Poll: What is your boot time?

[Aeolus]

How long does it take your PC to boot to either the Windows/Linux/Mac desktop login?

 

[wfbberzerker]

i'd check, but that would require me to (a) get a stopwatch and (b) restart my computer, both of which im too lazy to do. ill report later with any updates on this situation!

edit: anyone know of any software that would do both of these for you?

 

[Aeolus]

If all else fails you could just count in your head!

 

[bacillus]

can't vote as I don't have to login! :Q

 

[webley]

About 1 minute on a 1.1 GHz Thunderbird here and 2 minutes on a P3 500 MHz. (Win ME & 98)

 

[kelesh3]

i'm just guessing, but probably about 2 minutes.
i use win2k, plus i load alot of things at startup (ultramon, sysmeter2, secureCRT, hoverdesk, windowblinds, trillian, innoculateIT, and sometimes serv-U).

who cares about bootup times if you only boot up twice a month, a la win2k

 

[Quickfingerz]

for me? a darn long time because i'm using win2k...

 

[Aeolus]

How much ram do you have Quick? Win2k loads average for me with 256 Meg.

 

[cbuchach]

Yeah my bootup is quite slow. I use the A7V133 and have a RAID array. The promise loader has always taken a good while to identify the array then sits there for a few seconds after doing so. I wish there was a way to speed this process up. Any ideas? And I run Win2k and load a lot of software, so my boot times are long, oh well.

 

[Reel]

I am getting about 15 seconds to the W2k log in screen on my just put together Athlon 1.2Ghz with 256MB of 266Mhz RAM. On the other hand, my PII-266Mhz laptop with 192MB of RAM takes about 2 minutes (long enough to hit the bathroom and it will still be starting).

 

[BrunoPuntzJones]

34 seconds from cold boot to usable windows.
athlon classic 800
asus k7v
256 megs of ram
windows98 se

i hate long boot times.

 

[Jgtdragon]

Around 15 second booting into Windoes 98SE and 20 second booting into Windows 2000.

 

[urameatball]

about 5-6 minutes in win2K server.
dam active directory and all those other server stuffs.
I'm using 171MB of ram right after bootup, and after I open up outlook express, Internet Explorer, etc (the usual stuff). it's getting close to 200MB ram used up. sad thing is I only have 256MB ram.

 

[Degenerate]

2 min into win 98... Lost my Win2k HD. Any way, i thinkit spends about 1 min trying to find the network card. Why? i dunno.

 

[snidy]

I'm at about 40 seconds from cold start, and 20 from a restart

 

[OneOfTheseDays]

About 14 seconds on my emachine, and 21 seconds on my custom rig. I too hate long bootup times and i have nothing in my startup except driver stuff. The funny thing is my 633mhz celeron emachine boots up so damn fast compared to my custom rig.

 

[chuckieland]

less then 20 second

 

[Davegod75]

wow that's surprising that that many people are over 25 secs with computers these day's


my tbird 1.54Ghz on a Asus a7v133 is blazing fast on the boot up time.

 

[TripperJoe]

Cold boot:

1:00 to win2k login screen
1:30 to desktop

 

[pillage2001]

About 25-30 seconds.

 

[Jiggz]

1 minute and 35 seconds from the Video bios screen up the time the hourglass is gone. 1.1 Ghz @ 1.3Ghz, Win98 & 512 Mb Ram.

 

[AKDUDE1]

Im running in around 30 seconds. At one time I had it faster with some of the tweaks you can do, but I have not bothered to do them since my last format/install.

TBIRD at 1 gig, 150fsb.

 

[ArchAngel777]

25 seconds. From cold boot. WindowsME

1.1Ghz Athlon

 

[PochiePooh]

2 minutes. But I need to do a reinstall. Looking forward to it when my new Inspiron 8000 gets here.

 

[BlakkIce]

like 1:45 using win2k