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I used to have this problem in my quest for a silent PC: make the loudest thing real quiet - say a passive watercooling rig with no fan and just a quiet aquarium pump, eliminating the CPU fan - and the next loudest becomes “unbearable”, fix that one - special watercooled graphics card, connected to the passive watercooling circuit - and the next loudest one becomes “too noisy”. Fix that one - new quiet power source with extra large slower and quieter fan and, you guessed it, it’s the next loudest noise source that gets on your nerves (in this case, it was harddisks, as all this was many years ago).
Ultimatelly the solution was thinking “out of the box” (in more ways than one) - good quality noise reduction earphones.
Wow, one of the OG old school meme AND used correctly… Haven’t seen one of these in a long time.
I’m not sure what’s up with mine, but it takes like a full 20-30 seconds to get past POST and then another 3 seconds from there to fully boot windows.
Is yours a new AM5 socket based AMD system by any chance?
Yes, why?
I also have a zen4 cpu.
The 30 second boots are memory training. The motherboard is basically training itself on how the DDR5 memory modules respond on every signal wire and it can be inordinately slow depending in memory amount. For whatever reason, AMD DDR5 systems are slower at it than comparable Intel DDR5 systems.
Update your BIOS to the latest version then enabled “Memory Context Restore”. The bios will then save the last training results and stop taking 30 seconds to start up.
