Aside from memory tests, in my experience, sometimes slowness can be caused by a disk controller ROM (often on a SCSI controller) that gets invoked during the POST that slows things down - particularly if it also enumerates what is on the SCSI bus.
On 8/6/2015 7:35 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote: > On the subject of slow booting, perhaps someone can help me with a very > annoying case of the slowboots. > > I've got a dual slot-1 P3 system here--a Supermicro P6DGE, which uses a > 440GX chipset and 2GB of registered SDRAM with two 900MHz CPUs. When it > finally get around to s booting, it's a great workhorse, with 2, > count'em 2 well-behaved ISA slots. It's frisky enough to run Windows 7 > and proudly proclaims that it was made in the USA. > > The problem is, that even with the "Fast boot" BIOS setting, it takes > well over a minute to get to the point where it tries to boot. > > Does anyone have a clue on why it's so slow? Even getting the POST down > to 15-20 seconds would be wonderful. > > --Chuck > >