New Intel RST Driver Released - BETA

[Old Hippie]

7.2 seconds from push of the power button to desktop? Highly doubt that. Even 15 seconds is doubtful.

I've seen some "stripped-down" versions of W7 that could probably do it but I need the programs I use and a 30sec. boot time is very fast in 99% of most everybody's book. 🙂

 

[Burner27]

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.

From Standby or Hibernation?

 

[Makaveli]

7.2 seconds from push of the power button to desktop? Highly doubt that. Even 15 seconds is doubtful.

I have no idea how flamenko is doing it he has some secret sauce over there 🙂. Unless its a laptop or something i've yet to see any X58 board boot to desktop from power on in 20 seconds or below.

I have seen users on other chipsets with faster boots like AMD boards.

Even if I disabled all external controllers and disable the USB scan for devices on post I still can't get close to that.

I've done 45 seconds from post Beep to desktop, 30 second of that is all post.

 

[Old Hippie]

I have seen users on other chipsets with faster boots like AMD boards.

AMD's finally got something right? 🙂

 

[Makaveli]

lol I sure they would switch having boards that boot up faster for the performance crown and 90% of the market.

 

[taltamir]

guys, its all about mobo selection (firmware) and BIOS configuration... My current mobo takes over a minute to start loading windows. I have had mobos that, with specific configuration, started loading windows within a few seconds.
Its not that difficult. Some mobos can concurrently poll multiple IDE chanels while others do them one by one, most mobos take longer for using AHCI, and if they have a secondary controller, longer load.

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.

The point at which windows 7 loading bar pops up, thats when it just accessed your HDD or SSD...
You can physically unplug your HDD/SSD (having none in the system) and it will load up identically up that point. Only instead of the win7 loading bar it will say "boot disk not found" in white text on black background.

POST is the first part of the thing, it goes on until you hear one beep. After wards you have just various bios stuff loading up until you get the win7 logo, the win7 logo means you started loading the OS from the hard drive or SSD.

 

[Voo]

I've seen some "stripped-down" versions of W7 that could probably do it but I need the programs I use and a 30sec. boot time is very fast in 99% of most everybody's book. 🙂

If you replace W7 with a minimal linux kernel, have a MB with that fancy extra fast bootup stuff (no idea how it was called ~) and don't have to init unnecessary devices I could see that.

 

[tweakboy]

Glad to see even though its beta its a good RST driver.