[SOLVED] Why is Graphics Card Causing Slow Windows 10 Startup? Un-fixable?

[incmachine]

Windows 10 startup is very slow.
Blinking Cursor in the upper left corner goes on for a while, before the MSI Pro-Series boot screen.

Then, finally, the Windows 10 startup screen.

It seemed as though the PC is taking time to run through all possible boot-up options, so I tried unplugging everything except the HDMI monitor.
That didn't work, so I took out the graphics card and that seemed to remove the first booting phase (Blinking Cursor).

Now it goes straight to the MSI Pro-Series start screen, then Windows 10 boots.


Is it possible to fix the slow booting time (i.e. remove the Blinking Cursor phase of the startup process) if the Graphics Card is part of the system?

Specs:

Motherboard: MSI b450m-vdh Pro Max
Graphics Card: MSI GeForce GT 730 Fermi DDR3 4GB DirectX 12 (N730-4GD3V2)
RAM: G.SKILL Ripjaws V Series 8GB 288-Pin DDR4 SDRAM DDR4 2400 (PC4 19200) Desktop Memory Model F4-2400C15S-8GVR
Hard Drive: Western Digital WD20EARS 2.0TB SATA 64 MB Hard drive

 

[Colif]

if its before the flash screen, its before boot order i think. BIOS has to check all the devices attached

similar problem with same card - https://forums.tomshardware.com/threads/slow-boot-after-new-gpu.3155839/

can you test card in another PC and see if it acts the same? I suspect its the card not responding to the BIOS that is slowing the process down.

 

[incmachine]

can you test card in another PC and see if it acts the same? I suspect its the card not responding to the BIOS that is slowing the process down.

Hi, thank you for responding!

I put the Graphics Card into an old HP Case swap (first PC I ever tried working on), and the blinking cursor was still there (although the time the Blinking Cursor phase took did seem to be shorter).

Just out of curiosity, is this something that can be fixed?
Or is this graphics card just doomed for the dustbin?

Since the card itself does seem to work after booting up, I would hate to waste it - and I like the challenge of trying to get it to work smoothly if possible.

 

[Colif]

if it happens on 2 different PC, its the card.

Its possible it will keep working fine like this forever or one day just not respond.

GT730 isn't what I would call a great GPU so you might be able to get a better one by time it does decide to stop working.

I would leave pc on in hibernate or sleep mode so it doesn't have to go to bios and boot as much.

another similar case - link

BIOS update on PC might help.

GT730 just seem to slow boot down - https://www.dell.com/community/Desk...-up-before-BIOS-how-to-we-negate/td-p/4737236

but its not consistent enough for me to find a solution. Not enough cases of it out there. Might only happen to some of them.