if you don't use the marvell sata ctrller, disable secondary sata controller from bios (will save some post time); don't think you can get rid of splash; also, disable all the things you don't use (for example, unless you have a firewire device disable it until you get to use it; disable parallel and serial ports - if you use usb printer); after disabling, i saw less checkup codes appear during the post; post still takes some time and i prefer bx2 to control my fan speeds (better fan management than speedfan or anything else)