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From: poffen@sj.ate.slb.com (Russ Poffenberger)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Blank Screen for 25 sec?
Message-ID: <1990Jun12.233313.3502@sj.ate.slb.com>
Date: 12 Jun 90 23:33:13 GMT
References: <292600015@trsvax>
Reply-To: poffen@sj.ate.slb.com (Russ Poffenberger)
Organization: Schlumberger Technologies, San Jose, CA.
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In article <292600015@trsvax> reyn@trsvax.UUCP writes:
>
>I have a CompuAdd 316sx with 2 meg of ram and the CompuAdd "16 bit" VGA
>card.  Whenever I try to run in the 386 enhanced mode, I get the standard
>Windows startup screen, and then the screen blanks for 25 seconds before
>windows starts up.  The effect was so disorienting that I had assumed my
>machine had locked up and had reset it several times before I was
>distracted long enough for it to complete its business.  Once windows
>finally comes up, everything looks fine and seems to run O.K.
>

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There is a noticeable delay between the startup window, and getting the
desktop. Certainly the speed of your hard disk plays a role here. It used to
take 5 to 10 seconds for me with my old MFM controller. When I changed the
interleave from 3:1 to 2:1, it improved, then when I went SCSI, it went down
to a couple of seconds. This is on a 25Mhz 386 with a V7 VGA.

I would imagine this may be a normal delay given the slower CPU, and you
probably have an el-cheapo disk controller. You might try getting a hard
disk performance utility like hdtest (compuserve). This can be used to
tell you your current interleave, then to find out which interleave is
optimal. It can even re-format the new interleave onto the disk without
destroying data (it works, I know). I suggest you backup anyway, just in
case.


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