NV9600gso slow at startup

[pointertovoid]

Hello everybody!

Got an nVidia 9600gso in my new config. More than enough for my needs: the fan stays at idle in Ski Challenge 2009.

Trouble: when I start the computer, the 9600gso takes more than 5s (more than five thousand milliseconds!) before giving control back to the mobo's Bios, and I dislike this delay. So:

- Is there something I can do (Suppress Ram testing?) maybe in the Coolbits to speed it up?

- Are all nVidia dX10 cards that slow at startup, or do you have quicker ones?

I'd like to stick at nVidia as they offer W2k drivers for their dX10 cards.

Thanks!

[Zenskas]

Hmm my 9600GT does not slow the BIOS down at all but I have seen another 9600GT take a few seconds off boot time by displaying the video card memory amount before the BIOS logo showed up. Is 5 seconds really that bad you would buy a new card?

[pointertovoid]

Thanks Zenskas!

Well, I'm fed up with waiting for computers to start. And once again, progress in hardware is offset by ever worse written software, slower peripherals detection, etc. My Tualatin 1500MHz boots as fast as the C2D does despite the *6 to *20 harware speed improvement, I don't want to accept that.

Could you tell me the brand and model of your 9600gt that boots quickly, and possibly of the slower one you've seen?

Thanks!

[Zenskas]

Thanks Zenskas!

Well, I'm fed up with waiting for computers to start. And once again, progress in hardware is offset by ever worse written software, slower peripherals detection, etc. My Tualatin 1500MHz boots as fast as the C2D does despite the *6 to *20 harware speed improvement, I don't want to accept that.

Could you tell me the brand and model of your 9600gt that boots quickly, and possibly of the slower one you've seen?

Thanks!

Yeah I my P3 beast I sometimes talk about boots XP in less time than the PC in my sig thanks to small hardware drivers and a fast POST.

Sure my 9600GT is an MSI N9600GT-T2D512. The other one which takes a few seconds extra at bootup is a Palit GeForce 9600GT (512MB).

Hope this helps

[pointertovoid]

Thanks again! Noted down at a well-chosen place.

I wonder why some graphics cards take extra time. After all, the only difference between various integrator brands is the cooler, size and type of Ram, Vga/Dvi outputs... And the logo displayed at bootup. Could it possibly be that Xfx introduced a no-operation delay so that its logo appears during bootup?

[Zenskas]

Thanks again! Noted down at a well-chosen place.

I wonder why some graphics cards take extra time. After all, the only difference between various integrator brands is the cooler, size and type of Ram, Vga/Dvi outputs... And the logo displayed at bootup. Could it possibly be that Xfx introduced a no-operation delay so that its logo appears during bootup?

I'm not sure but remember even my GPU could take a few seconds its just that I never see a message on the screen as my monitor takes a few seconds to get a signal as it auto switches between analog and digital a few times when I turn it on.

[pointertovoid]

The solution that works now was to replace the XFX 9600gso by a Gigabyte 8600gt.

It takes 3-4s before the Bios gets the screen, instead of >10s. After the Bios, Win also starts faster.

The 8600gt has less GFlops than the 9600gso, but nearly as many GB/s (in this 256MB Gddr3 version), and benchmarks don't show a factor-of-three, they show some 30% less performance instead. Which is still more than enough for my uses.

Better: power drain has dropped a lot. My 8600gt is passively cooled, which solved as well the startup noise that annoyed me with the 9600gso. And the whole room is cooler - a significant difference in Summer.