How long does your PC take to fully boot?

[tranceport]

42





seconds.

 

[olds]

Boot to windows?
Forever, it's hosed. Lost another RAID array.

 

[FiberoN]

2 seconds

 

[SSP]

Just a warning about prefetch thing. After running that program my system BSOD'd about 5 time now in the last 20 minutes.

Take that as only a mild warning, cause the OS was already in a bad shape. I just haven't had the time to do a clean install. I guess i gotta make time after exams.

 

[I Saw OJ]

Originally posted by: brigden
How long does it take your PC to fully boot; from the moment you press the power button to the split second the cursor stops displaying an hourglass?

I timed mine at 38.48 seconds.

I cant remember the last time my computer showed an hourglass cursor


seth

 

[YOyoYOhowsDAjello]

Boooo... Promise controller card without drives attached takes about 20 seconds to decide there's nothing attached + using ancient 10gig as OS drive right now as a temporary measure = about 2 mintues to boot.

 

[dsfunk]

19 minutes

 

[nageov3t]

from cold -> logged into Windows with firefox open takes about 30 seconds on my box.

Originally posted by: Twista

Originally posted by: Cawchy87
My computer -> hard drive -> windows -> prefetch

Delete everything in your prefetch folder and re-boot. It will improve you load times significantly.

If you do this too much it will slow down your pc.

says the guy whose PC takes over 6 minutes to boot up

 

[revnja]

I haven't rebooted in 72 days. Pretty damn fast though, as far as I can remember.

 

[vshah]

~45 secs

 

[ucdbiendog]

1 min from power on. After it passes through all the BIOSes n stuff, maybe 15-20 secs. Runing windows XP pro. my rig is in profile

 

[konakona]

Originally posted by: Cawchy87
My computer -> hard drive -> windows -> prefetch

Delete everything in your prefetch folder and re-boot. It will improve you load times significantly.

i thought disabling prefetch has adverse effects (speed wise) on many of regular windows operations... or so i was told.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Around fifty seconds.

 

[BillyBatson]

26 seconds

 

[Mucho]

Originally posted by: dsfunk
19 minutes

Really

 

[0roo0roo]

i used to care. but windows stable enough now that i don't reboot much anymore. pre xp rebooting used to be so important. it was a sad time.

 

[Bacardi151]

34

 

[Eli]

Not very long.. about 45 seconds.

Realitivly fresh install.

 

[Aves]

I would know because I always use hibernate. That takes about 20 seconds or so.

 

[cavemanmoron]

eleventy billion nanoseconds

 

[T3C]

Originally posted by: KPSHAH316
33 seconds.

Thanks Cawchy-good tip!

about 35 here

 

[jae]

this old pc is usually up for about a week and some days, it takes about 45 secs to reboot

 

[Juno]

Haven't booted for long time. Already passed prime95 test but I don't know how long this computer has been up since. I think two weeks ago or so.

 

[Amused]

I so rarely reboot, I don't know.

I do remember the Windows XP slider bar on the boot screen slides across 4 times before the XP desktop pops up.

 

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