Unusually long time taken until you see the ROG logo when booting

[zenw0lf]

I had a Formula IV with a Core i7 3770k, it booted fast, immediately showing something on screen after pressing the power button.

Now I have a new build with the Crosshair Hero VI, a Ryzen 1700 and 64gb RAM and when I press the ON button, it takes a few seconds before you even see something on the screen, I was wondering if this is normal.


What is your average time before you see something on screen after pressing the ON button on your conputer with this motherboard?

[gupsterg]

1403 beta is same as the one on Asus site, byte for byte, here is video of me doing a compare in a hex editor. Many of the beta turn "Official".

Like said before 0902 is very slow to post. 0079 beta with AGESA 1.0.0.4a was big improvement, then the UEFI with AGESA 1.0.0.6 (9943 onwards) were the same for boot speeds but brought other features/fixes.

[zenw0lf]

gupsterg wrote:
1403 beta is same as the one on Asus site, byte for byte, here is video of me doing a compare in a hex editor. Many of the beta turn "Official".

Like said before 0902 is very slow to post. 0079 beta with AGESA 1.0.0.4a was big improvement, then the UEFI with AGESA 1.0.0.6 (9943 onwards) were the same for boot speeds but brought other features/fixes.

Wow, my time to POST went from ~25 secs to ~10 secs after updating the BIOS from 0902 to 1403!

Thank you! 😄

[sadaharu]

gupsterg wrote:
1403 beta is same as the one on Asus site, byte for byte, here is video of me doing a compare in a hex editor. Many of the beta turn "Official".

Like said before 0902 is very slow to post. 0079 beta with AGESA 1.0.0.4a was big improvement, then the UEFI with AGESA 1.0.0.6 (9943 onwards) were the same for boot speeds but brought other features/fixes.

so what is point of beta - official release then ? If they are not gonna solve anything over it.

Why should people wait a few weeks more ? I mean during that time 1403 could be become more stable, more bugless.

Seriously i dont get it.

[gupsterg]

No worries 🙂 , glad all is well, enjoy 😉 .

The C6H is fantastic board IMO :cool: .

[Sjf2k17]

zenw0lf wrote:
I had a Formula IV with a Core i7 3770k, it booted fast, immediately showing something on screen after pressing the power button.

Now I have a new build with the Crosshair Hero VI, a Ryzen 1700 and 64gb RAM and when I press the ON button, it takes a few seconds before you even see something on the screen, I was wondering if this is normal.


What is your average time before you see something on screen after pressing the ON button on your conputer with this motherboard?

Yeah it's normal I thought it was weird at first, unlike my asus maximus iv extreme-z rog board which booted up super fast, this new asus crosshair vi hero x370 seemed to take a lot longer to boot up slower pre bios until I noticed that it goes through a set of safety check ups first, hence the 3 LED light's under the Q-Code LED screen, it goes through a more secure and thorough "testing" sequence than earlier models. For someone as impatient as me I kind of like it because it's more safer and precise in detecting any issues.

[gupsterg]

If all official releases were bug free would we get new official releases?

An official release is only bug free until one is found.

How many combinations of HW / SW / FW settings exist out in the user base? do you think any vendor can test for all situations?

I don't get how 1403 will get "more stable, more bugless" whilst owners wait for another UEFI release.

Also be aware some issues on UEFI are down to AMD AGESA. Which ASUS or any other vendor has no control on and would have to wait for AMD to implement a fix, then vendors roll out to users.

I have had R7 1700 / C6H from pre-order since launch. I have used every release of UEFI except 2. I have something like 25 UEFIs for C6H. I believe ASUS and AMD have really strived to improve UEFI. Yeah the platform may have been rushed out of the door, but damn price to performance is stonking.

I sold my i5 4690K, which had done 4.9GHz 24/7 on air, ~1yr+ in heavy/lengthy hours of use, for R7 1700. I added very little to the pot of money, an Intel 8C/16T CPU would have no way been in my budget. The R7 1700 gives me as good an experience in gaming as the i5, encoding/f@h/etc it obliterates the i5.

Do you believe other vendors are better UEFI providers?

I can link you plenty of recent posts from Asrock / Gigabyte / MSI AM4 owners which are having issue. Recently on OCN K7 owners thread their boards are bricking. ASUS fixed that issues with C6H on 10/03/17. Tachi still has issues with UEFI parameters which don't work as intended.