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11-30-2001, 11:42 PM
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How long it takes to boot your PC?
Just wonder, how long it takes everyones PC to boot and:
-Specs?[cpu/ram] -Win ver.? -Whats running on startup? mine: ~1min. 2x 400mhz Cel @558mhz ea, 256Mb sdram -Win2000 -InoculateIT, ZA Last edited by Gintaras; 12-01-2001 at 01:36 AM. |
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12-01-2001, 01:19 AM
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Well, I can't tell you exact time but my Ultra 160 SCSI card slows the boot process down a bit since it initalizes the SCSI cdroms and the SCSI hdd before the OS begins to boot.
Specs: Athlon 1.33ghz/768mb pc-133 ram Win ver.: Win2k What's running at startup?: Sygate personal firewall, InnoculateIT, Motherboard monitor, RC5, Sound icon, Network monitors icon. |
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12-01-2001, 01:25 AM
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Just built new pc (this is my first post on it). Win XP, 256MB RDRAM, 1.7GHz P4. Takes about 10 seconds to cold boot.
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12-01-2001, 02:04 AM
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Are you timing from the time you depress the button on your case, or starting from the time the Windows loading screen appears?
The BIOS should take around 5 seconds to initialize the drives and count ram (not to mention the video card BIOS), so unless you can boot Windows fully in 5 sec. flat, that time seems a bit quick. |
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12-01-2001, 03:53 AM
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Complete boot times:
00s/00s: pressing power button 02s/02s: hard drives begin spinning, first signal to monitor is send 03s/05s: graphics card BIOS showing 09s/14s: main BIOS initialise, CD-RW and DVD drives auto detect 08s/22s: HPT BIOS routine, hard drives auto detect 01s/23s: Check for CDROM boot 13s/36s: Windows load (till GUI appears) 07s/43s: starting the startup programs (till full functionality) ----------------------------------------------------------------- I need 43s from pressing the power button till I can use Windows Startup programs: Explorer, Systray, RunDLL (Taskbar Display Controls), DirectCD, Scanreg, TweakUI, PVR Reset 10 seconds ? Hmm. Well, a friend of mine boots within 15-20 seconds from pressing the power button till ME is fully available (BIOS 1s, the rest is Windows load). Anyway 10s seems a bit too quick for me, too. For pure Windows load, ok, but from pressing the power button. . . RJ
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12-01-2001, 05:11 AM
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5-7 seconds .. Linux! Athlon XP 1600+
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12-01-2001, 06:44 AM
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OK! Take it to the next step---> What do you actually need to boot up your pc, I mean can you customize it to just do the minimum to get it to boot up faster? Other that scanreg do you even need that when you do a back up regularly!!! Inquiring slow pc owners want to know
 ScottyOh, by the time I select the drive to boot to and enter my PW 42 sec! Last edited by Scotty; 12-01-2001 at 10:55 AM. |
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12-01-2001, 07:46 AM
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~2minutes.
PIII 1.0GHz 256MB RAM 20GHz IDE HDD Win XP Pro
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12-01-2001, 06:52 PM
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On my machine it takes about 35 sec. totally.
AMD 1400@1600 Mhz 512Mb Pc166 RAM 550W Powersupply Diskette stations x2 CD Player 48X CD Burner 12X OS : W2K Advanced Server Norton Antivirus Corp. Edition. |
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12-01-2001, 08:21 PM
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Mondsreitersmann
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Welcome aboard Bluesky2!!
Mine takes about a minute and a half. PIII @ 550 160 MB RAM 20 GB HD Win98FE Running on startup: Prassi abCD, Norton AV 5.0, SB Live! Creative Launcher, Diamond Video Controls.
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12-01-2001, 08:49 PM
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Long enough so that I can go take a leak and grab another cup of coffee. Being that I'm still running NT4 Workstation, this isn't very often and I honestly never timed it.
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12-01-2001, 08:54 PM
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50 secs with Zone Alarm and AVG antivirus loading. My new hard drive and cd burner seem to have added five seconds to my bootup time.
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12-02-2001, 04:11 AM
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22 seconds flat ! and its ready to work.
AMD 1800XP, 1gh 2100 DDR SDRAM, XP Home, IBM 40G 7,200 rpm ATA-100, Aopen AK77 Pro, Acer 12x8x32, Aopen 52X, Int Ide LS-120, GeForce MX 400-tv out, 300w Aopen p/s, HX45a case Norton Anti virus, Office Pro, Find Fast, MBM-5. Last edited by Terrorbyte; 12-02-2001 at 04:46 AM. |
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12-02-2001, 04:34 AM
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54 seconds
SYSTEM: 800PIII 384 Mb RAM Windows 98 se 30gb IDE hd DVD 10x CD-rw 4x8x24 Startup: msn, icq, morpheus... bunch of other stuff I'm not sure about. Last edited by Razzel; 12-02-2001 at 04:36 AM. |
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12-02-2001, 05:19 PM
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Average time 1 min.
