Fast-Boot; What and when???

[brouillet]

I keep hearing about Fast-Boot functionality in Windows ME. It claims to be able to boot-up in under 30 seconds. What's the real deal with this and what hardware (mobos, etc.) truly support it? Thanks!

 

[AMB]

My KT7 seems to support it, it is much faster booting up

 

[blurredvisionx]

Motherboard is not needed to "support" it. It just simply boots up faster, or is supposed to boot up faster, because of the file restructering, and the fact that it skips DOS.

 

[pdo]

If I do a clean install if W2K and took out my SCSI cards. It will boot up that fast in thirty second, but as time goes by all kinds of junk start load and that's when it takes longer to boot.

 

[toph99]

i say that the OS should be stored on a ROM chip, like the old ninetndo's, and that way you get instant boot

 

[mAdD INDIAN]

Didn't the old Macs have a part of MacOS stored on a ROM? However it still took forever to boot up. I think it was the PowerPCs that had that.

 

[Factor5]

I boot up in about 14 secs with a tbird 900, abit kt7, maxtor diamondamx 30.7 ata66 7200, windows 98 first rel, and a $hitload of devices to go with that, i dont know why so fast, but its sweet

 

[SUOrangeman]

Actually, your BIOS must have support for FastBoot. To date, I've only seen motherboards with this feature. Systems, in general, will still boot much faster with WinME ... but that doesn't equate to FastBoot.

-SUO, WinME beta tester