Question JayzTwoCents... missed the memo on disabling Fast Boot in BIOS and Windows.

[VirtualLarry]

Then makes an entire video about it. 😛

 

[VirtualLarry]

I mean, isn't that one of the first things that you do, go to control panel power settings, advanced, change what power buttons do, advanced, shut off Fast Boot?

The default behavior is for the pc to stay powered-up behind the scenes.


(If you want 'off' to mean actual power-down, then you need to implement the above.)

 

[Hans Gruber]

I have watched a lot of Jay2Cents videos. He makes a lot of mistakes and misses simple things. His expertise was always building custom water cooler systems. These young kids on youtube think he is a guru and expert.

 

[burninatortech4]

Jayz has never been very detail oriented.

 

[mikeymikec]

I don't think I've ever switched off Fast Boot in the BIOS. In Windows, definitely (unless it's a HDD booter). Are there any definite advantages of switching off Fast Boot in the BIOS?

 

[DeathReborn]

It's one of the first things I disable, growing up I loved the loading screens on the Commodore 64, Spectrum XZ, Atari, DOS, etc...

 

[Jimminy]

I always do a powercfg -h off command.

But do all you guys also disable it on laptops? Hibernate sort of make sense for laptops and tablets.

 

[mikeymikec]

I always do a powercfg -h off command.

But do all you guys also disable it on laptops? Hibernate sort of make sense for laptops and tablets.

You realise that also kills hybrid sleep, being a safeguard for sleep mode whereby the contents of RAM are saved to disk first? If the computer loses power during sleep mode, the contents of RAM can be loaded from disk to recover the Windows session.

 

[tcsenter]

I don't think I've ever switched off Fast Boot in the BIOS. In Windows, definitely (unless it's a HDD booter). Are there any definite advantages of switching off Fast Boot in the BIOS?

Only if you should ever want to invoke the startup menu or enter UEFI SETUP before the OS loads. In a lot of systems with fast boot enabled in BIOS, it is hella difficult to get into these options using the keystroke before the BIOS begins loading the OS. You can get into UEFI setup from within Windows by restarting into the Startup Recovery Mode environment but sometimes you might not be able get into Windows either.

 

[WilliamM2]

You realise that also kills hybrid sleep, being a safeguard for sleep mode whereby the contents of RAM are saved to disk first? If the computer loses power during sleep mode, the contents of RAM can be loaded from disk to recover the Windows session.

I have battery backups. Not a concern. When I turn my PC off, I want it off.
But I've never had the PC turn itself back on, even before disabling it.

 

[mikeymikec]

nvm

 

[Brainonska511]

Never had a problem with fast boot and not being able to get into the BIOS: I use it on 3 computers here - a B660 alder lake machine, an H170 Skylake build, and a B450 5600X build. The one time I can think of a related issue was a BIOS that had a setting for ultra fast boot, and that one was an oopsies I quickly undid.

As for the network adapter waking the computer, I wouldn't have thought to look through Windows settings for something that was happening from an "off" state. Maybe I'd only look in that direction after exhausting the BIOS stuff.

 

[Hans Gruber]

Never had a problem with fast boot and not being able to get into the BIOS: I use it on 3 computers here - a B660 alder lake machine, an H170 Skylake build, and a B450 5600X build. The one time I can think of a related issue was a BIOS that had a setting for ultra fast boot, and that one was an oopsies I quickly undid.

As for the network adapter waking the computer, I wouldn't have thought to look through Windows settings for something that was happening from an "off" state. Maybe I'd only look in that direction after exhausting the BIOS stuff.

With fast boot enabled. You may find yourself hitting the del key or F2 key over and over when booting to get into the bios menu. Not a big deal for some but annoying for others.

 

[Brainonska511]

With fast boot enabled. You may find yourself hitting the del key or F2 key over and over when booting to get into the bios menu. Not a big deal for some but annoying for others.

Maybe it depends on the system. I don't have any problems getting into the BIOS with the delete key on any of the systems I listed (Gigabyte and MSI boards). But I can see how it can be an issue if the system's fast boot behaves more like the ultra fast setting I noted I hit one time.

 

[mikeymikec]

Maybe it depends on the system. I don't have any problems getting into the BIOS with the delete key on any of the systems I listed (Gigabyte and MSI boards). But I can see how it can be an issue if the system's fast boot behaves more like the ultra fast setting I noted I hit one time.

Ditto Asus boards. I wait for my trackball light to come on (or say a keyboard flash on other systems) and immediately start pressing Delete. OEM PCs are often a pain though.

 

[tcsenter]

I've had some that would not accept input from two different USB keyboards. I switched to PS/2 and worked immediately. Disable Fast Boot in BIOS and both USB keyboards worked. More than one system or mobo, at least thrice times.

I really prefer to have that option in BIOS that offers that Pre-Boot Delay time for inputting keystrokes, where you can choose 0, 5, 10, seconds etc though I always scoff at the choices (e.g. I would settle for a 2 or 3 second option, but it doesn't offer them). Some systems and mobos don't even offer that. I have a Gigabyte Z390 Designare that doesn't offer this in BIOS. Only Fast Boot on/off and getting into BIOS is PITA, I always miss it the first time even with Fast Boot off.

 

[mikeymikec]

It just occurred to me that one change I've made for over a decade of my builds (Asus boards, almost always) is to disable the BIOS logo (so I get the standard text BIOS screen that tells you a bit about what's being detected), which in turn changes the BIOS screen timer from (I think) 3 seconds to 5 (I'm sure about this figure).

 

[tcsenter]

It just occurred to me that one change I've made for over a decade of my builds (Asus boards, almost always) is to disable the BIOS logo (so I get the standard text BIOS screen that tells you a bit about what's being detected), which in turn changes the BIOS screen timer from (I think) 3 seconds to 5 (I'm sure about this figure).

Yes, that can have an influence on the time delay allotted, too!