Hoping to speed up my Photoshop, I just reflashed the bios on my year-old Dell, from version A02 to A09. But now a 131M tiff from my slide scanner opens in about 8 or 9 seconds, instead of the 5 seconds previously. Doing this after a fresh reboot, on a quiet system, original c: drive. Photoshop starts a lot slower too, but I didn't think to time it before.
I posted a question on the Dell BIOS forum, but was just advised that stopwatches shouldn't be used to guess disk performance -- disappointing answer. While I'm not claiming great accuracy, there's a terrible slowdown here, and test after test is consistent.
Any ideas? I guess I can always reflash to some older level, but I hate to do that. I had added a couple of PCI cards in the interim -- a firewire for the scanner and a disk controller doing udma -- but don't see a connection there. But then I really don't know how much resource allocation the bios does on a reflash.
Thanks for any ideas,
~Lynn
LD7@LDCamera.com
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