After recently putting a system together, it takes approximately 1 minute to run the POST. The system comprises of: P-599 ATX Motherboard with 8meg Video, and Sound onboard. 350Mhz AMD K6-2 128 Meg DIMM 5 Gig WD HD AMI BIOS Running Windows 98.. I've checked and re-checked the BIOS settings, changed a few things, still to no avail. Win 98 is definitely not the problem, it runs smoothly. If anyone has an idea as to the cause of this slow boot-up, please drop me a line. I do have another computer with an AMD 100Mhz, 1.2 Gig HD, AT board, regular video and modem... The bootup is approx 10 seconds (POST) I would think that the faster CPU means a faster bootup. Thanks in advance for your help. Charly Coles. PCBUILD only works if you contribute. Send your messages to be posted to: [log in to unmask]