I have a Dell XPS 8700. I upgraded from Windows 8.1 to 10. As recommended, I also updated the bios to A11 (the latest bios). I have an i7 processor, 24gb RAM and an SSD as the boot drive - so it should be a very fast machine.
The boot time for just the bios (i.e. excluding Windows 10) is 14 seconds - crazy long. It takes longer for the bios to boot than it does for the time it takes for Windows 10 to boot. Note, the bios boot time is confirmed by opening task manager and looking at the startup tab.
My previous bios version was A03, which was still slow at booting up (about 8 seconds for the bios to boot), but better than A11. I note that some of the other bios versions subsequent to A03 were also slow to boot and I deliberately downgraded from those versions to A03 to improve boot performance.
How can this bios boot time be speeded up because it doesn't seem normal for it to take so long?
Note - I have external USB hard drives and I have tried disconnecting these and it does not impact the bios boot time.
