How fast does your computer boot?

[IEatChildren]

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I booted to a useable state in 11.9 seconds

However I get an error saying Disk Caching is disabled and the option to enable it is greyed out

This is on my system:

XP 2400+ stock speed
Epox 8RDA+ (nforce2)
768MB PC2100 dual channel 512-256
GeForce4 Ti4200
160MB Maxtor ATA133 7200RPM HD
Liteon 24x10x40 CDRW
Afreey 8x DVD
Onboard sound/LAN both being used
Windows XP Professional w/o SP1

 

[Confused]

The one in my car boots to playing music in about 35 seconds, including POST.

That's a VIA Epia M10000 - 1GHz, 256mb DDR, 40gb Maxtor 7200rpm drive. It's also initilising the USB2 IDE adapter (for the slimline CD drive), USB GPS reciever, USB touchscreen and USB 802.11b adapter If I take the CD/GPS/WiFi off it cuts down by about 10 seconds



Confused

 

[Confused]

Stupid net connection here at work :|

 

[Sid59]

eh forget. but having to read the ata controller slows it down by 5 seconds or more.

 

[eplebnista]

~45 Seconds

 

[XZeroII]

about 4 minutes. XP1800+, 1gb RAM, AIW Radeon 9700Pro, 280gb hdd.

Would be longer if I still had my RAID array.

 

[TheAudit]

Home PC - about ten seconds. Last PC - about a minute.
Work PC - about 45 seconds.

 

[GalvanizedYankee]

Just rebooted. 20 seconds thats with a 5 second delay to the HD.

Thats so this newbie can hit f2 to get into the bios to mess up an
otherwise stable system..

 

[Ryan]

Common, let's cut to the chase before this thread get's out of hand: My penis is bigger than yours.

There, I said what you subliminally wanted to know.

 

[gistech1978]

if youre using bootvis & it says that disk caching is disabled
that is apparently a very very very old bug.
its not disabled.
and my system at home takes forever to boot.
well over a minute, dont know why.
2600+
180FSB
dual channel memory 512
win xp pro sp1

 

[XZeroII]

Originally posted by: rbloedow
Common, let's cut to the chase before this thread get's out of hand: My penis is bigger than yours.

There, I said what you subliminally wanted to know.

Mine is SIGNIFICANTLY bigger than anyone else's so far.

 

[SWScorch]

about 30 seconds or so. For some reason my dad's takes about 5 minutes, and I don't know why. It always has.

 

[Amused]

From the time I push the power button to the time Windows is fully loaded is 39 seconds.

Of course, those folks with RAID arrays must go through the RAID BIOS display.

This is the fastest booting machine I have ever had.

3.2c @3.2
P4C800-E
1 GB Mushkin L2 PC3500 @ 2-2-2-6
GF 5900nu @ 450/900
2x 36.7GB Raptors in RAID-0
TB Santa Cruz
WinXP pro SP1 and all updates

See P4c machine in my sig.

 

[brtspears2]

Less than 60 seconds, darn RAID, 2 network cards, and other goodies and me leaving cd's in drives (should disable booting from cd to save that costly 2 seconds)

160MB Maxtor ATA133 7200RPM HD

Where did you get a 160MB drive these days?

 

[Anubis]

a lil while. PCI ide card takes a while. also windows bar goes around like 10 times. it used to only go round 3

 

[theNEOone]

my dell notebook boots in less than 10 seconds. my raid-0 desktop takes a little over a minute ......"checkin raid paritions for integrity"

 

[thereds]

Originally posted by: Confused
The one in my car boots to playing music in about 35 seconds, including POST.

That's a VIA Epia M10000 - 1GHz, 256mb DDR, 40gb Maxtor 7200rpm drive. It's also initilising the USB2 IDE adapter (for the slimline CD drive), USB GPS reciever, USB touchscreen and USB 802.11b adapter If I take the CD/GPS/WiFi off it cuts down by about 10 seconds



Confused

I'd like some pics of this please.

 

[Amused]

Originally posted by: theNEOone
my dell notebook boots in less than 10 seconds. my raid-0 desktop takes a little over a minute ......"checkin raid paritions for integrity"

Your Dell lappy boots, or wakes up from standby in less than 10 seconds??? I have a hard time believing a system, ANY consumer system can post and load windows in less than 10 seconds. I think you're confusing boot with wake.

 

[Abhi]

From the time I push the power button to the time WindowsXP loads up (with norton antivirus/msn messenger) and hdd activity stops is 1 minute 55 seconds.

But then... what do u expect from a p3 450!

 

[Abhi]

Originally posted by: Amused

Originally posted by: theNEOone my dell notebook boots in less than 10 seconds. my raid-0 desktop takes a little over a minute ......"checkin raid paritions for integrity"

Your Dell lappy boots, or wakes up from standby in less than 10 seconds??? I have a hard time believing a system, ANY consumer system can post and load windows in less than 10 seconds. I think you're confusing boot with wake.

Hmm ... u must mean that it recovers from standby mode/hibernation...

if not... which lappy do u own ?

 

[EstoyLoco]

mine takes 30 mins to an hour
cause im not a minute man

 

[alexruiz]

36 seconds average.... (2500+, maxtor 30GB, winXP home, Nforce2)

I guess we need to define exactly what is considered as boot time.... I measure mine from the point that I press the power button to where the disk stops reading AND the mouse cursor changes from the clock to the arrow....

Some laptops have extremely fast boot times.... I still can't beat my old presario 1200-XL119 (K6-2 500, win98, 128 PC100).... 28 seconds in a fresh install.....

 

[nick1985]

id say about 30 seconds. rig in sig.

 

[Overkiller]

1700+ system boots in 8 seconds (tweaked), P4C boots in 14 (not tweaked yet), Athlon 1.2 boots in 21 seconds

I've always had fast systems

 

[nick1985]

Originally posted by: Overkiller
1700+ system boots in 8 seconds (tweaked), P4C boots in 14 (not tweaked yet), Athlon 1.2 boots in 21 seconds

I've always had fast systems

8 seconds? i call BS