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

[OneOfTheseDays]

Ok title says all, list system specs and all. Boot up time from when windows splash screen first pops up and until all programs in windows have loaded in startup menu.

 

[nEoTeChMaN]

BRB

 

[Adul]

not fast enough 24 seconds

 

[nEoTeChMaN]

Ok, I'm back.

18 seconds. Not bad.

 

[BowDown]

I'm not even going to compete .

I have dual-monitors and Win2k Pro. After I get my 15k SCSI HD I'll get back to ya.

 

[The Stigenator]

I wouldnt even post mine here..damn "MSQSVR32" keeps crashing 98SE on boot...

 

[WaaZzuupp]

24 seconds not fast enought????????
wowi think mine takes like 45sec
have not timed it thoug

 

[mrsmith]

my new system is like 30 secs.. once everything is finished and running good ill try to tweak it I guess but it doesn't really bother me to wait a few seconds

 

[nEoTeChMaN]

Turn the 'floppy drive seek' off in the BIOS helps a lot.

 

[Phuz]

My PROMISE controller hangs for like 1 minute.

 

[ltk007]

25-30s I can't count that well.

 

[bighurtx82]

35 seconds

 

[kmike75]

24 seconds...

k6-2 500
gigabyte GA5AX
128mgb PC-100 generic
Seagate 4.3 gig hd
Voodoo 3 2000 pci
Creative Blaster
Creative 52x CD ROM
+ something I won at the county fair...

 

[AdamK47]

I can boot into Windows ME from after pushing the power button in about 13 seconds. It would be about 7 or 8 seconds, but my FastTrack66 controller takes some time to boot.

Edit: Oh, I didn't see you ask "After the Windows splash screen first shows".... in that case... 5 seconds. Really! Windows ME is that fast at booting.

 

[slicksilver]

around 30-35 secs....depends on what I have in the startup group......

Raj

 

[BigToque]

1*10^-15 ns

 

[oleg]

Hehe, had to count that.

19 seconds exactly,

Am on a IBM 75GXP 7200 RPM disk, running on a PIII 1GHZ@1120 on 320MB MUSHKIN HP memory at CAS2 (128x2, 64x1)

 

[odog]

bout 20 seconds... i'd be less if i had W2K set to not ask for a password...

 

[Mr.IncrediblyBored]

45-60 seconds

 

[jinsonxu]

12 seconds for Windows ME.

 

[AlphaIVT]

Whoa! you guys must be kidding, It takes me about a minute to boot mines. The last issue of MaxPC i saw (October 99) had PCs booting up in 1:35. Are you all using WinME? is that FastBoot feature that good?

 

[|TOAST|]

Takes me forever (about 2-3 mins) to boot this crap up probably because I boot mice manager and norton Antivirus2000 and RC5 and ICQ and a bot program under WIN2K. Config:
Soyo 6aba+iv
p3 500@750
256MB 150MB HSDRAM
ASUS Geforce ddr v6800
Quantum 20.5gb KX (POS)
on board HPT366 ATA 66 controller (seems to hang for about 1 year before finding ZIP drive... BTW 4 drives all master on ATA33 or ATA66)

 

[hans007]

takes me 25-30 seconds on my system in win2k.

 

[LiekOMG]

15-17 seconds or so. Although thats directly related to winME. If i was on 98, it takes like 45 sec to get my DSL modem's connection up.

 

[Dameon]

remember Alpha, that he is counting AFTER the windows screen appears. Most of the counts I have seen are counting from power on, including all post memory checks, device scanning, SCSI bios scan, ATA 66 / 100 bios Scan.... etc. etc.