any change on this BIOS?

Now I can change the screen brightness when the splash screen appears. I don't know if this has to do with 1305, but I remember some time ago trying this and not being able to do it until windows loaded completely

Last edited by emfa (2009-01-18 6:44:12 pm)

daniboy79 wrote:

i've always been able to adjust the screen brightness, even on the Asus Boot screen way before the OS starts loading.

Yeah me too. I can change the brightness even when in BIOS or during boot to any OS. I've always been able to do that.

madmook wrote:

The last update (1205 or 1206) has been problem-free so far, so unless we get a changelist for 1305 I'm not gonna bother.

The change list says 'Optimise memory'. Unfortunately, no further details are given.

Seems to be a little snappier when booting

Well I did a cold boot test first with BIOS 1206 and then with 1305. Now I did not load up into the full windows desktop environment, just to the log on screen. I am password protected and forgot to temporarily get rid of that before I did the test. Now its to late because I already flashed 1305 but I will give you the results anyway.
My eee was connected to AC power for these tests.

1206: 41.74 seconds
1305: 38.18 seconds

Now I only tested them once so its not really great data. Also it was using my cellphones stopwatch not a boot speed tester on the computer itself. So my timings are going to be a bit rough.

Epy wrote:

Seems to be a little snappier when booting

not entirely sure if its actually any fast then the old bios, but now bootbooster works on all start ups, including standby, hibernate and cold start, b4 it would only work on restarts done in XP, all other times it would show the EEE splash screen for 7-9 secs, so maybe that is where it seems faster.

My boot times r:
Cold Start
32 secs to logon/welcome screen
51 secs to desktop, complete startup, connected to wifi.

I used bootracer to time.
http://www.greatis.com/bootracer/


I still prefer using Hibernate, takes 25 secs to boot and it also shuts down in 11 secs.

Last edited by imu123 (2009-01-20 12:23:45 pm)

I ran a very informal test with my wristwatch chronograph and I noticed about a 2-3 second improvement in cold start bootup time with 1305.  I did not change any BIOS settings or any XP drivers or change the XP startup configuration in any way.  I had been running the  "unofficial" 1301 BIOS, by the way.

Took the plunge, and there's a definite cold boot time improvement. Went from ~30secs down to ~25secs for me, I use a 16gb transcend ssd.

hkklife wrote:

.....I had been running the  "unofficial" 1301 BIOS, by the way.

Kudos for being brave by acting as guinea pig for the benefit of the rest of us and

Hi,

Installed 1305 here.

No obvious difference for me but I didn't do
any speed testing.

Tested with XP home on HD and Puppy 4.1.2
on 16gb sd-card. All seems ok.

Thought there'd be more interest in this subject?
Maybe not broken so don't fix has its merits


.....rd

MikeMurphy wrote:

When my Windows XP logo fades in on startup it does so at a REALLY slow rate.  There is no disk activity, it just seems it labours to fade it in.

This is a clean Ghost OS restore and has occured since I updated Bios from 1206 to 1305.

Anyone else have this problem?

I had this issue b4,  uninstall Daemon tool and then manually remove sptd.sys

http://forum.eeeuser.com/viewtopic.php? … 30#p459130

http://forum.eeeuser.com/viewtopic.php?pid=456316

Last edited by imu123 (2009-01-28 6:00:27 pm)