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The SSD is not responsible for POSTing. This is integrated on the motherboard. Find out what key grants access to the BIOS and smash it as soon as you hit the power button.

To preface this, I'd like to say I have an SSD in my system which my OS resides on. One minor issue though.. My PC boots too fast to get into the BIOS (which is in essence a good problem to have I suppose). I would like to go into my BIOS in order to reconfigure a few things, but I can't, as my PC always flies by initial boot. Any help?

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What mobo do you have?

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To preface this, I'd like to say I have an SSD in my system which my OS resides on. One minor issue though.. My PC boots to fast to get into the BIOS (which is in essence a good problem to have I suppose). I would like to go into my BIOS in order to reconfigure a few things, but I can't, as my PC always flies by initial boot. Any help?

Hold the bios button(Delete, F2, whatever your board uses) as soon as you press the power button.

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i dont think is the ssd fault, bios always have a set up time that cannot be skipped before the boot beggins

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What mobo do you have?

MSI B75MA-P45

 

Hold the bios button(Delete, F2, whatever your board uses) as soon as you press the power button.

Thanks, I'll make sure to try that

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I wish I had your problem xD 

 

Try tapping the button as soon as your computer boots 

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SSD's dont make the computer post faster. You have fast boot turned on.

 

If you have no luck getting into the BIOS, unplug your computer and remove the CMOS battery from the motherboard for about 1 minute and then put it back in.

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you enabled the fast boot option in the bios. this skips the "press del to enter UEFI" screen. you need to download your mobo's specific software that will allow you to reboot to UEFI

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Does an SSD really affect the POST that much? Nothing on the SSD is being loaded during POST. From my experience, the only time a storage device affects boot time in POST is when its not working at all and is causing bios to hang when reading it.

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Holding the button as soon as you start your computer should just work fine.

I think this is probably due to "Intel rapid start technology" or something along those lines. Try to search for it in the bios options and see if it's enabled.

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When I hold the BIOS button, it seems to get stuck in a loop, and doesn't enter the BIOS, it looks like it's about to but then it restarts the process. When I let go of the button it skips straight to the Windows log in screen.

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You don't hold the button, you just press it at the right time. Look up the manual for your mobo to get into BIOS, its not the SSD's fault

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You have fast boot enabled it seems which leads me to assume you are using windows 8, the easiest way to go into the UEFI in this case is to press CTRL-ALT-DEL then while holding shift click the power button in the bottom right and while still holding shift press reboot, it will boot into the Windows 8 recovery shell which has an option to boot to the UEFI.

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The SSD is not responsible for POSTing. This is integrated on the motherboard. Find out what key grants access to the BIOS and smash it as soon as you hit the power button.

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You have fast boot enabled it seems which leads me to assume you are using windows 8, the easiest way to go into the UEFI in this case is to press CTRL-ALT-DEL then while holding shift click the power button in the bottom right and while still holding shift press reboot, it will boot into the Windows 8 recovery shell which has an option to boot to the UEFI.

 

If you're on Windows 8, just do this

I'm on Windows 7 Professional

 

The SSD is not responsible for POSTing. This is integrated on the motherboard. Find out what key grants access to the BIOS and smash it as soon as you hit the power button.

I'll try it again, perhaps I'm not hitting it at just the right time

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I'm on Windows 7 Professional

 

I'll try it again, perhaps I'm not hitting it at just the right time

Press F11 as soon as you press the power button.

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Thanks to everyone for their help, got it squared away.

Beat me to it.

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SSD's dont make the computer post faster. You have fast boot turned on.

 

If you have no luck getting into the BIOS, unplug your computer and remove the CMOS battery from the motherboard for about 1 minute and then put it back in.

 

Some will fly straight into UEFI booting from the first storage drive without even showing a proper boot screen, and without needing fast boot enabled.

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