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My PC (Core 2 duo 8400 @ 3.6 Ghz, 4 GB Corsair DDR2, Intel SSD, XP Pro)
normally boots in 12 sec (from POST to Windows welcome screen). After mounting a Matrox RT-X100 video card, the boot time has increased to 45 sec. That means 33 seconds just for identifying a single card ! Once booted, the PC runs perfectly. No applications or programs and only 22 services are running (including Avast AV). Can someone explain the reason for this long boot time, and perhaps also how to reduce it ? |
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ElJerid wrote:
My PC (Core 2 duo 8400 @ 3.6 Ghz, 4 GB Corsair DDR2, Intel SSD, XP Pro) normally boots in 12 sec (from POST to Windows welcome screen). After mounting a Matrox RT-X100 video card, the boot time has increased to 45 sec. That means 33 seconds just for identifying a single card ! Once booted, the PC runs perfectly. No applications or programs and only 22 services are running (including Avast AV). Can someone explain the reason for this long boot time, and perhaps also how to reduce it ? Have you checked the Device Manager to see if the correct driver is installed for your card? That might be the reason. You might also see what else is loading in startup for MSCONFIG. |
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"Ken" wrote in message ... ElJerid wrote: My PC (Core 2 duo 8400 @ 3.6 Ghz, 4 GB Corsair DDR2, Intel SSD, XP Pro) normally boots in 12 sec (from POST to Windows welcome screen). After mounting a Matrox RT-X100 video card, the boot time has increased to 45 sec. That means 33 seconds just for identifying a single card ! Once booted, the PC runs perfectly. No applications or programs and only 22 services are running (including Avast AV). Can someone explain the reason for this long boot time, and perhaps also how to reduce it ? Have you checked the Device Manager to see if the correct driver is installed for your card? That might be the reason. You might also see what else is loading in startup for MSCONFIG. As mentioned by the previous poster it's possible that the new graphics card is not only loading its driver but other graphics supporting programs as well, which are causing the extended boot time. What you could note are the programs that are now loading at boot when you check on msconfig, and then do a system restore before you loaded the drivers for the new card. Before you do that though you might want to create a restore point so you can return to your current configuration without software error messages. -- Jan Alter |
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"Jan Alter" wrote in message ... "Ken" wrote in message ... ElJerid wrote: My PC (Core 2 duo 8400 @ 3.6 Ghz, 4 GB Corsair DDR2, Intel SSD, XP Pro) normally boots in 12 sec (from POST to Windows welcome screen). After mounting a Matrox RT-X100 video card, the boot time has increased to 45 sec. That means 33 seconds just for identifying a single card ! Once booted, the PC runs perfectly. No applications or programs and only 22 services are running (including Avast AV). Can someone explain the reason for this long boot time, and perhaps also how to reduce it ? Have you checked the Device Manager to see if the correct driver is installed for your card? That might be the reason. You might also see what else is loading in startup for MSCONFIG. As mentioned by the previous poster it's possible that the new graphics card is not only loading its driver but other graphics supporting programs as well, which are causing the extended boot time. What you could note are the programs that are now loading at boot when you check on msconfig, and then do a system restore before you loaded the drivers for the new card. Before you do that though you might want to create a restore point so you can return to your current configuration without software error messages. -- Jan Alter Thanks for your answers. No changes in Msconfig after installing the Matrox card. Only Avast antivirus as startup item. In device manager, no errors. But of course, there is one more device marked as "unknown", and containing 5 Matrox drivers. All of them are "working properly" and the Matrox RT-X100 card works normally. |
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"ElJerid" wrote in message news My PC (Core 2 duo 8400 @ 3.6 Ghz, 4 GB Corsair DDR2, Intel SSD, XP Pro) normally boots in 12 sec (from POST to Windows welcome screen). After mounting a Matrox RT-X100 video card, the boot time has increased to 45 sec. That means 33 seconds just for identifying a single card ! Once booted, the PC runs perfectly. No applications or programs and only 22 services are running (including Avast AV). Can someone explain the reason for this long boot time, and perhaps also how to reduce it ? 12 seconds to boot is abnormally fast, 45 seconds is about right. Stop worrying Andy |
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"ElJerid" wrote in message
... snip No changes in Msconfig after installing the Matrox card. Only Avast antivirus as startup item. In device manager, no errors. But of course, there is one more device marked as "unknown", and containing 5 Matrox drivers. All of them are "working properly" and the Matrox RT-X100 card works normally. An "unknown" device is almost as bad as one which is showing errors - in both cases Windows knows of the device and it isn't working correctly. In the case of "unknown" Windows is simply saying that it doesn't know what it is, no device driver is loaded for it and hence it isn't working. Under "Display adapters" (in Device Manager) do you have your new RT-X100 card listed? If not then I think it isn't being used - or is being used as a "generic VGA card", so not to its best advantage. Sometimes by deleting the unkown device and then Action - Scan for hardware changes, you can get Windows to search afresh for the correct device driver and sometimes this helps. Otherwise, I suspect that your card came with some device drivers and that the correct ones aren't loaded - it might also be worth going to the Matrox website to get the latest drivers for the card. If it isn't using the right drivers then that might account at least in part for your slower bootup as (i.) it is treating it as a generic vga card and (ii.) windows might be searching (and failing) to find the right driver. Hope you get it sorted. -- Brian Cryer http://www.cryer.co.uk/brian |
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Brian Cryer wrote:
"ElJerid" wrote in message ... snip No changes in Msconfig after installing the Matrox card. Only Avast antivirus as startup item. In device manager, no errors. But of course, there is one more device marked as "unknown", and containing 5 Matrox drivers. All of them are "working properly" and the Matrox RT-X100 card works normally. An "unknown" device is almost as bad as one which is showing errors - in both cases Windows knows of the device and it isn't working correctly. In the case of "unknown" Windows is simply saying that it doesn't know what it is, no device driver is loaded for it and hence it isn't working. Under "Display adapters" (in Device Manager) do you have your new RT-X100 card listed? If not then I think it isn't being used - or is being used as a "generic VGA card", so not to its best advantage. Sometimes by deleting the unkown device and then Action - Scan for hardware changes, you can get Windows to search afresh for the correct device driver and sometimes this helps. Otherwise, I suspect that your card came with some device drivers and that the correct ones aren't loaded - it might also be worth going to the Matrox website to get the latest drivers for the card. If it isn't using the right drivers then that might account at least in part for your slower bootup as (i.) it is treating it as a generic vga card and (ii.) windows might be searching (and failing) to find the right driver. Hope you get it sorted. His card is used for video editing. It may be a combination capture card and MPEG compressor for example. http://images.digitalmedianet.com/20...rtx100card.jpg There is a HINT chip on board, which is a PCI bridge chip. The card is PCI (universal keyed). The HINT chip, means there are multiple PCI chips on the other side of the bridge. The "unknown" device could be one of those PCI chips inside the card. For example, if there was a Firewire chip for camcorder hookup, that could be sitting on the other side of the bridge. I couldn't find any technical articles, describing what all the chips were. The available pictures don't show enough chip numbers. Only the word "HINT" on top of one of the chips, tells me it is a bridged PCI to PCI design. And that means, multiple PCI chips are located on the other side of the bridge. They don't use or need a bridge chip, if there is only one PCI chip on the card. A bridge chip is used, if there are multiple chips that need to be connected to the bus. Paul |
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