Annoying screen on pre-POST

Mons1990 · 2014-01-05 20:32:47

Hi all, i used the search function and Google but I don't found a query that explains my question.
Some years ago I bought a new video card for my computer, a Point Of View Graphics equipped with an NVIDIA GeForce 9600GT GPU. As I installed it my computer shows for a second or two a pre-POST black screen with the card specifications (brand, model, RAM, etc.), and I've always found this very annoying, but I didn't care cause 2/3 seconds in a global boot time of 45 seconds were not so important. Now I bought a new computer but i kept the video card, i have an SSD and the overall boot time is about 15s, so 2s become significant. Nothing of tragic, but man lives to walk up to perfection so... How can I remove it? Thank you!

GE · 2014-01-05 20:35:07

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NV … on_startup

Could that be it?

Last edited by GE (2014-01-05 20:37:59)

Mons1990 · 2014-01-05 20:40:39

GE wrote:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NV … on_startup
Is it this or something else?

I don't know but I don't think so, cause it's on pre-post, when the computer has not started nor the BIOS. I'm going to make a video.

GE · 2014-01-05 20:47:33

Isn't POST the first thing that gets fired up after all of the necessary (at that stage) devices have been turned on (power)? The only reference Google has on pre-POST is this thread.

Scimmia · 2014-01-05 20:54:49

The video card has to boot up, too, whether you see it or not. If there is a way to turn it off, you'd probably save nothing in time and have to modify the card's BIOS to do it.

Mons1990 · 2014-01-05 21:58:31

Scimmia wrote:

The video card has to boot up, too, whether you see it or not. If there is a way to turn it off, you'd probably save nothing in time and have to modify the card's BIOS to do it.

I haven't thinked about this, so I'll keep the splash. TY all.

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Annoying screen on pre-POST

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