MSI Mag B650 Tomahawk WiFi slow boot-SOLVED

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Today I solved the slow booting of windows 11 on the motherboard MSI Mag B650 Tomahawk Wi Fi.
My rig: Motherboard: MSI Mag B650 Tomahawk Wi Fi
Processor: AMD ryzen 7 7800x 3D
DDR 5: G. Skill Flare X5 6000 Cl32-38-38-96 1.35V
GPU: Sapphire nitro+ amd radeon rx 7800 xt gaming oc
Downloaded and installed the latest version of the bios from the MSI site (version 7D75v1A). When I bought the motherboard, version of BIOS 7D75v17 was installed on it.
It's a relatively new version of the bios, but I still installed the latest version of a few days ago. Set Up AMD Expo 1, DDR RAM go on 6000 MHz (without that go on 4800 MHz native).
On BIOS (overclock settings) I put Memory Context restore from auto to enable. Everything else is original bios settings.
Before that, boot to windows 11 lock screen it take 1 minute and 20 sec, with these settings 20 sec. (5 times faster).
At the end, everything works perfectly, no crashes, no blue screen. I tested more than 5 times booting, working on PC, gaming, even stress test CPU and everything went without a problem.
Best regards.
 
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zoran.jakobac014f202d1 said:
Today I solved the slow booting of windows 11 on the motherboard MSI Mag B650 Tomahawk Wi Fi.
My rig: Motherboard: MSI Mag B650 Tomahawk Wi Fi
Processor: AMD ryzen 7 7800x 3D
DDR 5: G. Skill Flare X5 6000 Cl32-38-38-96 1.35V
GPU: Sapphire nitro+ amd radeon rx 7800 xt gaming oc
Downloaded and installed the latest version of the bios from the MSI site (version 7D75v1A). When I bought the motherboard, version of BIOS 7D75v17 was installed on it.
It's a relatively new version of the bios, but I still installed the latest version of a few days ago. Set Up AMD Expo 1, DDR RAM go on 6000 MHz (without that go on 4800 MHz native).
On BIOS (overclock settings) I put Memory Context restore from auto to enable. Everything else is original bios settings.
Before that, boot to windows 11 lock screen it take 1 minute and 20 sec, with these settings 20 sec. (5 times faster).
At the end, everything works perfectly, no crashes, no blue screen. I tested more than 5 times booting, working on PC, gaming, even stress test CPU and everything went without a problem.
Best regards.
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My task manager shows a loading time of 18.7 seconds, BIOS version is 7D75v16. So 20 seconds is still quite a long time
My configuration: MB MSI B650 Tomahawk + CPU Ryzen 5 7600x + RAM G.Skill Trident Z5 Neo DDR5-6000 CL32 32GB (2x16GB) AMD EXPO + NVME Kingstone KC3000+ GPU Gigabyte RTX4070Ti Eagle OC + PSU MSI A850G PCIE5
 
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I had the same problem and solved it.
I have a MSI Tomahawk B650 Wifi and Gskill Trident Z5 Neo DDR5 6000.
The BIOS was running the RAM only with 4200 MHz.
When I changed to 6000 MHz the boot time was extremely long. The motherboard did multiple boot cycles to finally boot, which took around 2min.
I have changed 3 things:
- updated to newest BIOS on MSI website
- in BIOS activated EXPO Profile
- Put Memory Context Restore to "enabled"

Problem solved :)
 
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j.sikla153002d7 said:
I had the same problem and solved it.
I have a MSI Tomahawk B650 Wifi and Gskill Trident Z5 Neo DDR5 6000.
The BIOS was running the RAM only with 4200 MHz.
When I changed to 6000 MHz the boot time was extremely long. The motherboard did multiple boot cycles to finally boot, which took around 2min.
I have changed 3 things:
- updated to newest BIOS on MSI website
- in BIOS activated EXPO Profile
- Put Memory Context Restore to "enabled"

Problem solved :)
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You tried enable power down already yet?
 
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I have a newly built unit with MSI Mag B650 Tomahawk WiFi and it doesn't boot when an external GPU is installed. No issue whatsoever when booting with the integrated GPU. The system is trying to boot with the LED DRAM in the motherboard flashing but it will not boot successfully. My external GPU is working properly because this has been used with my previous build. Sometimes the unit boots with the external GPU but most of the time it doesn't, especially from a cold start.

CPU: Ryzen 5 7600x
Mobo: MSI Mag B650 Tomahawk WiFi
Ram: OCPC Pista 32 GB DDR5 6200
GPU: MSI RTX 3070TI Suprim X
PSU: Cougar 850W 80 Plus Gold Modular
HD: Kingston 4.0 NVMe M.2
BIOS: 7D75v1C2(Beta version)
 
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charlzfk150a02ce said:
I have a newly built unit with MSI Mag B650 Tomahawk WiFi and it doesn't boot when an external GPU is installed. No issue whatsoever when booting with the integrated GPU. The system is trying to boot with the LED DRAM in the motherboard flashing but it will not boot successfully. My external GPU is working properly because this has been used with my previous build. Sometimes the unit boots with the external GPU but most of the time it doesn't, especially from a cold start.

