PC Freezing and Slow Before Boot

[JMASTERJ]

Hey guys.... working on a clients PC, and a bit weird here, havent had many issues over the years like this.

• You start the PC
  It freezes forever on the startup screen while it says press Delete or F2 for setup
  When you press either, no response but takes about 10+ minutes to get to to the BIOS screen, where I dont see anything usual
  With this, can I even do a memtest or any other test, seems more like a MB or memory failure?

Any suggestions will be great help, thanks!

[DaveLembke]

Seen weird stuff like this when the CMOS battery is borderline it causes the BIOS to wig out. I'd check the CMOS battery and if lesser than 3 VDC replace it and see if this helps.

[patio]

Then run MemTest...
Then run HDD diags with the Free app from the HDD manuf. site...

Then we'll see.

[J_Brown]

I have similar problem on my laptop. It freezes for the first time I try to launch it, so I need to turn it of and start again. At the second time it starts normally. To my mind, this is caused by Windows 10. Previously it worked under Windows 7 and there were no such problem at all.