Norton antivirus, direct cd, winpoet. |
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12-03-2001, 11:07 AM
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boot time
my P-1 90 overclocked to 133 took almost 3 minutes to boot, with very
little running on it. my K6-2 550 usually takes 1 1/2 to 2 minutes, depending on which operating system I boot to, and which configuration I use. My newest computer, AMD thunderbird 1000hz, is usually booted and ready to roll in less than a minute. There are so many variables involved, it's hard to say how quickly you should be booted up, but it is obvious that a faster machine will get you there a whole lot quicker. If you were just taking a survey, this is one answer-------- |
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12-03-2001, 11:21 AM
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my guestimate is about a minute for my machine, i have a promise(66) add on controller card, which i think slows the boot process.
what's running? magic folders(while it's booting, it's in the autexec.bat) zone alarm personal firewall that's it. win98se |
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12-03-2001, 03:30 PM
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As of this morning, 28 seconds from button press to login screen. Check my sig for specs.
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12-18-2001, 07:02 AM
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rebooting
I'm on my 500 AMD, specs below. Since I found the definitive BIOS optimization guide, and tweaked bios, my bootup time has decreased a lot. I just told it to reboot, 10 seconds to shutdown, at 20 seconds start screen appeared, at 65 seconds desktop was open, at 80 seconds, all utilities and programs were loaded.
Not bad for an old machine. Of course, that still seems painfully slow compared to the Athlon! |
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12-18-2001, 11:32 AM
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3 hours, 27 minutes, and 16 seconds...
MUCH faster if I hit the login, and type my password.  Actually about 43 seconds PIII 600@900, 1gig PC150SDRAM, XP Pro, etc. etc. |
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12-19-2001, 06:13 AM
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I've done that man!!!
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12-19-2001, 07:53 AM
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My 1800 box needs about 30 seconds from hitting the button until displaying the login screen. The 1700 is done after 40 seconds. The old Intel Pentium 266 needs more than 90 seconds - mainly because Acer, the manufacturer decided to 'blind' people with its logo for almost 40 seconds when turning on the box.
Christoph
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12-19-2001, 08:12 AM
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I don't know, both my WinME machines are scheduled to reboot themselves in the middle of the night after they are done other maintenance, so I rarely see it.
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12-20-2001, 08:03 PM
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Log in? What is log in?
Am I missing something? |
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12-20-2001, 09:35 PM
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Mondsreitersmann
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My new system takes one minute. (Athlon XP 1700+)
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12-22-2001, 06:52 PM
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Win2k Autologon - P-Pro overclocked ,196Mb Ram, 58 seconds.. System Tray ,Zone Alarm Pro,Network Disabled..,Clock, Speaker, NAV disabled..
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01-06-2002, 12:18 AM
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My newest build takes 19 seconds to boot with everything running. I deleted all of my pwl files so I won't get that login screen. 4 second to shut off. Duron 750, Western Digital 40gig ata 100 7200rpm hard drive, 256 megs of pc133 sdram, Windows ME
However the computer at the bottom of the page takes 2 minutes to boot. 10 seconds to shut down...
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01-06-2002, 01:04 AM
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a tad over 70 seconds on my PII 400mhz, 320mb ram, windows 98SE. only things I have running at startup are Scanregistry, Taskmonitor, SystemTray, mouse software, and 2 LoadPowerProfiles. the mouse is the only thing I have load for fun. I'd take the other things off if I had any idea what they did (and I didn't need them). I also have a duron system that is unavailable for comment.
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01-06-2002, 01:08 AM
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Lets see... It takes long enough that I don't want to restart it to time it...
Hmm, I can take a leak, and my bathroom is a LONG ways off(soon to be changed to lower AFK time in TFC games...), grab a Coke(no Pepsi for me), finish wakeing up(+30seconds), then see the enter password screen. If I made my password 1 letter that would cut off some time  to impress the people here... After entering password, Direct CD takes a little while to load, probbably about 10seconds. Overall, probbably 1-2Min.Logan
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01-06-2002, 01:29 AM
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48 seconds, Win XP multi-user with password,ZA PRO,Network,PC-cillin,HP printer and popup stopper
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