Bios takes long time to load

[Billyboy007]

I am having a sony vaio leptop
RAM 3GB
GPU ATI 4SERIES 1.5GB
PROCESSOR AMD ANTHLON 2 DUAL CORE 2.1 GHZ
my bios is taking 30 to 40 sec to detect the hard drive when booting up ..
you can watch the video here of my lep boot up problem - YouTube
i have not connected any external drive and still its taking long time i have even updated the bios but no hopes
please help me out

 

[bassfisher6522]

Do you always get that black screen with those options, especially " start normally". If so that's not normal at all. Have you checked for virus's and malware? Is the laptop abnormally warmer than usual? Have you cleaned out all the intake and exhaust ports with canned air?

 

[Billyboy007]

yes i have done all thing which u have listed..
i dont get any such messages which u have listed above
i have even tried updating my h20 bios from sony e support but its d same
i have even done RAM test with memtest 86 i did not get any errors
i have even dissoconnected the internal harddrive bu still the bios takes a long time ...to detect the harddrive

 

[Billyboy007]

if u want my laptop info point its here ...

 

[Phone Man]

Check these two options in the Bios.

Full Screen Logo - (disable) This will turn off the Vaio image and allow you to see each part of the bios boot and maybe you can tell wheres the delay.

Quick Power On Self Test - (enable) Cuts down on some of the extended tests.

Jim

 

[Billyboy007]

hello Jim
these option are not available in my bios.....
only i can change my date and time and the first bootable device thats it..

 

[Billyboy007]

And one more thing i forgot to mention..My Leptop waz orginall installed with win 7 home premium 64 bit ..my leptop is having two memory card slot so once i inserted d memory card in the wrong slot and the memory card got stucked so i took a plucker and removed it from that day my Leptop is very slow processing and the bios takes a long time to bootup the internal hard drive ...so i reinsatlled the whole leptop with wim 7 home premium 32 bit fresh copy so that the problem can be soved but still m facing the same problem..

 

[AddRAM]

What do you mean wrong slot ? Laptop memory is under the keyboard or on the bottom or both and all memory slots are keyed. ( has a notch )

 

[Billyboy007]

yes m talking about the two memeory card slots under the keyboard one is of SD and the other SD PRO.. by mistake i inserted the sd pro card in the sd card slot so it got stucked

 

[bassfisher6522]

Are talking about SD cards....like for camera's and cell phones or the actual RAM (also known as memroy) which is for the laptop.

 

[Billyboy007]

yes m talking about the SD cards....like for camera's and cell phones..

 

[Billyboy007]

Yes m talking about the SD cards....like for camera's and cell phones.

 

[AddRAM]

Possibly you didn`t remove it all, so now everytime your pc boots it`s searching for the hard drive and scanning the sd card, increasing the boot time.

Just a guess but it could be causing it.

 

[Billyboy007]

No m sure I removed the SD CARD from the card slot..iz that card slot damaged so because of that its taking a long time to boot up the internal harddrive..

 

[AddRAM]

Look in device manager ( expand disk drives ) for any yellow markers.

 

[Billyboy007]

Yes I checked it there are no yellow marks on the devices..

 

[AddRAM]

If your comfortable with it, go into your BIOS and set your boot order to your hard drive 1st and disable anything else after. Post your results.

 

[Billyboy007]

Yes. But I don't have such option in my h2o bios of Sony I need to unlock the advance setting do u know how to do that..

 

[Billyboy007]

hey guys my problem is solved about the bios taking long time to bootup harddrive ..i just cleaned the memory card slot at the bottom of the keyboard ..it was having a little bit dust in it .as a result the bios was taking along time to boot up the hard drive as it was scanning the drivers of the SD card slot which could not be located because of the dust in it..i just cleaned it using a plucker and inserted the memory card in the slot again and again so that he dust could cum out i repeated this process 6 to 7 times..and after that i restarted the leptop and the boot time of the bios was just 2 to 3 sec firstly it was taking 25 sec and now after cleaning the slots at bottom of the keyboard its taking 2 sec ...thank you all guys for helping.. me. because of your suggestion m able to fix it thankyou once again....

 

[bassfisher6522]

Well who'd of thought of dust causing that type of problem.

Tip: with laptops IMO, I recommend that you blow out all the ports, vents and openings of any kind at least once a week with canned air if this is your primary or only means of a computer.