[...] But there is only one thing I have seen that is slower than the native L440GX BIOS. An Itanium Box.
I do have to say that I have a little hope for Intel. We use the L440GX extensivly and later versions of the BIOS seem significantly faster than the 7th release we initialy ran. Maybe even twice as fast!
And while I have no problem with BIOS code taking it's time. On a personal level I hate to work with slow BIOS's. And when things are unreasonably slow I suspect that there is something that just doesn't work running in there.
Absolutly, it's reminding me of windoze syndrome.
~Jason