Dave 2001-02-05 07:00
Anyone have any idea how to reduce or eliminate the delay during boot up while the second monitor is being initalized. It adds almost a minute to my systems startup and as far as I can see nothing is going on. What causes this delay anyway? Thanks
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Noah 2001-03-18 08:49
I noticeced that on my system but I did not see anybody else complain about it. I think it my be related to mapping the memory for the secondary display.
Dell Dimension 4100
OS's : Win ME fully patched
P3 1Ghz/512 MB PC133/Intel 815E chipset
Phoenix BIOS A05
IBM Deskstar ATA100 45 Gb hard drive
SBLive Value! X-Gamer 5.1
Creative Labs/CSW DeskTop Theater 5.1 DTT3500 Digital
32MB DDR Nvidia GeForce 2 GTS AGP 4X (Primary Video Display)
Creative Labs 3D RIVA TNT2 M64 32MB PCI (SecondaryVideo Display)
2 x 19" Samsung SyncMaster 950p monitors
OE & IE 5.5 SP1
DirectX 8.0
PowerDVD 3.0
Noah
Noah
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Norman Brooks 2001-04-05 10:53
I haven't noticed any noticable delay loading the second monitor.
I was using a Creative Labs rivaTNT AGP and a 3d Blaster Banshee, now I'm using the ATI Radeon VE dual head. They all take about the same time (about 1 minute total).
Most (about 50 seconds worth) is the hardware initializing .. BIOS, Scsi Bios and Registry .. with a 1 Gig Coppermine the final OS load goes very quickly. Usually, when something is taking a long time to load it is waiting for something it can't find. Try doing a load with logging on and go over the bootlog carefully to see if it is taking a long time looking for some particular file.
nbrooks@accesscable.net
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Christian Studer 2001-04-05 11:11
Win2000 doesn't have the delay, only Win9x. Don't know why though, but looks like Win9x loads/initializes the BIOS of the secondary card, whereas Win2000 doesn't (this would explain why only Win9x shows the video BIOS screen on secondary monitors).
Christian Studer
www.realtimesoft.com
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me 2 2001-04-19 19:27
I was looking at my bootlog (P3 1ghz, 512 MB ram, vid card 1 = elsa gladiac ultra (geforce 2 ultra) card 2 some generic s3trio64v2 card) and enumerating the 2nd card takes 50 seconds, which is way more than everything else combined! this sux! is there a work around? please email me cause i do'nt check here often
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