes until the thinkpad screen appears and the computer turns on.
i reinstalled windows (ultimate x32), ran chkdsk, swapped ram from my other laptop (checked compatibility) , tried booting on CD with the harddrive removed, restored bios to default, nothing helped.

does anyone know what might be the cause for this problem? I just want to know if it's worth fixing since I recently bought a new laptop.

thanks in advence

sdowney717 · 29 Sep 2015

Maybe the power supply is bad?
this happened on a desktop we had, everytime you powered on a delayed start, new PS fixed that.

Wibs · 29 Sep 2015

How long after a power-on do you hear the POST beep codes?

Wibs

evop8c · 29 Sep 2015

sdowney717 said:

Maybe the power supply is bad?
this happened on a desktop we had, everytime you powered on a delayed start, new PS fixed that.

I thought of that too, but i had checked with a different battery in the past, same result.
also, if I put the laptop on sleep mode, turning it back on has no delay at all.

Wibs said:

How long after a power-on do you hear the POST beep codes?

Wibs

I never noticed this, but there's actually no beep (just checked), unless i turn it on from sleep mode.

ThrashZone · 30 Sep 2015

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Sounds like a bad hard drive to me
Use Clean boot,
Troubleshoot Application Conflicts by Performing a Clean Startup
Click Start and type in the search box,
msconfig
Click on the suggestion on top or hit the Enter key,
Go to the Startup section and take some screen shots for a complete list,
Go to the Services section and on the bottom left Check the box to Hide All Microsoft services,
Repeat the screen shots,
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evop8c · 01 Oct 2015

ThrashZone said:

Hi and welcome to SevenForums,
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thanks for the reply,
I don't think the hard drive is the problem, i did reinstall windows three days ago, didn't help, i tried clean boot as you suggested and even set it to run on safe mode, same result.

i keep thinking it's a hardware problem, but then again the wait time is always the same (Exactly 10 minutes) which is very weird

.

Layback Bear · 01 Oct 2015

Because your bios have been set to default and it's always a 10 min exactly it sounds like a program/infection of some kind is doing this.

Have you did any security scans and if so which ones?

Jacee · 01 Oct 2015

Your antivirus could be scanning with every start up.

evop8c · 01 Oct 2015

thanks for replying,

Layback Bear said:

Because your bios have been set to default and it's always a 10 min exactly it sounds like a program/infection of some kind is doing this.

Have you did any security scans and if so which ones?

I have eset nod32 antivirus, i ran a smart scan, gave me 2 infected files but the problem is still there.
I'm gonna try a full scan tomorrow and see how it goes.

Jacee said:

Your antivirus could be scanning with every start up.

I don't think so because if I reboot without an antivirus installed, the problem is still present.

scr · 01 Oct 2015

Unless you've disabled the boot scan in Eset it does. Of course uninstalled is another story.