Inaccurate BIOS startup time? Reads '543.5 seconds' in Task Manager

[weepingprophets]

When I boot my computer, my BIOS startup time always reads 400-500+ seconds in Task Manager, but it should be somewhere under 10 seconds. Whats this about? Its quite strange to see. Has anyone else see this before? (i'm sure someone has)

 

[Colif]

check to see what time your bios is showing, it might be slow

http://www.howtogeek.com/265623/what-is-last-bios-time-in-the-windows-task-manager/

 

[weepingprophets]

check to see what time your bios is showing, it might be slow

http://www.howtogeek.com/265623/what-is-last-bios-time-in-the-windows-task-manager/

Could you elaborate for me? In my BIOS setting there is an option to enable a faster BIOS boot time, but I think you meant that whatever measures my boot time is slow, giving me ridiculous numbers. Am I right? Also, thanks for the response!

 

[Colif]

i think the time in your bios may be wrong as I would think it gives Microsoft a time it handed control to windows and then windows works out the difference between what its time is and the time it was given.

If you actual PC boots normally I wouldn't believe that other time. If it takes about 10 minutes to boot then it is likely to be correct.

Start up time is only shown in UEFI bios capable machines so it isn't even an important figure to windows, just extra information it gives provided by motherboard.

 

[Colif]

it could be worse: http://www.overclock.net/t/1583756/strange-boot-time-thousands-sec-windows-10

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10-power/windows-10-pro-x64-strange-startup-time/fd07bbb1-622f-48d6-97eb-e732424d24ed

Although I'm not sure why you are getting it displayed as 0.0 seconds, the purpose of the "Last BIOS time" is to tell you how long it took to load the BIOS, it is the amount of time between pressing the power button, and seeing the screen that indicates that windows is loading.

http://superuser.com/questions/543039/last-bios-time-on-task-manager

you could turn on fast boot in bios but as I said, if your boot is normal then I wouldn't worry about this time.