Hi. I have an older computer,everytime i turn on the computer i have to wait a minute and half before the computer starts up everthing fine after that. It is like on a timedelay. The Bios are American Megatrends Amibios setup. I need help please with that. Thanks Horst

It could be a number of things - it kind of depends "where" in the boot process it is pausing. I will assume that it is before you get the Windows spash screen. Usually that indicates some kind of hardware issue which may or may not be normal. You could have a piece of hardware which the computer is having trouble initializing. Or, it could be completely normal. I have a PCI IDE card which will add more than 30 seconds to the boot process as it detects and initializes the drives attached to it. I would suggest removing all non essential hardware devices and see if the boot time improves (audio cards, network cards, non OS hard drives, CD/DVD drives, etc.). If the boot time does improve start adding devices back in 1 at a time and see if the boot time increases significantly. Once you have identified any devices that are significantly increasing the boot time you can further diagnose from there. Perhaps the device has a firmware upgrade or newer drivers that will help. Michael J

Hi Thanks for the quick responce. It is not before boot up.If i push the button,there is no electricity i have to wait a minute then it will start up like normal. Thanks Horst