2 pcie cards long boot

[flybye]

Here is the deal I have 2 pcie cards running independant of each other 1 Nvidia 6800 GS running 2 Lcds and 1 Nvidia 8500 GT running 1 Lcd, they are running on the latest Nvidia drivers.

It can take any where around 5 minutes to boot Vista most times. If I pull any 1 of the cards does not matter which Vista boots fine.

I have XP on another drive and boot to it and both cards work fine and XP Pro boots fast every time.

On ocasion Vista will boot fast with both in but most times not.

System:
Lattest Bios
Windows Vista Ultimate SP1
ASUS A8N32-SLI Deluxe 939 NVIDIA nForce4 SLI X16
AMD Athlon 64 Dual core 4200
Raptor raid 0 aray
2 gigs ram

 

[Slugbait]

Yup, you're probably another person bitten by Vista on old hardware. A BIOS update would likely fix the issue, but don't count on any more for the 939s.