Obviously you did something that worked for you Talonman.Originally Posted by Talonman
I'm not sure I can promise that WFO...
Just in case any of you water heads never make it into the 'Intel' section of the board much, I just picked up on a Maximus tip I must post in here too just once.
If when your desktop comes up, and your red X stayes lit up in the bottom right hand side of your screen, indicating your internet connection isn't made for 90 seconds, you need a sound card driver update. When I was OC'ing, at every boot-up, after the desktop would appear, no programs would launch, nor internet connection would be made for 90 long seconds.
Turns out the soundcard driver that is on the CD, that comes with the Maximus needs updated.
I had to install the updated driver, and using Device Manager remove the sound card too. The next boot Vista found the sound card, and installed the new updated driver. The third re-boot delay is gone.
That 90sec wait on every re-boot was driving me nutts especially when BIOS tweaking. Just watching the X, and riding the timer out get's old fast!! Man!!
We are all Maximus guys in here, so the idea that the Driver on the supplied CD is the direct cause of this delay, can't be kept a secret.I'm not trying to start any arguments. In the same thread, someone mentioned, it isn't a Realtek sound card. The drivers supplied by Asus are "Soundmax." At least on my board. The High definition audio device in Device Manager has a Microsoft driver. The SoundMax is listed as an analog device. Does device manager show a realtek device or driver on your rig? I suspect you uninstalled the SoundMax driver and Vista replaced it with MS.
I too had the 90 second plus delay. I followed this suggestion...
It worked for me. Now... 10 seconds after hitting enter from the password screen, I have a fully functional desktop. If it's true Vista boots from 1 core by default, 1 core could not handle the read from my 4 drive raid 0 array.^this is why im still on xp. imma wait it out till windows 7
stupid to ask but you guys did do the msconfig tweak to utilize all cores while loading right? i know that vista and xp both are set by default to load off 1 core.
msconfig
boot.ini
advanced options
check /numproc and set it to highest available number. 4 for quads 2 for duals *duh*
if you already know, then just ignore... just gotta throw that one out there.The tweak didn't speed booting from my 2 drive raid 0 Vista rig or single hd XP rigs. ( All Quads) It may be a real driver issue in which case standard Vista drivers should be considered. Let us know if you see Realtek mentioned anywhere in device manager for your audio device.
I'm curious to know if they actually installed.
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