Hello everybody,

I'm doing some tests with an M748LMRT, SiS 620 video card, OS Win98SE.

Without the video drivers, the boot time is about 10 seconds.

When the video driver is installed (either v1.04 or v1.07), the boot time goes up to 17 seconds!

I also found a TSR (S620107.exe), without any documentation, supposed to be loaded with AUTOEXEC.bat before booting. It improves boot speed considerably, it's back to 10 seconds! But it takes up 64K of conventional memory and that's quite a lot. How does it work?

This S620107.exe doesn't have any switches and once you load it there's no way to unload it. Running it again will result in a second instance, reducing your conventional memory even further.

Is there a way to reduce the boot time? A tweaked driver for this video card? Or maybe there's a way to unload this TSR after booting? What are your thoughts?

Update:
It's in the Wayback Machine.
http://web.archive.org/web/20020203045249/htt … /driver/620.htm
https://web.archive.org/web/20020209092006/ht … 620/s620107.exe

BIOS Updating Utility for most 620 platform. This TSR file is able to update your 620 VGA BIOS to the newest version 1.07. The using method only put it on C:\ and add one line "s620107.exe" into autoexec.bat, it will update BIOS when system boot up.