Question Motherboard (Z77A-G43) takes a long time (3-5minutes) to post or doesn’t post at all sometimes.

[V4NI7Y]

I am in a bit of complicated situation here, I am having an online course and suddenly my pc decides to take a dump on me.

Basically it only posts after 3-5minutes and sometimes it doesn’t post at all.

Troubleshooting steps I have done:
Swap CPU, swap RAM, swap PSU, turn off all usb devices and unnecessary ssds and hdds. Same results. I even tried swapping the bios battery. Having no panel connectors on at all nothing.
Bios is the latest one available, it’s a fairly old mother board now! So I don’t think it’s the bios version haha. I also even tried to boot it off the on board gpu only, still the same symptoms. Even swapped cases.

Edit: Forgot to mention I also plugged the storage into other sata ports, and I also tried to have it boot without any storage as to even boot with other windows boot device that did not belong to my PC.

Is it safe to call my old reliable motherboard a dying senior citizen? (I am in a bit of a pickle here sadly I’d hope it wasn’t the case… I need this thing for my course.)

Specs: i7 3770 CPU
GTX 1660S
MSI Z77A-G43 Motherboard (BIOS version 2.13)
Hyper X Fury 2x8GB 1600mhz RAM (I bought these new not long ago, I had 4 red ones that stopped working on this motherboard)
MSI MAG A650BN 650W PSU (it’s close to a year old)
3 Kingston A400 SSDs 120GB, 240GB and 480GB and a small HDD of 1TB

 

[Lutfij]

MSI Z77A-G43 Motherboard
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Bios is the latest one available, it’s a fairly old mother board now!
What BIOS version are you currently on for your motherboard?

You forgot to mention the storage that you have on your build + the age of the PSU in your build.

 

[rocktalkrock]

The problem could be your boot drive is starting to fail.
What do you see on screen in the 3-5minutes your PC is booting up?
Have you gone into the BIOS to make sure your boot drive is first in the Boot Priority?

 

[V4NI7Y]

MSI Z77A-G43 Motherboard
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Bios is the latest one available, it’s a fairly old mother board now!
What BIOS version are you currently on for your motherboard?

You forgot to mention the storage that you have on your build + the age of the PSU in your build.

My bad I have edited my post with more details as requested.

 

[V4NI7Y]

The problem could be your boot drive is starting to fail.
What do you see on screen in the 3-5minutes your PC is booting up?
Have you gone into the BIOS to make sure your boot drive is first in the Boot Priority?

Issue is I can’t even get the bios splash screen to show, that’s my issue it takes ages or it doesn’t initialise at all, it boots into windows fine whenever it manages to get pass the cpu and ram check.

 

[rocktalkrock]

Issue is I can’t even get the bios splash screen to show, that’s my issue it takes ages or it doesn’t initialise at all, it boots into windows fine whenever it manages to get pass the cpu and ram check.

Try booting with only the boot drive connected. If that does not work try booting with no drives connected to see if you can get into the BIOS.

 

[V4NI7Y]

Try booting with only the boot drive connected. If that does not work try booting with no drives connected to see if you can get into the BIOS.

I have tried it, sadly, same thing…

 

[rocktalkrock]

I have tried it, sadly, same thing…

Have you tried booting with your graphics card plugged into the 2nd x16 slot?

 

[V4NI7Y]

Have you tried booting with your graphics card plugged into the 2nd x16 slot?

I haven’t tried that no, because I tried the igpu I assumed that was off the question, to be fair. But I will give a try because why not.

 

[V4NI7Y]

Have you tried booting with your graphics card plugged into the 2nd x16 slot?

Welp… as I imagined that didn’t work. Only if… it is safe to say that my motherboard has a defect somewhere that affects the ram portion. Because when I manage to make it boot it works so well, it’s bizarre behaviour, seen everyone have these symptoms and theirs get fixed with simple things like a failing hard drive or a keyboard but I swapped everything on it hell even the motherboard by itself almost with just another different known working stick of ram and known working cpu…