Ti200 BIOS flash fixed Win2k boot delay
In case anyone else encounters a several-minute hang while booting,
here's the solution I found-- My family's computer, a P3 1.2GHz with a 64MB MSI GF3 Ti200, developed an irritating problem where it would hang during bootup for minutes at a time (2-5 in my experience, but they say it was sometimes as long as 15). After scanning for viruses and removing dozens of items from startup, I couldn't fix it. Then I tried updating the video driver. After removing 41.09, it booted right back up. But after installing 53.03, the delay came back. A 4MB PCI Virge card I had lying around didn't have the problem, even with the appropriate video drivers isntalled. So I tried flashing the card's BIOS, with the 3.20.00.19 BIOS he (There are newer ones, but they didn't match the TV encoder chip type.) http://whitebunny.demon.nl/hardware/chipset_nvidia.html And, what do you know, it worked! After reinstalling the drivers (since Windows thought the card had changed), the boot delay went away. (FWIW: I had to use the -6 option in NVFLASH to override the PCI subsystem ID, since the reference BIOS uses 0 for generic...) |
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