Strange issue: 20 seconds to POST on cold start?
I am not sure what possibilities lie hidden with the question posed as I have not been able to find any answers elsewhere.
My PC has always been somewhat sluggish when cold starting but even more so recently.... from restarts or from sleep mode the PC has no problems getting up to speed loading either Windows XP Home or Windows 7 x64 Home premium (like 4-5 second post from restart to windows loading and then 8-10 or so for windows 7 load)
However when cold starting the PC it seems to lag for nearly 20 seconds with the fans on maximum before they calm down, monitor starts receiving and post info shows up. From there I have no problems. So the question is what kind of issues could be causing such a lag from cold start only.
PC Specs:
AMD Phenom II X4 920, stock 2.8 GHz
Gigabyte MA-770-UD3 motherboard
4Gb G-Skill DDR2-1033 RAM
Radeon X1800XT
Corsair HX520W PSU - maybe important?
Sunbeam Core Contact Freezer CPU Cooler - maybe important?
Western Digital Caviar Black 750Gb hard drive
Another WD 80Gb drive in there
I dual boot XP and Windows 7 from the one drive with different partitions for each OS.
Any ideas?