Running Win2k.....What is your average boot time?

[thereds]

That is till you hit the login window. I got a little less than a minute yesterday as boot time and this is running an AMD 1600 1.4 ghz w/ 512MB Ram.

My damn master HDD is slowing down the boot process and I know it.

Whats your config and average boot time?

I wanna know.

 

[Migroo]

Athlon XP 1500+ (1.33 ghz) / 512 DDR

i dunno, about 30 seconds until login screen? I havent got the fasted HD either. its 5400 rpm

 

[StageLeft]

I'd guess up to 3 min until it's totally done. Celeron 1000, 448 ram, but I have an ancient 5,400 HD and that's definitely the bottleneck.

 

[CraigRT]

less tha 1 minute before it's completely done at desktop

prob. 45 seconds from power switch

specs: Win2K SP2 - TBird 1333@1500, Maxtor 30GB Diamondmax 60 7200 RPM, 512MB CAS2 Crucial PC133, MSI K7T Turbo Limited.

all in all, I am happy with my systems boot time
altho i have only ever seen it a very few times... (on 24-7)

 

[royaldank]

I've got a 500Mhz Pentium ? laptop and my boot time is around 3 minutes...takes forever. Therefore, I generally leave it on stand by and only reboot a couple times a week.

 

[notfred]

You make the assumption that I turn my computer off and therefore would need to boot it again. I don't remeber how long it takes to boot, I rarely do it.

 

[MichaelD]

Wow. Don't assume anything; Notfred gets offended!

From the moment I hit the power button, to the W2K Login Screen is about two minutes. I boot from a RAID 0 array, so that takes a moment to initialize and I also have an PCI IDE controller card that has to boot as well.

Heheh, then after I login, NAV has to initialize as well as the AutoShutDown software for my UPS. The whole process takes about three minutes total. If my case didn't sound like a hovercraft I'd leave it on 24/7, but my PCs are in my bedroom. Too noisy., so they get shut off most of the time.

 

[thereds]

people?

 

[Bluga]

Windows 2000 Advanced Server on Dual P4 Xenon 1.7GHz with Active Directory: 3 min.

 

[RossMAN]

I haven't timed my w2k bootup but it's noticeable slower than ME but it's worth it becuase of how stable it is.

 

[vtqanh]

Win2k Pro. : 1 minute. (to be exact: 1 minute and 3 seconds the last time I timed it)

 

[gopunk]

it takes longer than other os's, don't worry, it's normal.

 

[Carbo]

Two minutes from start to finish, even with a freshly formatted and installed OS, and nothing else yet installed. P3/500, 384MB RAM, IBM DestStar 75GXP, 46G, 7200rpm hard drive.

 

[Jingoro]

about 4 minutes on my AMD 850 w/512mb ram. Most of that time is because of my SCSI setup, though...

 

[Sir Fredrick]

I haven't restarted my computer in 47 days, 3 hours and 52 minutes (and that was when I had to turn it off so I could move it), so damned if I know how long it takes to start up...

 

[Triggerhappy007]

Running ME, not 2K.

On button til desktop, 25 secs.
On button til no more hourglass on mouse pointer, 30 secs.

Athlon XP 1.53GHz
MSI KT266 pro
256MB Crucial
40GB 7200rpm Maxtor
16X DVD
32MB DDR Geforce2 GTS-V
...etc.
Complete system built for $700

 

[rommel]

i think the final release of service pack 3 will help ...i ran the beta sp3 and it reduced the boot time alot...mine was really slow...have a scsi raid controller and pcmcia host adapter for wireless broadband that just take forever to load....but sp3 help it out

 

[Davegod75]

where did you get sp3???

 

[thereds]

good question.

also any good deals on 21" or 19" monitors?

 

[Davegod75]

<< good question.

also any good deals on 21" or 19" monitors? >>



i'm guessing you posted in the wrong forum????

 

[Geekbabe]

Probably over 1 minute while network connections and such are established... lol but averaged out over a 4 month uptime
my boot time is pretty insignificant

 

[LAUST]

You can make your 2K boot faster Pre - Circus Pack 3, find a machine with windows XP and copy yhe NTLDR file then replace it on your 2K machine, my work PC is a slow dog, real slow, but after replacing the NTLDR from XP it litterally boots about 10 seconds faster

 

[thereds]

i'm guessing you posted in the wrong forum????

No. Just thought I'd ask.

 

[rommel]

mmm...cant remember trhe site now...was a link through warp2search icronite.com maybe.....but it was a beta leak...only suppose to be for registered 'testers'....i think ms had em pull it