Lenovo S10-2: Textmode/BIOS slow down by 15x after Win 7

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titushoon
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The post was posted to Lenovo Forum @ htp://preview.tinyurl.com/yjyyys7 but i believe it is more BIOS related and hence cross-posting to here.

I do apologize if this is not allowed.

...and any suggestion/help is greatly appreciated ;-)

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Hi there,

My company received a S10-2 (WinXP Home OEM) as a gift after purchasing an IBM x3650 server.

As my company is moving towards Win 7, the following was performed in sequence:
1) Deletion of all partition (including the quick boot, recovery and WinXP partition)
2) Clean installation of Win 7 Pro
3) Office Pro 2k3, NetOp Guest
4) Win 7 Patches from my company's WSUS server
5) Replaced 1GB Ram to 2GB (DDR2 3500 667Mhz, 1.8v)
6) latest S10-2 bios (rev 22)
7) Win 7 driver: NIC and Intel GMA950

Textmode boot-up slowed down considerably after step 3) - even the underscore ("_") blinks 10-20 times slower. Generally it takes 15 minutes to boot into GUI of Win 7.

Despite the slow boot-up, speed/performance of S10-2 is acceptable once booted into GUI of Win 7. Windows Experience Index of HDD, RAM and CPU averages at 3~4 with Graphics lowest at 2.2.

I have tried the following but with no avail:
1) Put back the 1GB RAM
2) Reseated the following: HDD, RAM and WiFi
3) Update BIOS to rev 22 (Step 6)
4) Update Windows Drivers (Step 7)

I also came across the following blog entry that suggests to disable "Quick Boot" which I will try tomorrow (English description at the end):
http://crashsource.de/114-acer-insydeh2 ... rgang-ein/

Kindly please advise what can be done before I send it back to Lenovo.
Any help and suggestion is greatly appreciated ;-)
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titushoon
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Dear all,

The issue seems to be resolved after installing the latest storage matrix driver from Intel. The boot time drop from 15minutes to approx 40 seconds.

It appears that the EFI BIOSes is very sensitive even to the drivers used by Windows?

Regards,
Titus
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Most likely the NetOp guest software was the culprit combined with an older video driver. Have had major issues in the past with it...
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