Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!sunee!gpsteffl
From: gpsteffl@sunee.waterloo.edu (Glenn Patrick Steffler)
Subject: Re: Blank Screen for 25 sec?
Message-ID: <1990Jun13.005153.12327@sunee.waterloo.edu>
Organization: Gerbels On Speed Inc.
References: <292600015@trsvax>
Date: Wed, 13 Jun 90 00:51:53 GMT
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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

When I was using a 386sx with win3, the bootup time was considerably
over twenty seconds.  But streamlining a few things on your box may
help:

1)  Create a permanent swap file.  If your hard disk is low on
    megage and/or fragmented the creation of a swap file of 6MB
    or more would take a long time.

2)  Increase the size of the smartdrive disk cache if possible.
    Win3 loads and parses the .ini files quite a number of times
    before the screen starts to fill with the main apps.  If the
    main files (USER,GDI,KERNEL...) take too much cache space, the
    .ini file will have to be re-read.

If these don't help, I suggest more memory! 1/2 :-)

>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.
>
>					John Reynolds

If you think regular Win2 boots slow...holy mother pearl son you gotta
see the blazing turtle neck speed when running in debug!


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