ReBoot Time

[lewikenzie1]

i have 4x2gbDDR-2 ram

 

[corvet786c]

Here is mine my system is:

AMD anthlon 64 x2 6000 dual core

Dual Channel 667 Mhz 4GB

Western Digital 300 GB Raptor 10000 rpms

Stock Motherboard Asus M2N68-LA

650 watt BGF Power supply

Oh This is windows 7 Home Premium

 

[corvet786c]

Here is another one gave me 2 sec faster by disabling NO BUI in msconfig.

 

[fatedquest]

I've decided to make a video of the 30 seconds reboot.

 

[corvet786c]

Wow Fast man

 

[Dom]

Okay, i'm amazed at the speed of SSD's now!

 

[pparks1]

Thanks for posting the video clip. With SSD drives...I think we have reached the point where now we have to try to come up with motherboards that POST as fast as possible. Honestly, my POST takes as long as my Windows boot on my desktop. My laptop on the other hand gets through the post 3x as fast.

 

[fatedquest]

Thanks for posting the video clip. With SSD drives...I think we have reached the point where now we have to try to come up with motherboards that POST as fast as possible. Honestly, my POST takes as long as my Windows boot on my desktop. My laptop on the other hand gets through the post 3x as fast.

I don't have any desktops, but on all my laptops, the POST are all very brief. There should be an option asking your what kind of boot your would like. My BIOS has a few options and I'm using quick boot.

 

[subyroo]

The vb script screws with my IKARI Laser mouse on reboot, I have to shutdown and reboot the PC again to get any use from it.

Anyway the vb script throws up a window stating it takes 86secs for mine to Reboot.

 

[RST101]

I vote that all users who claim to have a sub-30s restart time should prove it with a YouTube video... Cuz that just seems too damn good to be true! (and because I'm jealous). LOL.

Videos can be edited.

 

[ZaLiTH]

I've decided to make a video of the 30 seconds reboot.

Wow... Nice one! That is seriously imprsesive..

Videos can be edited.

Lol, I know... I do a bit of that in my spare time, but it's easier to edit a picture than a video.

 

[maciacia1]

second is not bad but first one ive done everything possible to slow it down and i guess thats a record

 

[Avenger20]

1st image is my normal boot time 2nd is just a minimalistic boot. i will try for a faster boot during the week i may also mess around with hdparm on one of my other hdd's to try and get it even faster. using a 7200rpm hdd

 

[pparks1]

I don't have any desktops, but on all my laptops, the POST are all very brief. There should be an option asking your what kind of boot your would like. My BIOS has a few options and I'm using quick boot.

Yes, on my laptops the post is very brief as well. However, with desktop mobos they usually have support for more hardware and thus take longer to complete. I've trimmed down and turned off everything in the BIOS that I don't need...but still sit at more than 20 seconds from power button press to starting Windows.

I don't mind that my desktop takes longer to post than my laptop. Because once the box comes up, my desktop absolutely demolishes my laptop in terms of performance. So, even though it might not boot up as fast...it's so much stronger that there isn't hardly a comparison to be made between the two of them.

 

[Avenger20]

I don't have any desktops, but on all my laptops, the POST are all very brief. There should be an option asking your what kind of boot your would like. My BIOS has a few options and I'm using quick boot.

Yes, on my laptops the post is very brief as well. However, with desktop mobos they usually have support for more hardware and thus take longer to complete. I've trimmed down and turned off everything in the BIOS that I don't need...but still sit at more than 20 seconds from power button press to starting Windows.

I don't mind that my desktop takes longer to post than my laptop. Because once the box comes up, my desktop absolutely demolishes my laptop in terms of performance. So, even though it might not boot up as fast...it's so much stronger that there isn't hardly a comparison to be made between the two of them.

my post is only there for 2 or 3 seconds and i have a desktop. i believe the more usb devices etc you have plugged in the longer you post will take

 

[pparks1]

my post is only there for 2 or 3 seconds and i have a desktop. i believe the more usb devices etc you have plugged in the longer you post will take

It all depends upon the mobo and such. For example, from the time I press the power button, it takes 5-6 seconds before anything even appears on my screen. So, it's 5-6 seconds before the POST even begins while it initializes the video card and such. Then it counts up the RAM and such...then discovers my devices and such....its about 20 seconds when post is verifying data pool stuff. Then, 2 or 3 seconds of blank screen and then starting Windows 7. From there, only about 13-14 seconds until desktop.

 

[fatedquest]

my post is only there for 2 or 3 seconds and i have a desktop. i believe the more usb devices etc you have plugged in the longer you post will take

My post doesn't seem to take longer whether I plug in more USB devices or not, however Window's does take longer to give me full control of the desktop if I have more stuff connected

I installed the chipset driver which I forgot to and viola my reboot times goes down again. I just added another startup program too. Next target is 25 seconds, I think I need to remove some junk in my PC. I'm pretty happy to get 28 seconds with a full load of startup programs though. Two OCZ vertex in RAID 0 = 1 Intel SSD

 

[DaGooN]

not sure if this is the same app.

Windows Boot timer 1.0



This utility is Windows Boot timer. Simply double click on the executable & upon restart, it will display the time taken by your computer to load windows. It does not take into effect the time taken to go through BIOS or BIOS bootup password. It takes the time from the instant BIOS starts loading Windows.

Download windows Boot timer and application Launch Timer

 

[ZaLiTH]

not sure if this is the same app.

Windows Boot timer 1.0

Not quite the same app, but an interesting one nonetheless... The app used in these screen shots is found here.

 

[Brian6121990]

i need help with faster boot times,,,recently i just noticed yesterday that it went from 45-46 seconds to over a minute....i havent downloaded anything. i just wish i can boot my pc in around 30-40 seconds.

oh and i noticed in my add/remove programs list that i see multiple programs with the name of "microsoft visual c+++..." and "microsoft sql server 2005"? what is that used for? sounds like something i dont use...anyone know?