how fast does ur pc start up?

[Jeff7]

Cold boot to the first visual of the desktop - 1 minute.
Total time (all background apps loaded) - 1 minute, 40 seconds. I've got all kinds of apps and utilities running. My system tray has 16 items in it right now - and no, I don't consider them to be useless junk. 🙂

 

[JustAnAverageGuy]

Originally posted by: buleyb

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey

Originally posted by: JustAnAverageGuy

Originally posted by: gnef
I'd say about 2 minutes or so, but then i am going through three bios' (motherboard, scsi, ide card), 1280MB of ECC registered ram, dualboot loader, and am running a lot of stuff in the background of windows.

-Mel

Yeah, I've been meaning to figure out a way to get rid of Grub and still have my Win XP still load 😛

Aside from the scsi and 1280MB of ECC ram, pretty much same situation.

If by Grub, you mean the Linux bootloader:
Boot from XP cd, go into recovery console (that command line thingy)
fixboot

You should also be able to do something like fdisk /mbr from a command line.

actually, the NT bootload is probably still fine, so from the recovery console, fixmbr should do it

Thanks! I'll try it later tonight after I get home from Easter with the family.

Originally posted by: dripgoss

Yeah, I've been meaning to figure out a way to get rid of Grub and still have my Win XP still load 😛

Run msconfig, and uncheck everything that even looks remotely like a system hog under Startup and then run on over to services.msc and stop/set to disbled all the things that aren't absolutely necessary (Like Remote Access, etc..) When in doubt search for "blkviper" on google for XP optimization...

I've gotten my Compaq Presario R3000T lappy to boot under 15 seconds and that's with a crappy 4200RPM HDD!!! (Boy, don't I just deserve a cookie?!)
😀

Read above. Good try though 🙂

 

[dripgoss]

DOH! Scratch that.. I just read the original post again!!

You can tell I haven't done Linux since Red Hat 5.2 because when I read "grub" I was thinking "crud"!!!

Damn Windows will rot yer brain!!

 

[Sid59]

30 seconds after the desktop and all the startups are loaded. and my ide controller card has to read also.

i get lazy and have a few apps start up which i normally don't have. plus, i don't really turn off or reboot my computer, so it's ok.

 

[SilentZero]

boot up time: 12 seconds, +- a second
shut down time: ~9 seconds

 

[NokiaDude]

20-25 seconds with XP. MUCH better than a minute for ME.

 

[InlineFive]

Around 20 seconds

 

[Reliant]

Originally posted by: Smithyoffline
michael computers would have the best start up times he he he

My Mike's Comp. gets 4 seconds. 😛

 

[Dennis Travis]

My AMD 2400+ with 1GB DDR and XP Pro SP1 takes 22-25 Seconds, Intel 2.53Ghz 1Gig DDR with XP Home SP1 takes 30 Seconds and my Mac G4 500 with 768 Megs RAM and OS 10.3.3 takes 12-15 seconds to desktop.

Now if I had my Instant Boot, Instant access Michaels system it would be at the desktop in .01 seconds!!!

 

[JustAnAverageGuy]

Originally posted by: buleyb

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey

Originally posted by: JustAnAverageGuy

Originally posted by: gnef
I'd say about 2 minutes or so, but then i am going through three bios' (motherboard, scsi, ide card), 1280MB of ECC registered ram, dualboot loader, and am running a lot of stuff in the background of windows.

-Mel

Yeah, I've been meaning to figure out a way to get rid of Grub and still have my Win XP still load 😛

Aside from the scsi and 1280MB of ECC ram, pretty much same situation.

If by Grub, you mean the Linux bootloader:
Boot from XP cd, go into recovery console (that command line thingy)
fixboot

You should also be able to do something like fdisk /mbr from a command line.

actually, the NT bootload is probably still fine, so from the recovery console, fixmbr should do it

Hey! it worked 🙂 HDD0 would always crash on boot-up. HDD1 had Linux on it. HDD0 now works, and I can switch to HDD1 if I need linux. Nice 🙂

Thanks for the help guys 🙂

 

[Bassyhead]

around 10 seconds to get to login from poweroff, 15 more seconds to get to desktop and load stuff

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: buleyb

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey

Originally posted by: JustAnAverageGuy

Originally posted by: gnef
I'd say about 2 minutes or so, but then i am going through three bios' (motherboard, scsi, ide card), 1280MB of ECC registered ram, dualboot loader, and am running a lot of stuff in the background of windows.

-Mel

Yeah, I've been meaning to figure out a way to get rid of Grub and still have my Win XP still load 😛

Aside from the scsi and 1280MB of ECC ram, pretty much same situation.

If by Grub, you mean the Linux bootloader:
Boot from XP cd, go into recovery console (that command line thingy)
fixboot

You should also be able to do something like fdisk /mbr from a command line.

actually, the NT bootload is probably still fine, so from the recovery console, fixmbr should do it

Ok. I don't have any experience with this. 😛

 

[SneakyStuff]

30-35 seconds, compared to the 1-2 minute bootup I had with my old PIII, so I'm pretty happy 🙂