Long Bios Time

[Nocte]

Hello,

 

I was wondering how I could shorten my BIOS time on my Biostar X370GTN + Ryzen 5 1600 (stock). Currently the average BIOS time I get is 16 seconds (which is more than the time the PC takes to go from the splash screen to the fully loaded desktop).

 

I am still using the AGESA 1.0.0.4 BIOS, I didn't update as my RAM is running perfectly fine at 3200Mhz. Do you think that updating the BIOS could improve things? I have read around that a lot of Ryzen systems have a long-ish BIOS time (but that was when Ryzen was first released), is it still common?

[A Silver]

MSI has a program called Fastboot (which does as the name suggests) so see if you can find something like that for your motherboard. Only issue though is that MSI fastboot made my PC blue screen constantly when I had it enabled.

[Nocte]

26 minutes ago, A Silver said:

MSI has a program called Fastboot (which does as the name suggests) so see if you can find something like that for your motherboard. Only issue though is that MSI fastboot made my PC blue screen constantly when I had it enabled.

There is a fastboot option in the BIOS, but I refrained from using it to avoid problems such as the one you listed.

[johndms]

2 hours ago, Eibe said:

I was wondering how I could shorten my BIOS time on my Biostar X370GTN + Ryzen 5 1600 (stock). Currently the average BIOS time I get is 16 seconds (which is more than the time the PC takes to go from the splash screen to the fully loaded desktop)

It seems all Ryzen boards simply have long bios times. Mine is currently 13.5, but I've never actually paid much attention to it as I rarely ever reboot. I use Sleep more often than anything else.

2 hours ago, Eibe said:

I am still using the AGESA 1.0.0.4 BIOS, I didn't update as my RAM is running perfectly fine at 3200Mhz. Do you think that updating the BIOS could improve things? I have read around that a lot of Ryzen systems have a long-ish BIOS time (but that was when Ryzen was first released), is it still common?

I update my bios as soon as a new one is released, but I can understand your reluctance to update if things are working fine. Personally, I like when things go wrong. I like being able to figure it out and use that knowledge to help others. I do seem to recall 1.0.0.6 improving my bios times a bit, but only a second or two.

 

I don't know anything about Biostar's effectiveness in releasing quality bios updates that fix actual problems, so I can't really recommend updating or not. One would think things would get better as time passed, but that's never always the case.