Palit 9800GT slow boot-up time performance

Alaa Wadi

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Hi everyone,

When I boot the computer with the external graphics card (Palit 9800GT Green Edition 1GB), the boot-up performance is slow; navigating the BIOS menus is slower than when I use the internal (built-in) graphics card (Intel GMA 950). And also when I use DOS utilities such as HDD Regenerator in boot time it performs very slow with the external card. But after the computer boots up and the OS is loaded it performs normally.
When I use the built-in graphics the computer performs faster in boot time; HDD Regenerator takes 1 hour with the built-in card but when I use the external card it takes 2.5 hours!
I used NiBiTor to change the bootup clock rates but any change I make to the bootup clocks it makes the computer unable to boot.

Computer specs:
ASRock Wolfdale1333-D667
CPU: Intel Celeron D 347 @ 3.93GHz
2x 1GB DDR2 128-bit
WD 500GB + Seagate 320GB
Palit 9800GT Green 1GB
 
First, why are you running a HD Regenerator more than once? You're just wasting time and putting extra stress on the hard drive. If you have drive issues, replace it.

Check for a BIOS update for the motherboard, may help things. You may need to check with ASRock support for this issue, it's odd that a video card will cause performance issues, although the boot up time will be a bit slower by a second with the card as it has to detect the card and it's BIOS.
 

Alaa Wadi

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Thanks for the reply.
I don't use it more than once simultaneously; I use it -at boot time- once with the built-in card (takes 1 hour), and another (after restarting the computer) with the external card (takes 2.5 hours). I run HDD Regenerator from a bootable CD and I repeated the process several times. I was having bad sectors with the WD HDD but I fixed it with HDD Regenerator. The Seagate HDD, which has no problems at all, takes 2 hours; but with the built-in card takes 45 mins.