Cold boot intermittently takes a full minute to post

[TwistedMetalGear]

Hi all. I built a new system recently and noticed that it sometimes takes a full minute to post during a cold boot. During this time, I have no video signal and the "GEFORCE RTX" LED on my video card is off. After a minute, the LED finally turns on and it posts.

It's intermittent. Sometimes it posts fairly quickly and other times it's a full minute.

BIOS has been updated to latest. Only change I made was enabling the EXPO profile.

Any ideas?

Specs:
ASRock B650E Taichi Lite
Ryzen 7800X3D
G.SKILL Flare X5 CL30-38-38-96
RTX 4090 FE

 

[pendragon1]

probably the ram training. look in the bios for a setting to reuse the last boots settings, i cant remember the exact wording though....

 

[Doozer]

What PSU are you using?

 

[bitnick]

Mine does the same thing - about once a month or so, it seems to want to re-train the RAM. Not often enough to really matter, but still annoying when it happens. How often does it happen for you?

AMD Ryzen "5" 7600
ASRock B650M-HDV/M.2 (UEFI version 1.28, 2023-08-01)
Kingston Fury Beast KF560C36BBEK2-32 (Edit: at EXPO settings, no manual overclocking)

 

[pendragon1]

i cant remember the exact wording though...

this:

 

[TwistedMetalGear]

What PSU are you using?

Be Quiet! Pure Power 12 M 850W

Mine does the same thing - about once a month or so, it seems to want to re-train the RAM. Not often enough to really matter, but still annoying when it happens. How often does it happen for you?

It happened twice in the span of 2 days which is what prompted me to make the thread.

It's a bit slow to post in general. Like maybe 10 seconds before I get a video signal for a normal boot. I just hope these 1 minute outliers are a rarity. Otherwise I can try that memory context restore thing.

 

[chameleoneel]

could be a slight compatibility issue with the RAM/EXPO overclock and your mobo. Sort of like how when you overclock a CPU, once in while you may have missed boot. Do you have the latest bios update?---they often improve memory compatibility.

 

[djstarfox]

Try to disable ALL overclocking... memory, CPU, etc. Boot to OS once with that setting, then cold shutdown. See if that fixes it... My guess would be RAM timings/instability. I've seen RAM age...i.e., must run at lower clocks vs when bought new.