Excessively long boot times

[FlightRisk]

So for a while now my PC has been taking an age to boot (~9 minutes to boot including through BIOS) and plugging things into the USB ports do not detect for 1-2 minutes (unsure if these are related issues), otherwise the PC has apparently been performing fine. I am hoping somebody here has a better idea than me on where the problem is.
I have tried a few things on and off since the problem first surfaced a couple of years ago (I'm lazy).

I have used various tools to check the SSD for issues and no problems seem to be present. I also flashed the BIOS with the current version today and there is no change, there is a more recent version of the BIOS available but It doesn't seem to let me use that version and I had not updated the BIOS since before the boot issues first developed.

 

PC Specs

Motherboard: Asus P8P67 Pro (BIOS Version - 2302)

CPU:              I5-3570

Ram:             Corsair vengence DDR3-1600 16gb (2x8GB)

GPU:             EVGA GTX650ti Boost

OS:               Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit

Boot drive:    Samsung 840 EVO 250GB

PSU:            Silverstone SST-ST1000-p 1000W

[OliverKunnington]

have you tried resetting the motherboard by CMOS? That should cover the long bios boot up time, on the operating system bootup time try entering safe mode and see if the problem persists.

[OliverKunnington]

or it could be a virus, do you have any kind of antivirus software?

[mariushm]

What power supply are you using?

 

Bad quality 5v SB (stand-by) could be a reason for slow boot or lots of errors during initialization of some devices on motherboard during boot.

Also try resetting the bios to defaults and then going in boot order to disable "boot from network" or boot from anything besides hard drives and ssd drives.

 

A virus won't affect your computer during boot, before the operating system loads.

 

The bios and the chipset are powered 24/7 from the 5v SB circuit, which is always running 24/7 so it's not uncommon for power supplies to have a poorly functioning 5v SB circuit but work fine after the motherboards sends the signal to turn on and deliver all the other voltages.

[FlightRisk]

 

36 minutes ago, OliverKunnington said:

 

have you tried resetting the motherboard by CMOS? That should cover the long bios boot up time, on the operating system bootup time try entering safe mode and see if the problem persists.

 

Haven't tried that yet but I will, I get deathly afraid of messing with things and breaking it when I haven't done it before. 
Also will that not reset my BIOS version to factory default? if that does it could be a problem as I am an idiot who bought a SandyBridge Motherboard and an IvyBridge CPU and the factory BIOS won't even POST so I wouldn't even get into the BIOS to bring it back to a compatible version. Also no SandyBridge CPU around to use

30 minutes ago, OliverKunnington said:

 

or it could be a virus, do you have any kind of antivirus software?

 

Would a virus really affect things inside of the BIOS?

24 minutes ago, mariushm said:

 

What power supply are you using?

 

Sorry forgot about that in the description (will ad it) I am using the Silverstone 1000w sst-st1000-p. Please don't judge me on some of the hardware choices, I was even more naive when I bought it all than I am now

24 minutes ago, mariushm said:

Also try resetting the bios to defaults

Do you mean clearing CMOS? 

[OliverKunnington]

@FlightRisk

a virus can't affect the bios, I only thought of a virus for the operating system booting time. The CMOS battery is a battery used for storing all the bios and motherboard data(ex. time, bios passwords etc), I thought maybe you could try resetting it and see if anything changes.

 

[mariushm]

Taking out the battery or moving the "reset bios" jumper bios from off to on for a few seconds basically does the same thing ... what you would do when you select "reset to defaults" from bios.

They're alternatives for when your system is so screwed up you can't even go in bios (for example maybe if due to overclocking the usb controller the keyboard is attached to no longer functions properly so your keyboard isn't working in bios).

If you try to reset the bios settings by taking out the battery, you'd have to disconnect the computer's power supply from mains as well, otherwise the bios would often still be powered from 5v SB from the power supply, so the settings would not be lost.

 

Also, if you reset using the jumper or by taking out the battery, for safety you should STILL go afterwards in BIOS and hit that "reset to default" option, as taking out the battery or moving the jumper simply disconnects the memory from power, but some memory cells could still retains bits of information for more than a few seconds.

 

FlightRisk , BIOS-es these days are relatively safe, and have very reasonable default values. Resetting the bios in most cases will just change the boot order to a default value (like searching for operating system from DVD before searching the hard drive, enabling booting from network and so on) .. some BIOSes also reset the memory frequency to a lower value, like 1333 Mhz for DDR3 or 2166 Mhz for DDR4. After resetting to default values you can easily go back and change those settings to your liking, and in the case of memory you can select there something like "auto" or "from SPD" to have the BIOS read the memory settings from the memory chips and configure them right.

 

The power supply is overkill for your system which uses 200-250 watts maybe.. and it's not a crap brand so it should still be fine. Still, if you have a second power supply available (or can borrow one from a friend), it may be worth switching power supplies to see if that makes a difference.

[FlightRisk]

@mariushm

 

Yeah, I had a half decent idea what clearing CMOS would do. I just had a concern about it resetting the BIOS to the factory version. As that would bring me a whole different set of problems I couldn't fix easily.

I will probably try it tomorrow (it's late here and I have work really early)

I don't have access to another PSU right now so I will have to try other options if possible

Yeah the power supply is way overkill. when I originally chose the specs I didn't really know what I was doing or looking for. I'm not going to share what CPU cooler I have installed because that is another stupid decision considering I run a locked CPU. could've got a much better GPU or CPU balance if I knew then what I know now.

[FlightRisk]

So sadly another BIOS update and clearing the CMOS didn't do anything. And I don't have access to another power supply. 

Any other suggestions or troubleshooting ideas would be appreciated