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Palit 9800GT slow boot-up time performance

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April 18, 2014 8:20:29 PM

Hi everyone,

This is my first thread in tomsHardware and I hope we will help each other by sharing information and experiences..

I have a little problem I hope you have a solution to it..
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! Also the double beep boot-successful sound is faster with the built-in card.
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 (only when I change the bootup clocks); if I change anything else other than the bootup clocks it boots normally. The bootup clocks for the automatically selected timing set is -905843 MHz (negative). I tried selecting the other clocks and timing sets but they didn't work.

My computer specs:
Mobo: ASRock Wolfdale1333-D667
CPU: Intel Celeron D 347 @ 3.93GHz
RAM: 2x 1GB DDR2 128-bit
HDD: WD 500GB + Seagate 320GB
Graphics: Palit 9800GT Green 1GB

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April 23, 2014 8:55:48 AM

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.
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April 24, 2014 4:33:30 PM

hang-the-9 said:
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.


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.
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a b K Overclocking
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April 25, 2014 6:28:15 AM

By more than once I mean more than once EVER not once a day. Don't run it unless you have issues. And even if you have issues, you are a LOT safer to just replace the drive.
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June 9, 2014 5:16:43 PM

I think the problem is with the graphics card boot-up clocks being too low.
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