BIOS 3.50 questions

Bartman wrote: I have the B850M Steel Legend board and BIOS 3.50 installed. I have noticed slow boot to Windows 11, last BIOS time in Task Manager (shown when clicking on Startup apps) is between 99 and 105 seconds for every boot. I noticed a white non-blinking underline or cursor at the upper right corner after turning on the PC plus a white LED is lit on the motherboard during the time this cursor is shown. After the white LED is turned off, the boot continues with showing the AsRock text and Windows is starting up. I have tried to find a solution (e.g. disable Fast Boot, no effect) and this is very painful because it also takes 100+ seconds to enter the BIOS each time I tried some settings. Finally I found the solution: Disabling this BIOS setting reduced the Last Boot Time to 14 seconds: USB Mass Storage Driver Support You will find this in the Advanced USB Configuration BIOS section. I also tested if the new BIOS 4.03 would have this setting disabled or not, and yes it does. You must disable this BIOS setting if you want to have the last boot time reducked. This has nothing to do with memory training (with enabled USB Mass Storage Device Support and memory training ongoing, the last boot time will be about 125 seconds). I am well aware that no one at AsRock will be able to help with slow boot times because this topic is so difficult to understand and diagnose, but finally for me disabling the USB Mass Storage Device Support prevented me from going out and buying another motherboard that does not have such a strange behaviour with this feature enabled by default in the BIOS.

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I have the B850M Steel Legend board and BIOS 3.50 installed.

I have noticed slow boot to Windows 11, last BIOS time in Task Manager (shown when clicking on Startup apps) is between 99 and 105 seconds for every boot.

I noticed a white non-blinking underline or cursor at the upper right corner after turning on the PC plus a white LED is lit on the motherboard during the time this cursor is shown.

After the white LED is turned off, the boot continues with showing the AsRock text and Windows is starting up.

I have tried to find a solution (e.g. disable Fast Boot, no effect) and this is very painful because it also takes 100+ seconds to enter the BIOS each time I tried some settings.

Finally I found the solution:

Disabling this BIOS setting reduced the Last Boot Time to 14 seconds:

USB Mass Storage Driver Support

You will find this in the Advanced USB Configuration BIOS section.

I also tested if the new BIOS 4.03 would have this setting disabled or not, and yes it does.

You must disable this BIOS setting if you want to have the last boot time reducked. This has nothing to do with memory training (with enabled USB Mass Storage Device Support and memory training ongoing, the last boot time will be about 125 seconds).

I am well aware that no one at AsRock will be able to help with slow boot times because this topic is so difficult to understand and diagnose, but finally for me disabling the USB Mass Storage Device Support prevented me from going out and buying another motherboard that does not have such a strange behaviour with this feature enabled by default in the BIOS.

After a few days, the PC did not return from sleep mode. I had to turn the PC back on.
I went back to BIOS 3.40.
BIOS version 3.50 is causing a lot of problems. In addition to what I mentioned above, there is the problem of slow booting in Windows 11.
The only description on the website about BIOS 3.50 is the Update AGESA to ComboAM5 1.2.0.3g. I see no reason to update, as the system runs more stably on BIOS 3.40. At least for the B650M-HDV/M.2 motherboard.

So... did anyone find something else different or working differently.
For example, I am very irritated that my Taichi X870e starts Windows in more than 40 seconds... Why the hell do I have a gen 4 NVME for...?

BTW: Asrock has extended the warranty period for Japanese customers from two to three years.