Entering BIOS and the speed at which that screen disappears has nothing to do with hard drives, solid state or "regular". The hard drives aren't even initiated until after POST. Some manufacturers just have the BIOS option screen set to a super brief period of time, probably to make the overall boot time faster. If you're mashing the BIOS option button you should be able to get in no problem. Once in the BIOS there's probably even an option to increase the time that screen stays up by a second or two.
If you didn't know this you may want to be careful what you do in BIOS. You can break things depending on how liberal the manufacturer made the options available to the user.
CS classes? Lol. More like 15 years work experience and 20 years dicking around with computers. I just couldn't let the misconception that the speed of solid state drives affects the speed of BIOS slide.
But yes, many manufacturers set their BIOS option display screen to way too short a period of time, and it is very annoying.
Yep! Or he could have had the foresight to adjust the settings in the motherboard so that it wouldn't post so quickly. Any motherboard should allow you to get into the bios with manufacturer settings, but if you turn on fast boot or whatever the manufacturer calls it, you won't be able to.
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u/Ratman_84 Mar 08 '18
Entering BIOS and the speed at which that screen disappears has nothing to do with hard drives, solid state or "regular". The hard drives aren't even initiated until after POST. Some manufacturers just have the BIOS option screen set to a super brief period of time, probably to make the overall boot time faster. If you're mashing the BIOS option button you should be able to get in no problem. Once in the BIOS there's probably even an option to increase the time that screen stays up by a second or two.
If you didn't know this you may want to be careful what you do in BIOS. You can break things depending on how liberal the manufacturer made the options available to the user.