Anybody out there???
I push this post up the list because I really need to know the trick.
I have quite a lot of hard lockups when playing Q3A and have to reboot the dirty way.
I'm really p****d off with this 10 sec delay.

I've no clue, but I'll keep my eye out for something...
 
I wouldn't normally post a non-answer, but I thought you'd like to know that at least one other person is reading these...
 
 
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SuperMicro P6DBS (dual UW-SCSI) BIOS 2.2, 2*Celery 300a @ 450Mhz, 384MB PC100 RAM
SCSI-A=4.3Gb+9Gb, SCSI-B=Tosh32x CD-ROM, Yamaha4416 CD-RW, Iomega ZIP100, IDE1=4.3Gb
IBM EtherJet 10/100 NIC PCI + Nortel ADSL "modem"
Matrox G400 DH 32Mb AGP + Quantum3D Voodoo2 SLI PCI (CL TNT1 AGP on a shelf)
SoundBlaster Live PCI (not Value)
Win2K build 2195 Retail (not 120-day eval)

i'm reading it too, i also hate the 10sec delay, watching four partitions countdown to scan is he11! I'm sure its somewhere in the registry....everything is in the registry for god's sake.

I suspect that the value is hard-coded. I searched the registry for the data value "10", and turned up nothing of note...

Now i didn't test this, but if you start a command prompt ( under program->assoccories )
 
and execute: chkntfs /?
 
can you see a option /T: which is said to change the auto countdown value
 
chkntfs /T returns current setting
chkntfs /T:1 sets it to 1 second
 
 
 
 
[This message has been edited by Claus Hansen Ries (edited 28 April 2000).]

Claus Hansen Ries,
Du bist der Man!
It works!
I did try chkdsk.exe and autochk.exe but did not try chkntfs.exe because all my partitions are Fat32.
Now I can dirty-reboot without boring with this delay. Thx!
You know? I'm happy