CPU: Ryzen 5 7600x
Mobo: MSI Mag B650 Tomahawk WiFi
Ram: OCPC Pista 32 GB DDR5 6200
GPU: MSI RTX 3070TI Suprim X
PSU: Cougar 850W 80 Plus Gold Modular
HD: Kingston 4.0 NVMe M.2
BIOS: 7D75v1C2(Beta version)
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Exactly the same problem arose. But before that I successfully assembled the system on 01.25.2024 and launched it. It worked well until 18/02/2024. Then I decided to clean the video card from dust and disassembled the computer. I removed the video card, cleaned it and put it back in. After assembly, the system no longer starts, the LED DRAM LED is blinking. I removed the video card and started the system without it, the error repeats. I reset the BIOS settings with a jumper to factory settings, started the system without a video card, the system booted into Windows 11 without errors. I inserted an XFX Merc 6900XT video card, the system does not boot, the LED DRAM LED is blinking. I removed the XFX Merc 6900XT video card and installed an MSI Geforce 1070 video card instead, the system booted into Windows 11 without errors. I removed the MSI Geforce 1070 and put it back in the XFX Merc 6900XT, the system booted into Windows 11. I set the previous Bios settings from the saved profile, the system has been working normally and stably for the past 24 hours.
Perhaps I think so on the motherboard in the PCI-E connector there was a misalignment due to tightly tightened bolts screwing the video card to the case, when I changed video cards I did not screw them to the case, and then when the system started working again with the XFX Merc 6900XT I did not tighten it tighten the bolts securing it to the body.

CPU: Ryzen 7 7800 x3d
Mobo: MSI Mag B650 Tomahawk WiFi
Ram: G.SKILL Flare X5 Series AMD EXPO DDR5 6000
GPU: XFX Merc 6900XT
PSU: Seasonic FOCUS GX-850 850W 80 Plus Gold Modular
HD: in Port 01 Nextorage Japan 2TB NVMe M.2 2280 PCIe Gen.4, Port 02 Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus 1TB
BIOS: 7D75v1E5(Beta version)
Case: Bequiet PURE BASE 500DX
 
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zoran.014f202d1 said:
Today I solved the slow booting of windows 11 on the motherboard MSI Mag B650 Tomahawk Wi Fi.
My rig: Motherboard: MSI Mag B650 Tomahawk Wi Fi
Processor: AMD ryzen 7 7800x 3D
DDR 5: G. Skill Flare X5 6000 Cl32-38-38-96 1.35V
GPU: Sapphire nitro+ amd radeon rx 7800 xt gaming oc
Downloaded and installed the latest version of the bios from the MSI site (version 7D75v1A). When I bought the motherboard, version of BIOS 7D75v17 was installed on it.
It's a relatively new version of the bios, but I still installed the latest version of a few days ago. Set Up AMD Expo 1, DDR RAM go on 6000 MHz (without that go on 4800 MHz native).
On BIOS (overclock settings) I put Memory Context restore from auto to enable. Everything else is original bios settings.
Before that, boot to windows 11 lock screen it take 1 minute and 20 sec, with these settings 20 sec. (5 times faster).
At the end, everything works perfectly, no crashes, no blue screen. I tested more than 5 times booting, working on PC, gaming, even stress test CPU and everything went without a problem.
Best regards.
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I cannot thank you enough!! I was literally getting 5+ MINUTE boot times before. Saw your comment and all the positive responses and it convinced me to give it a go (I had seen the same solution but lots of negative responses elsewhere). Booting up now from a shutdown comes in at 32 SECONDS!!! Yeah its still not perfect, but the difference is night and day to me! So thanks again you and everyone who commented.
 
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MSI Mag B650 Tomahawk WiFi
AMD ryzen 9 7900x
DDR5 32g Corsair Vengeance 6000
Zotac 4080 super

So I came here wondering why my boot up was so slow considering how damn expensive this rig was. After seeing about that memory context I decided to do a little digging around.
Came across this video:
Had a bootup of like... maybe 3 seconds?? 4 max? Hope this helps.​

 
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gammafilte155202db said:
Yup that was the issue. It was set to auto and when I flipped context restore to enable, the boot time went from 2 min to ~20 sec.
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For me too!

- MSI Mag B60 Tomahawk wifi (MS-7D75)
- MSI Click Bios 5 (E7D75AMS-1D0)
- processor AMD Ryzen 9 7900
- Pack of 2 x 16 Go (32 Go) memory sticks Corsair Vengeance - DDR5 5200 MHz

So in summary, I bought a custom PC last month, not thinking for a single moment that I would have problems booting the PC because this motherboard.
I made other modifications that I don't remember tonight. I managed to get down to 13.1 seconds for the bios boot but I would like to get below 10 seconds.
But after reading several experiences with this motherboard, I think I can consider myself lucky to have gone so low. I can provide details if anyone is interested.
 
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stalker24159b02eb said:
BIOS version 1.E, boot time, according to task manager, 8.8 sec.
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:oops::oops::oops::rolleyes:
Strange for me because I had now the last version (beta): 1K1 and I have no significant changes for the boot, this must be due to the AM5 platform as a materiel.net advisor told me yesterday. In the settings I didn't notice anything new to boost startup in the latest bios version but I'm not a computer expert, maybe I missed something.
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@stalker24159b02eb , what platform have you ? For boost, did you change 1 or 2 settings with this version (1.E) ?
 
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OK I didn't notice your signature, you have a processor AMD Ryzen 5 7500F so your plateform is like me (AM5). Your bios version is slightly older than mine, so I can't explain it.
 
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