Samsung Chronos Series 7 Startup Issue

[techbeck]

So I have an old Samsung Chronos Series 7 laptop I bought about 8yrs or so ago.  Put in a SSD drive and thing runs pretty darn well with Win10 Home.  Problem is, takes a few to start up.  I have to push the power button a few times before it actually loads the Samsung splash screen and then Windows.   After everything loads, laptop works great without issue until I restart again.  Then the power LED shows solid blue and the KB lights up.  Takes a few times to power off/restart for things to load correctly again.

 

I tried the normal memory reset/replace and all.  HD does not seem to matter either nor any BIOS updates.  Since it happens when the system is powered down before Windows starts, I am leaning more to a hardware/motherboard issue.  And if that is the case, not worth fixing and may as well switch to salvaging what I can and trash the rest. But open to other ideas......

 

System has an embedded  RAM chip as well as a 8GB express cache SSD drive.   Both seem to be working well.  HD is set to use EUFI and a GPT partition.   All drivers/BIOS are updated to the latest I can get for the device.

[Mindovermaster Moderator]

Might be a start up error. Like something its looking for and cant find, then it gives up and continues.

 

Did you try a Memtest on that RAM?

 

Look in BIOS for boot options. Make sure only the SSD is in there. Not network boot or something.

 

From top of my head at 12AM...

[techbeck]

36 minutes ago, Mindovermaster said:

Might be a start up error. Like something its looking for and cant find, then it gives up and continues.

 

Did you try a Memtest on that RAM?

 

Look in BIOS for boot options. Make sure only the SSD is in there. Not network boot or something.

 

From top of my head at 12AM...

Will check some more tomorrow.  Same time here in N IL so not doing much more tonight.  Thanks for the reply.