POLL!! How Fast Does Your Computer Boot up???

[hungrypete]

17 seconds to windows desktop, another 5 seconds for the tray.
--Asus A7V, Duron 650, 128mb Siemens PC100@133 3-3-3, Asus V7100 Pure 32mb, 17GB 5400rpm IBM crapola HDD, Windows ME build 3000.
I need a new HDD!
<EDIT> this is from power on to desktop.....

 

[noxipoo]

my w2k pro takes like 40 secs or something to boot. my winME (with barely anything installed) takes no more than 10. thats pretty fast considering how old my puter is

 

[thorin]

My install of w98SE from spash to full load. Takes ~15sec (I auto logon, and start netdetect and dnetc that's all). My parents 95C splash to full load in ~13sec (auto logon, and no startup items).

Thorin

 

[AdamK47]

I also have all of this stuff to load into my system tray. heh

 

[Mem]

Mine takes about 80 seconds with 15 startup icons in taskbar on bottom right,OOps this is from when I switch it on ,have to do a retime for splash screen.

900mhz T-bird
MSI-K7T PRO
128mb Crucial
Sparkle Geforce2 MX
IBM 18gb 7200rpm ATA-66
Logitech cordless wheelmouse
Diamond SupraExpress 56 i V PRO modem
SBlive 1024 value
Win 98 0s1

 

[Rigoletto]

I just do not believe this! WinME sounds incredible!
I thought 24 seconds for Win2000 hibernated restore was pretty good too.
I think a lot of you are cheating.
BTW the more RAM you have the longer it takes to check it.

 

[Rigoletto]

sorry mistook the question! I don't count from the splash screen.

 

[AMB]

It takes about 35 secs:

Specks are on my web-site, or on my sig

 

[thorin]

Mem
&quot;Mine takes about 80 seconds with 15 startup icons in taskbar on bottom right,&quot;

Why so many Startup items? Going for a record?

Thorin

 

[Zucchini]

This is kind of pointless.. bootup time increases with the number of cards and stuff in the system. I've timed my system and it just gets slower the more i shove in. With a tv card/scsi/sound/network/modem, 3 harddrives, 2 optical. 33seconds.

 

[jinsonxu]

Hibernate is actually slower than booting up for me. Besides, it has been making my system unstable recently. I'm gonna have to do another format soon, once i get a new harddisk, that is.

 

[Yza]

THought i was the only nut that timed my startup!
My sustained record was 16 secs, from post.!! Now since i added another Harddrive, dsl modem, and NIC.. its more like 1min this is in win98 btw.

 

[ElFenix]

how about i have a computer that never restarts because it never crashes and i never turn it off? it hasn't been restarted since 8/14... and its a windows box... hey thats a month! lets check the other box... and it hasn't been restarted since 8/15, so a month there too.

 

[Maverick2002]

27.3 seconds (includes v-card memory scan, ram scan, norton start up scan

 

[Syborg1211]

wow, i thought my computer booted up slowly, from the second i turn the power on, it takes 29 seconds and after detecting the video card and the cpu and memory, but when the screen comes up to the first password screen, it takes like <15 seconds

 

[Syborg1211]

forgot to mention that is with windows 98 first edition, i am going to ME this weekend, will repost then

 

[TaylorD]

13 seconds

 

[troubledshooter]

Are you guys counting in 5-second-intervals? Mine takes 2:10 from power and 2:10-:39 from splash screen. It just sits 50% of the way through splash for about 1:20 of that. No idea why. I've seen that before on win2k prof though...

 

[Syborg1211]

my computer used to tkae like 5 minutes to boot, but then i took a bunch of things out of my startup and only left the things which i needed. That cut my boot time in half or more, and then i got a new processor and it was light speed

 

[Zucchini]

If you have network settings on auto it might be looking around for a while

 

[troubledshooter]

DHCP enabled On top of that it is sharing an IRQ with my sound card. I ought to move it to another slot....maybe that would speed things up. Any thoughts on the hanging with the loading bar 50% across?

thanks

 

[PliotronX]

18 seconds.. and that's with Ethernet and SCSI! I love WinME

 

[Coolie]

58 Seconds, but Motherboard Monitor added about 10 seconds.
Windows 2000 Professional SP-1
Abit BM6
Celeron 566@876
256MB PC-100
30GB Maxtor 7200RPM ATA/100
Promise Ultra ATA/100 controller
SMC 10/100 NIC
ATI All-in-Wonder128 AGP
SB PCI128
Cable Modem
Linksys Router
Linksys 5-port switch

 

[Varborta]

Before I post up my # I need to clarify a few things and if you think something
is wrong tell me.
First I have install the PCAnywhere 8.0 and it does run at the start-up
and I also use creative soundblaster which runs long at the start-up
I have VIA 2.25a 4-in-1
latest patch 1.4 release for msi m/b
win98se

Mine is 105 seconds

 

[ParasiticFly]

27 seconds.

on a crappy dell 300 with 98SE

Har guess its kinda fast for a peice of sh!t computer.