Originally Posted by woody86

Ok, well I feel that my BIOS is lacking as I haven't much of an idea on how to set it up properly, and I was hoping someone more experienced with tweaking BIOS and this motherboard in general can help me out here. My Vista Home Premium install seems to take FOREVER to load, and is really laggy once it does boot. I'm hoping with some BIOS tweaks I can decrease my boot time, as well as take some of the lag out of Windows.

I already have the BIOS setup to only boot from the HD, so there is no delay in it trying other devices first, however, my boot times are still astronomical. When my computer first boots there is a long delay between the time the BIOS post ends, and the Windows loading screen appears. Then when the loading screen does come up, it takes 12-15 full sweeps across the little loading bar until the loading screen goes away. Then it'll have another lag before it automatically logs me in to the system. Once the computer is booted up, I still get a lot of lag in the system. Opening menus has a noticable delay, and when I right-click on the desktop there is usually about a 10 second lag while the 'busy' mouse icon appears, before the menu will pop up. Also, popup notifications make the system lag noticeably. I don't have any programs that start up with the system - that includes no Anti-virus software or 3rd party firewalls.

My system:
-MSI K9A2 Platinum V. 1 - Upgraded to newest BIOS for Phenom II support
- Phenom II X4 940 Black Edition. Only overclocked to 3.2Ghz, voltage set to 'Auto' in BIOS, Runs very stable 24/7 @ 100% usage
- 2x1GB OCZ Platinum DDR2 800mhz RAM - I hear this is rated to run between 1.8-2.2v, but when I set it to 2.0v in BIOS, it still doesn't come up as 2.0v in Everest or CPU-z
-Dual 9800GX2's - not running in SLI. Latest GeForce Drivers. Dummy plugs on DVI outputs to make them active for F@H.
- WD 500GB Cavar Blue - Windows is only thing on disc, but partition only takes up 100GB, rest is unpartitioned
-Nothing else is hooked up to the rig besides a PS/2 keyboard, a USB mouse, LAN ethernet cable, and my monitor

I'm open to any and all suggestions you guys may have! Anything I can disable in the BIOS, or any settings I should keep on... Any advice or tips are greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance!

woody

Originally Posted by raven3quill

I am having the same slow response/load times with a system:
Phenom 9600
K9A2 Platinum V1
4x1 Corsair XMS2 DDR2
Vista 32bit

I assumed it was related to the TLB patch, which I successfully disabled with the CrystalID override. Certain processes and benchmarks (such as WinRAR test) are now faster, but the system is still infuriatingly slow. If you have the Phenom II 940, this sounds like a motherboard issue.

I have no answers and am just as curious and hopeful as you are.

Originally Posted by OSDCrusher

In the BIOS, press enter or "Load Most Optimized Settings".

Originally Posted by autobahnscott

Hi,

I have an identical system. MSI K9a2 platinum with an AMD Phenom II 940. The problem must be the board, with the chip, with the OS. I have been running Vista 64-bit and the computer takes forever to boot. My slower dual-core ASUS boots in about half the time. Some specifics:

Running Vista 64 and now Windows 7 64 (both slow to boot)
Raid on promise controller
4 GB Ram at 1067 Mhz (full speed)
NVIDIA 8800 GS video card.
Latest version 1.8 bios for this board (MS-7376 ver 1)

Something is just not right.

Very slooooow to boot