Question Blank screen for 5 minutes on boot before motherboard logo shows up

[rcheulishvil]

so I have this weird problem.

Yesterday, my pc was working fine. Absoluteley great. It has been working great for years now.

today, I turn it on and it shows a blank screen. The blank screen which is black but still lighted up, stays for about 5 minutes, then I see motherboard logo for another minute or so and then windows loads up slowly. Once I log in, my taskbar also takes about a minute to fully load and display all the icons and then PC works just fine. Like nothing happened.

But what's happening, why is it taking so long to boot?

I tried resetting the bios - no luck. I'm also unable to go to BIOS settings because once the bios logo comes up - it's already loading. I wanted to try and update the BIOS, are there other ways to get in bios settings than pressing delete key while booting up?

My PC:
i7 12700f
RTX 3070
24 gigs of ram - 1x8 and 1x16 (they worked fine for years now) - I took them out and put it in again.
Samsung sata SSD for for Windows.
I purchased new PSU about a month ago - BeQuiet! 850W

I've read somewhere that motherboard battery might be dead and that's the reason this is happening?

Also, if I go to my Windows restore point - which I created also about a month ago, will that delete all the programs and games I've installed since? Or will it just reset Windows properties. But I'm also not sure that Windows has anything to do with this issue.

 

[rgd1101]

how full is the ssd?
check cpu temp?

 

[rcheulishvil]

Solved it.

It was motherboard battery.

Such a silly thing. MSI claims to be gamer pro BLA BLA and can't place a single notification somewhere about changing your battery. I almost dismantled my whole PC. Hope someone who encounters same issue finds this thread.

Just change the mobo battery guys!

 

[rcheulishvil]

how full is the ssd?
check cpu temp?

Okay, problem started occurring again. I changed the new battery and it's still the same. I also have 2 SSD's and 3 HDD's plugged in and windows consistently doesn't recognize only one of them.

I have brand new AIO and CPU temp is not an issue. Once the windows loads, the computer is working as usual - I game brand-new titles, no hitches whatsoever.

There's 67GB of free space on my C disk.

I don't understand why this issue got fixed with changing the mobo battery and why one certain HDD is not visible now. Maybe I'll just plug it in again?

In Disk Management it shows up as:

Disk 1
Unknown

Not initialized.

Any attempt to initialize it (MBR/GPT) error is thrown that Disk doesn't exist. Yet it's showing up in Disk Management somehow.


UPDATE:

So one of my HDD's (one that was visible) was connected via USB enclosure. I disconnected that and now everything's back to normal and invisible HDD is online.

I think, once my battery ran out the first time, some settings got reset and PC was trying to boot from USB, or maybe HDD via USB was confusing it? I don't know. But now I'm afraid to plug it in again :d

Additional UPDATE:

The other HDD is still disconnected. Now it appears in My PC but when I click folders on it error is displayed: F:\Program Files is not accessible.

A device which does not exist was speicified

:/

 

[aoc00]

Hey, rcheulishvil,

I had somewhat similar issue with my old intel dh67cl MB. The issue started after using the OS Windows 10, which was not released when MB was on sale. When I switch on the PC, it takes you windows loading screen and stay there like that for 2 mins or so then loads to desktop screen and after that point everything is just normal. Had this issue for almost 7 years, last month I did a BIOS update and it fixed the issue, now PC boots up with in 10 seconds, I also had to disable fast boot up because this MB was having compatibility issue with Windows 10.

Hope this helps.

 

[rcheulishvil]

FINAL VERDICT:

So I took apart my PC. Removed the HDD that wasn't appearing, without it, PC boots just fine. Put the problematic HDD in my USB enclosure, plugged it in my Laptop (PC wants no business with this hdd), ran HDD sentinel and my oh my... it's at 0% health.

I'm kind of shocked, I have HDD's much older than this one, that are still at 94-95% Health. What happened with this guy I don't know.

Once again, I reconnected it to my PC, it booted just fine, but HDD sentinel here is also showing the same 0% health. I guess, I need to throw it in the trash :/

It's kind of functioning now, but at any restart, I might run into the same problem. So, defective HDD was the culprit.

 

[aoc00]

Wow, what a coincidence,

Once my MB showed message it's time to change my bios battery, I went to near by shop and got a battery and changed it, after couple of days PC started throwing random errors and issues, won't boot up, if boots up won't show HDD, ram errors etc, later found out that it was bad battery, changed the battery to a reputed one from a known shop, everything went back to normal, but my perfect HDD went kaput! Fortunately I could use recovery tools software and get my important data back. That was my last HDD, now it's all SSD.

Glad you found a solution to your problem.

Cheers.

 

[rcheulishvil]

Wow, what a coincidence,

Once my MB showed message it's time to change my bios battery, I went to near by shop and got a battery and changed it, after couple of days PC started throwing random errors and issues, won't boot up, if boots up won't show HDD, ram errors etc, later found out that it was bad battery, changed the battery to a reputed one from a known shop, everything went back to normal, but my perfect HDD went kaput! Fortunately I could use recovery tools software and get my important data back. That was my last HDD, now it's all SSD.

Glad you found a solution to your problem.

Cheers.

Is your mobo MSI?