Slow bios startup - why?

[nehalmistry]

The main boot/bios screen that shows up (with processor speed, ram, bios version, amibios logo, blah blah blah) is kinda slow.. there is a delay in which the display is blank and then 3 to 4 secs later everything comes on.....

but on my old "asus p5a-b" mobo (ali aladdin V chipset, award bios and k6-300) it was instantaneous.... (ie I press power button and bam i see everything)

My question is... is it because of the motherboard itself, is it the chipset, or is it the bios (award/ami) ? Or why else does this happen...

NOTE: I had same hardware in my old comp as i do in my new (keyboard, ram, mouse, monitor, vid card, sound card, NIC, etc)
only motherboard and CPU changed...

Thx, Nehal

[Lucid]

Probably the bios.. I've seen big differences with different versions on an MSI board.

[Ovi]

Hi Nehalmistry
Yes, it is due to your mobo's bios- Amibios boots up much more slowly than the Award one!!
Cheers
Ovi