Dos

[JAYDALOSS]

Whats wrong with a computer if it takes too long to go into dos when you first start it up

 

[brady]

You are going to have to be more specific than that.

 

[baronvongogo]

do you mean when your in windows and go into dos? or using an old computer just with dos? or are you booting into dos on startup?

 

[JAYDALOSS]

When the computer first starts up there is the hp logo.Well before
the dos screen comes up, you know where it shows your memory and what type of processor you have it takes about i minute or more to go to that screen

 

[m3trj]

That's the Power On Self Test (POST), not DOS.

 

[baronvongogo]

what are you system specs 1 minute does sound along time just for the screen to run tests.

 

[Jorsoft]

Is it a pretty old HP? Some of those take a while to POST, which might not be an actual problem.

 

[JAYDALOSS]

The computer is 455mhz hp. Its taken too long to post.Could it be a motherboard problem

 

[joshd]

look in the bios for some sort of option like fastboot, or something along those lines.