> BTW, I've also noticed that a large chunk of the delay, with i440fx, is
> not even spent loading data from the IDE CD-ROM. IDE emulation means host
> CPU load, but in this case, Windows just sits there with the empty
> purplish/bluish screen, and there is zero host CPU load -- nothing
> happens. It's as if Windows was waiting for some timer to expire.
The time Windows spends in this stuck state is exactly 1 minute.
Re: comment 32:
> BTW, I've also noticed that a large chunk of the delay, with i440fx, is
> not even spent loading data from the IDE CD-ROM. IDE emulation means host
> CPU load, but in this case, Windows just sits there with the empty
> purplish/bluish screen, and there is zero host CPU load -- nothing
> happens. It's as if Windows was waiting for some timer to expire.
The time Windows spends in this stuck state is exactly 1 minute.