fastest boot time

[bwanaaa]

which mobo/cpu/ram combo would give the fastest post.? i am assuming that windows xphome is the fastest booting os.

 

[DivideBYZero]

Originally posted by: bwanaaa
which mobo/cpu/ram combo would give the fastest post.? i am assuming that windows xphome is the fastest booting os.

This is highly dependant on your Services and drivers loaded at boot time as much as the speed of your system. As soon as you add 15 drivers for extra hardware, add some services and have several 'Agents' in your task tray for 5 or 6 proggies, the fastest booting setup is suddenly a lot slower...

 

[CraigRT]

fast hard drive, and alot of fast memory help it alot.
but it's very important to have a clean install, like he said.
windows xp and sometimes 98 have very fast boot times.
2000 won't beat them, that's for sure.

 

[ShinSa]

fastest boot time?

try DOS 6.0.

no windows OS will beat that.

XP is probably slower of the bunch.

Although Microsoft claims that it has faster boot time than previous OS, they're lying.

Independent study by PC world showed that it's not any faster than 98.

 

[Budman]

Suspend to ram, you're back in under 5 secs.

 

[nikko]

Originally posted by: Budman
Suspend to ram, you're back in under 5 secs.

What does that mean?

 

[sniperruff]

my soltek KT 333 board SL-75DRV5 takes 2 second to startup BIOS

tomshardware review

fast HD and more ram sure helps. there is significant increase of booting speed when i got a 120g WD special ed in place of a 80g maxtor 7200rpm (2 mb cache)

and WIN98 boots fastest for me. it booted in 5 seconds or something close to that when i first built my comp, on the old maxtor

why ask? even 10 seconds faster is not a big diff IMO

 

[theknight571]

I've got a Dell P4 2.4 Gig at work that I put DOS 6.something on....From "off" to a c:> prompt in 6 seconds.

- TK

 

[ShinSa]

On my windows XP machine, I use the hibernate mode instead of shutoff. It takes aboiut 100meg but it's worth it.

Now when I press the power switch on the case, the OS stores everything to disk, and then turns itself off.

When I press the power button again, the machine goes through all the bios stuff and loads the OS state back onto memory.

It was much faster since the OS did not have to go searching through the disk to find TSR and OS process, thus reducing disk access time.

Since the DISK time is the biggest bottleneck on todays computer, the computer boots up muc faster.

I shaved about 10sec off boot time.

 

[ShinSa]

Originally posted by: nikko

Originally posted by: Budman
Suspend to ram, you're back in under 5 secs.

What does that mean?

I beleive he's talking about a mode called supspend which dumps everything to disk memory and powers down the computer to a power saving mode.

This doesn't completely solve the problem since the computer is physically "ON".

Look though your BIOS and there should be some detailed explanation.

There should be a hierarchy in power saving as follows.

Shutdown -> suspend -> standby -> sleep ... and so on...

I don't think I got the orders correct but you get the idea.

 

[DX2Player]

My computer is real screwy. I have an Asus P4T533 with 512 RIMM 4200 RDRAM, 2.53 P4, 80gig WD SE 8MB, and Windows XP Home Edition. It takes only about 10 seconds for my computer to get to the desktop where i can immediatly use some windows operations like controll pannel and calculator but i have to wait another 80 seconds to use any programs like WC3 or 3DMark2001. I can click on my internet connection and it wont pop up till that time is done, my computer is not doing anythign durring that time as the hard drive is inactive. After the 80 extra seconds or so all my desktop icons flicker and anythign that i tried to start before will all open at once. I tried turring off all my startup programs in msconfig and it didnt do squat, please help if you have any ideas its a pain in the ass trying to oc and benchmark like this.

 

[KingofFah]

Depends on the system. A nice SCSI raid will be ready to roll in windows in, what seems like, and instant.
On my system, 2k is the slowest (seems to get slower when I disable un-needed services?)
When I had XP Pro, it booted in a little under 15secs.
98 is still the best if you know how to tweak it right. I got it to do 5 seconds, and about 15 seconds on my old 667 celeron with 64mb of ram.

 

[Ipno]

My windows XP system comes up from complete power off pretty quick, quicker than it did when it had 98 installed on it, something which amazed me to be honest.

But yeah, the fastest booting I ever did was on my 386 it would boot into dos 6 in like 3 seconds flat from switch on to command prompt.

Came in really handy when I was fooling around with ASM back in college, I would crash the system in so many unique and interesting ways, was nice to be able to reboot quickly.