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flamenko

flamenko

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Not available on the US/Canada site yet but here ya go... Version 10.

http://www.station-drivers.com/page/intel raid.htm

Another site claimed their boot times increased and I never believed them so checked it out on my system below which consistently boots around 16-17 seconds. Not no more... It is 12-13 consistently since the install. Maybe its just me but Bootimer is giving me better boot times.

EDIT: Beta version from a French site but posts are also claiming instant increases in RAID0 performance scores
 
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Old Hippie

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I've tried the 10.0.0.1026 version awhile back but it didn't increase any speeds and some were having trouble with it so I went back to ver. 9.

I just installed the newest and I still don't see any improvements.

For all I know these are still Beta.
 
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It should be for anyone who has drives attached to Intel chipsets.
 
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Is there any claim (expectation) of faster boot times when using non-RAID, AHCI configuration? I'm wondering if it's worth trying on my non-RAID configuration.
 
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I havent upgraded from the last BETA (43) but I haven't had any problem whatsoever and haven't observed any large and glaring differences in my system. There are several swearing that it does wonder for GC in RAID systems though.
 
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flamenko said:
A little bird told me that Intel does not publish WHQL releases on the site, at least not immediately.
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Well, my link shows v9 drivers from intel website.
But yes, it would be intel like to delay a whole bunch before posting it to their own website, first letting OEMs have it. They never did seem to take drivers seriously.

Speaking of, their lack of seriousness with drivers means I am waiting before upgrading to latest version... I will let others catch the early problems.
But thanks for the link flamenko, that website looks like a nice source for leaked releases.
 
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I know with some venders, a delayed anoucement is a way to mitigate the load on their servers. By not advertising an update, word trickles out, and download requests trickle in. When requests taper off, they anounce the update, so there's less chance the the server will crash.

I'm with taltamir though, and not eager to be part of the R&D. v.1014 is working just fine for me.
 
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Wtf. My boot time is 57 seconds. Are you using a motherboard specifically designed to give fast boot times?

My specs:

E8400 @ 3.5Ghz
Asus rampage mobo x48 chipset
4gb ram
60gb vertex 2 ssd
evga 8800gts gpu

How can your computer boot in less than 15 seconds? That's insane..

Is part of the reason because I'm on a dual core cpu and mobo that is a couple of years old?

Edit: Just changed number of processors to startup with to 2 and boot time is now 50 seconds... Quick boot is enabled in bios.
 
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My average boot on both systems is about 15 seconds each.

You need to take a look at several factors to find out why its taking so long...

1. Was it a fresh install or clone?
2. Do programs that you have installed automatically load their files even when not in use?
3. Check your startup folder. Delete all that doesn not need to load at boot. This is huge.
4. Check what virus program you have installed. Some take very long to go resident. MSE is the quickest and uses very little resources.
5. Check out the Optimization Guides. A single optimization may not result in much but when you factor in many, it counts.
6. Check your Services folder and set the start to manual if not used by you. There are lots of sites that can help with this.
7. Turn off all automatic update programs.

Thats a start for now... Quite frankly, any fresh installation will start around the 20 second mark so consider this.
 
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15 seconds is from the push of the button to the desktop being available (internet confirmed). I have done it as fast as 7.2 actually but had to do some playing around to get that.
 
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flamenko said:
15 seconds is from the push of the button to the desktop being available (internet confirmed). I have done it as fast as 7.2 actually but had to do some playing around to get that.
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What motherboard / BIOS tweaks are you using? Once I hit the Windows loading screen, things are blazing fast from there. The slowest (~15-20 seconds) is waiting for the BIOS to detect hard drives and other devices. Ugh.
 
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The only tweaks I use are those commonly spoken of in Windows 7 and SSD Optimization Guides. To add to that, I ensure startup programs are to a minimum (5) and also tweak services. I use MSE for the virus program as it is the quickest loading.

To me, it all starts with a fresh install and then careully setting the system up with the proper optimizations and I also make sure there are no active update programs including Windows.
 
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The new v10 Intel WHQL driver benches around 1-2% slower than the v9.6 does on a 4 x 256GB C300 Win7 software stripe set on every test using CrystalDiskmark, ASSSD, and ATTO. Haven't tried a single drive, non-RAID yet.

Not a big deal if this driver offers something the old one doesn't, but I haven't figured out yet if it is simply slower with no other benefit. Will try a single disk later. Maybe they optimized it for non-RAID disks.
 
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flamenko said:
My average boot on both systems is about 15 seconds each.

You need to take a look at several factors to find out why its taking so long...

1. Was it a fresh install or clone?
2. Do programs that you have installed automatically load their files even when not in use?
3. Check your startup folder. Delete all that doesn not need to load at boot. This is huge.
4. Check what virus program you have installed. Some take very long to go resident. MSE is the quickest and uses very little resources.
5. Check out the Optimization Guides. A single optimization may not result in much but when you factor in many, it counts.
6. Check your Services folder and set the start to manual if not used by you. There are lots of sites that can help with this.
7. Turn off all automatic update programs.

Thats a start for now... Quite frankly, any fresh installation will start around the 20 second mark so consider this.
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Hmmm. The majority of the boot time of my pc is the black screen and white text (not sure what that's called!), probably about 40 seconds. As soon as the windows 7 loading bar pops up it's almost instant. In answer to your questions:

1. Fresh install on ssd.
2. I've taken off everything uneeded in msconfig.
3. Very few progs in startup.
4. I use AVG.
5. I've had a look online, not on the forums though.
6. I'll check this but I'm pretty sure I've done it.
7. Okay I'll do that, but nothing comes to mind except AVG and Winamp, which doesn't startup on boot.

I'm thinking I have a slow booting motherboard, it's an X48 chipset.

As CurseTheSky said, a lot of time seems to be spent detected hard drives, etc.

I've never seen a computer boot up in 20 seconds!

Jez
 
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I've never seen a computer boot up in 20 seconds!
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Me neither.

Mine takes @ 30 secs. to the Login screen but I have other programs starting.

This is with 2 X Intel G2 80GB SSDs in RAID0 on an X58 MB.
 
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flamenko said:
15 seconds is from the push of the button to the desktop being available (internet confirmed). I have done it as fast as 7.2 actually but had to do some playing around to get that.
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7.2 seconds from push of the power button to desktop? Highly doubt that. Even 15 seconds is doubtful.
 
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