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From: bbowen@megatest.UUCP (Bruce Bowen)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Blank Screen for 25 sec?
Message-ID: <13389@megatest.UUCP>
Date: 30 Jun 90 22:01:31 GMT
References: <292600015@trsvax> <1990Jun12.233313.3502@sj.ate.slb.com>
Reply-To: bbowen@megatest.UUCP (Bruce Bowen)
Organization: Megatest Corporation, San Jose, Ca
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In article <1990Jun12.233313.3502@sj.ate.slb.com> poffen@sj.ate.slb.com (Russ Poffenberger) writes:
>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.
>>
>
>[stuff deleted]
>
>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


   I have the same problem and I have a full 386 with 4 megs of ram, a
40 meg Seagate st251-1 hard disk and a VGA monitor.


-Bruce