Installed more ram, now BIOS boots very slowly

[spierce7]

I just installed 64 GB of ram on my computer (up from 16 GB). Now my computer takes much longer to display the bios splash screen (almost 1 minute), and if I press F2, asking to show the bios, it also takes a very long time 45+ seconds. It will eventually boot, and it does recognize all 64GB of ECC ram in quad channel configuration.

I have an AsRock X99 Extreme4/3.1 motherboard. I've gone into bios and made sure the memory check is disabled on startup. All 4 sticks of memory were bought together as a package from the manufacturer.

Is this normal? Any recommendations on what I could do to get my boot times back to normal, or is this just the cost of adding a bunch of ram?

 

[Tradesman1]

Do you have the latest BIOS? What CPU? If it's not an Xeon, then it may be problematic. With an i5 or i7 it doesn't have full ECC support according to the specs

 

[damric]

I think I would personally leave it powered on.

 

[spierce7]

Do you have the latest BIOS? What CPU? If it's not an Xeon, then it may be problematic. With an i5 or i7 it doesn't have full ECC support according to the specs

I have a Xeon e5-1650 v3. I believe I have the latest bios. I haven't checked for a few weeks though. After installing new ram, is it worth hitting the reset CMOS switch?

 

[Tradesman1]

Could give it a try, also make sure you have the latest ZChipset drivers for the mobo

 

[spierce7]

Could give it a try, also make sure you have the latest ZChipset drivers for the mobo

Would drivers effect the boot time of the motherboard's bios?

 

[Tradesman1]

Yes

 

[spierce7]

Clearing the cmos seems to have speed the bios boot back up. My computer doesn't seem to be booting now though.

 

[Tradesman1]

May have to reset the primary boot drive

 

[spierce7]

May have to reset the primary boot drive

How would I do that?

 

[Tradesman1]

In the BIOS, set the OS drive as the primary boot drive