Are there any boot priority settings to change? I've found that sometimes if you set your boot drive as the first drive to boot from (so it doesn't need to check for a USB or optical drive), it speeds things up
My laptop doesn't restart unless it's installing updates. Sleep mode whoo. That said, that's a pretty slow post time, seems sketchy.
This. And some computers do a pretty long test of all the parts in the computer, you can also sometimes turn those off. I had a desktop that would check all devices (RAM, HDD, HDD SMART, USB devices, etc.) for issues before booting into OS. Not sure if you laptop does that, and if you can turn them off.
Yeah, you should be able to disable POST in most modern UEFI BIOSes, just find the "fast/quick boot" option if there is one.
Combo reply to all of you.
It isn't an issue. It's with my setup. It was more of a #FirstWorldProblem rant than a problem
My computer has different levels of POST checking, normal, thorough, and minimal with boot screen or not option. I keep it on normal.
Also, I disable secureboot, fastboot, and some of the S# sleep options because it screws with being able to access UEFI.
I have multiple operating systems installed on a PCIe SSD which does add to POST and booting the main EFI.cfg because it is still a technology that isn't as seemlessly integrated. I have a list of 3-4 boot managers long that tell my PC where to boot to for what OS on what partition.
I also gave my POST and decent POST screen time delay for keyboard as I was doing OS installs in the past.
The fastest bootup modes on my laptop were RAID mode (computer doesn't have to be in RAID, most new laptops/desktops ship with SATA set to RAID). But because of the other OS, Ubuntuu and other things, I had to modify it to AHCI and set some stuff up which further makes POST longer. Also, it has two GPUs which will often add a slight bit to boot in POST and whatnot.
It isn't a long long POST at all. Just slightly more than I'd like.
