9600XT card: 27 seconds to wait until first screen at boot

Hi all,

I am a bit curious about the time needed to see the first screen at cold
boot (after a power-off at the back of PC ). I would appreciate any
information about whether any of you have
the same problem or not.

I have a Sapphire 9600XT on a Gigabyte 8IK1100 (i865 chip), which will only
show the first screen at boot after about 27 seconds. Using it in an Asus
P4P800 DLX
will be almost the same. The only one way to see the POST screen at boot is
to reboot
by Ctrl + Alt + Del (warm boot).

I took out the card, look at the only jumper at the top-left corner, which
is for TV. The
jumper is set at 2-3 pins, for PAL. I changed it to 1-2 pin for NTSC; though
I do not
ever use TV with this card.

Then, at boot, the time to wait reduces to about 17 seconds. Still there is
no way to see
screen as fast as other video cards I have. Not that is very terrible thing;
but it will be very
annoying when I need to test some change made with adding other components
or hard
disks, etc.

TIA

Max