Boot screen appear twice before Windows Starting up

[siegfx]

Hey Guys,

I just assembled a new PC, the board that I am using is Maximus IV Extreme-Z.
My System is on the Vertex 3 running on the Intel Chipset, my Marvell Chipset got nothing plugged in.

However whenever I Start the PC, the Boot screen appears (press del to enter setup, etc), then it looked like it was checking on all the SATA drives, then reboots, showed the boot screen again, its doing similiar kind of checkings, then finally going into windows.

The whole boot and reboot took less than 5 seconds, but Is that normal?
Plus i noticed that on 1 of the boot, it was saying like nothing is detected on the marvell chipset.
So I am assuming that the first boot checks on Marvell, second boot checks on Intel chipset.
But It just confuses me.
Please share your thoughts guys.. Thanks!

[ilya]

If you don't want to see it, disable your secondary SATA chipset in BIOS.

[siegfx]

I have disabled the Marvell controller in BIOS already, but it still boots up twice.. but the difference is, on the second boot, there is no checking being done anymore.. just some underscore on the top left corner. =/
what is wrong here? =/

[LaughingCrow]

It's been a while and my memory is foggy about the details. But IIRC, I was getting a double boot with memory settings in the BIOS that weren't quite right. That is, the system would boot and hiccup with the settings, reset it and reboot with the revised settings - once I changed the settings, it went back to a normal single boot. If I remember more details I'll post, but memory or other settings in the BIOS might be a place to double check.

[G777]

To fix double post: There is an option in the bios in advanced mode.

Under Boot change the setting for Option ROM Messages from Force bios to Keep Current.... should work

[siegfx]

Thanks Guys... Changing the Option ROM Messages to "Keep Current" fixed it! XD Didn't know that before.. hehehe.. thank you!! XD