Hi All! This is my first post here. I recently purchased a Z230 Workstation Tower (i5-4690 20 GB Ram) and just recently installed Win 7 Prox64.
I noticed the POST bootup looks kind of erratic (showing the HP logo twice and the screen flashes on and off a few times) however there are no errors. It's been this way from the beginning even when I went to boot from DVD to install windows on a an HDD from another system. (I purchased the Z230 w/o a HDD) I'm used to my older Lenovo system which shows the Lenovo logo for a few seconds and that's it... very clean.
Is this normal? Even with very bare-bones system services running and a freshly installed installation, it takes about a minute from the time I hit the power button to the start of the wndows chime (I disabled the Windows login). At the 20 second mark, I see the first HP logo (for like 2 seconds), then the monitor flashes a couple of times, and 5 seconds later, I see the second HP logo ( for an instant). Then the screen stays dark and says "Windows Starting" and it takes another 30 seconds from there to the windows chime.
I've tried changing/disabling things in the Bios and there is absoulely no change. I tried updating the bios to 1.61 but same thing. I even tried defaulting the Bios. I even disabled the PXE NIC Option just so I don't have to see the "Initializing Intel Boot Agent 1.4.03" and "Attempting boot from hard drive" messages flashing on the screen.
Three questions please:
Is this normal?
If I replace the primary HDD with an SSD, will I still this POST behavior?
I set the bios to Uefi and resintal Win 7 x64 to a GPT on an SSD will I still get this type of POST behavior?
Thank you so much.