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What the hell kind of hardware are you running, son? Is your system waiting for the superconducting magnets of your particle accelerator to cool? Is your 400 lbs Honeywell tape drive running self-assessment tests? Is the communications array realigning to restore the connection to your hidden villainous moon base? What is taking fourteen seconds?
That'd at least make sense, this is a (literal) black box. Seriously, my monitor takes long enough to wake that it's at the boot loader screen by the time it's ready.
I found a post on Reddit claiming it's a RAM thing, and I should enable XMP to avoid it. But I've already got XMP enabled so I need to poke around it again.
And also disable the 5 second delay in the bootloader, not like I'm ever using that fallback option.
The usual suspect in this scenario is crappy USB devices, hubs in particular. Unplugging all USB devices and rebooting to check the difference is always a solid and easy first diagnostic step. If that turns out to be the issue you can add them back piecemeal to isolate the offender(s).