jabergman
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Slow Boot!!!
Have a P-133 with 32 meg and 1.2 gig HD, Compaq 151Fs Monitor, LogiTech mouse, Zoom modem and (old Tridon9680 video card). Puchased a Sidewinder 3D Pro and Creative 3D Blaster pci 4 meg video card. Installed both and they are up and running. BUT I cold booted BEFORE at just over 1 min. now I cold boot at 2 mins. and 25 sec. Would these installations cause that much more time on the boot up? I downloaded MS ie4 and it crashed, I reinstalled all from Dos 6.2 to 3.1 then win 95. Have removed Dos 6.2 and 3.1, that is what I had before the crash.Took machine in locally and on bench test with monitor, power, mouse, keyboard, cold boot was 1 min. 7 sec.(new items installed). I am at a loss on the cold boot. The cold boot starts for first 24 secs. normally, then pauses for 1 min. 20 secs., then starts aand finishes in 45 sec. Any Ideas, I have tried all I know! Thank you.
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Will try the above comments! Will contact you IF anything work. Thnak you.
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Finally called Creative Tech. Dept,my cost for 45 mins. tried all they knew, checked autoexec and config both ok. then tried all drivers, no change. He agreeded the a timeout was occuring during the boot due to conflict either defective (part of) card or wrong drivers. Tried all drivers even Cirrus drivers, became worst, pull card and reinstalled old car. Back to 1 mins cold boot and no problems. Will send back card to them to check, he supects part may be defective. Thank you for the timed out lead, that helped.
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His answer sounds like a users answer "some "queries"", sound and video cards are not printers. That called intialization proccess. And how you are suppose to check your new card if you take it out, think about that.
Sincerely,
VMPN