Athlon 64 system, how long to boot?

[balletto]

I'm trying to get a handle on how well or poorly my newly built system is working. I think it's working pretty well; the only question I have left is how long it takes to boot into Windows XP Pro.

My system:
socket 939 athlon 64 3200+, overclocked to 2.25ghz
asus a8n-e motherboard
seagate 7200.8 250gb sata drive
1gb of corsair value memory, running at around 187mhz
currently using the nvidia ide drivers

The boot time from the asus splash screen to me being able to log into windows is around 30-35 seconds. That seems a bit slow to me; a 3.2ghz intel machine I had a few months ago was up and running in around 15 seconds.

Yes I know, what's 15 seconds between friends, but any tips would be helpful.

 

[Texun]

Abit AV8 with a stock Newcastle 3800@2450, Samsung 160g IDE, and 1 gig of cheap PC3200 Corsair takes about 15-secs to my XP logon prompt after the BIOS screen clears. Where did you get the 187MHz ram?

 

[furballi]

31 seconds...from the time I hit the power button to when I first see my desktop. This includes loading McAfee 8.0i and Zone Alarm Pro firewall. Without those two items, the boot time is 29 seconds.

Your system may take longer if there's a problem loading a specific device during boot.

 

[Promethply]

I set mine to boot quickly in the BIOS, and it takes about 15 seconds to reach WinXP.

 

[Peter]

Boot time is greatly dependent on how carefully you've set up your I/O. Disable everything that makes no connection - unused IDE or SATA channels, unconnected LAN ports, etc. The scan timeouts on those quickly add up to many seconds.

Above that, bootup time is mostly a function of HDD speed.

 

[keeleysam]

Mine takes ~45 seconds, but that is because I have so much crap installed.

 

[balletto]

re: 187mhz RAM
I underclocked the memory, so I could achieve the overclock on the processor

 

[NotquiteanooB]

2 seconds ! But only because it's coming out of "standby". My PC's run 24-7-365; and each has a UPS good for about 17 minutes of power fail., but will shutdown after 5 minutes.
Keep your 'start' list with only the necessary O/S items checked. Eliminate desktop shortcuts and in Bios turn off all unnecessary/unused hardware; and set for quick post. 15 seconds is pretty good timing.

 

[Gerbil333]

Originally posted by: Peter
Boot time is greatly dependent on how carefully you've set up your I/O. Disable everything that makes no connection - unused IDE or SATA channels, unconnected LAN ports, etc. The scan timeouts on those quickly add up to many seconds.

Above that, bootup time is mostly a function of HDD speed.

I have a Raptor 74 GB. My system would boot in about 15-20 seconds after formatting, but as soon as I installed my Audigy 2 ZS, it took another 15 seconds. That card does that on every machine I've used.

 

[The Pentium Guy]

Whaat? Mine takes only 20 seconds, and I don't have a raptor. Of course, I keep nothing enabled on startup .P4C 3.0, asus p4p800-e deluxe, geil pc3200 2.5, maxtor diamondmax9