Should it take over 5 mins to boot up?

[glen]

Over 5 mins here.
I think DAP and MSmessanger get stuck in start up.

 

[nycxandy]

Definitely not, unless you have an old computer.

 

[GhettoFob]

no

 

[waggy]

sure if you are booting up a 486!

 

sounds like you need another 16mb of ram on that ol 486

 

[waggy]

Originally posted by: jntdesign
sounds like you need another 16mb of ram on that ol 486

I just happen to have 16mb (maybe 32) that would work in a 486 sitting in my desk drawer! heh

 

[Shawn]

hell no

 

[glen]

Computer:
Operating System Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition
OS Service Pack Service Pack 2
Internet Explorer 6.0.2900.2180
DirectX 4.09.00.0904 (DirectX 9.0)
Computer Name GLEN (Glen's Room)
User Name Owner

Motherboard:
CPU Type AMD Athlon XP-A, 2100 MHz (12.5 x 168) 2800+
Motherboard Name Epox EP-8RDA+ / FIC AU11 Chameleon (6 PCI, 1 AGP, 3 DIMM, Audio, LAN)
Motherboard Chipset nVIDIA nForce2 Ultra 400
System Memory 1024 MB (DDR SDRAM)
BIOS Type Award (03/05/03)
Display:
Video Adapter NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4200 (128 MB)
3D Accelerator nVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4200
Monitor Gateway Vivitron 1100 [21" CRT]

Multimedia:
Audio Adapter Creative EMU10K2 Audigy Audio Processor
Audio Adapter nVIDIA MCP2 - Audio Codec Interface
Audio Adapter nVIDIA MCP2 - Audio Processing Unit (Dolby Digital)

Storage:
IDE Controller NVIDIA nForce 2 ATA Controller (v2.5)
SCSI/RAID Controller D347PRT SCSI Controller
SCSI/RAID Controller HPT302 UDMA/ATA133 Controller
Disk Drive WDC WD307AA-00BAA0 (28 GB, IDE)
Disk Drive ST312002 2A SCSI Disk Device (120 GB, 7200 RPM, Serial-ATA/150)
Disk Drive ST360021 A SCSI Disk Device (60 GB, 7200 RPM, Ultra-ATA/100)
Optical Drive Generic DVD-ROM SCSI CdRom Device
Optical Drive NU DVDRW DDW-082 (DVD+RW:8x/4x, DVD-RW:8x/4x, DVD-ROM:12x, CD:40x/24x/40x DVD+RW/DVD-RW)

 

[TheLonelyPhoenix]

Spyware!!!!!

Do a reformat. I take about 30 seconds to hit Windows from the time I press my power button.

 

Originally posted by: waggy

Originally posted by: jntdesign
sounds like you need another 16mb of ram on that ol 486

I just happen to have 16mb (maybe 32) that would work in a 486 sitting in my desk drawer! heh

i have one on my keychain!

 

[n0cmonkey]

Wrong forum.

 

[Anubis]

my comp takes less then a min to hit windows, and then takes about 2 min for windows to load all my stuff, mainily because i have 300GB of HDs that are on a PCI IDE card and it takes a while to get the volume info from them

when i didnt use them i coudl push power and be on AT in less then 3 min

 

[glen]

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey
Wrong forum.

I know, but I thought this better than cross posting, which I have done now.

 

[Whisper]

My computer seems to take slightly less than a minute to go from power on to everything loaded in windows. So I'd venture another vote for "no."

 

[glen]

Originally posted by: Anubis
my comp takes less then a min to hit windows, and then takes about 2 min for windows to load all my stuff, mainily because i have 300GB of HDs that are on a PCI IDE card and it takes a while to get the volume info from them

when i didnt use them i coudl push power and be on AT in less then 3 min

Sounds like I am not too far out of line, and I bet I can save some more time if I disable DAP.

 

[Mill]

My laptop takes about 2 minutes, but my new box hits windows and I can surf within 20 seconds.

 

[glen]

Originally posted by: Mill
My laptop takes about 2 minutes, but my new box hits windows and I can surf within 20 seconds.

Nice!
What is the secrect?

 

[So]

Originally posted by: glen

Originally posted by: Anubis
my comp takes less then a min to hit windows, and then takes about 2 min for windows to load all my stuff, mainily because i have 300GB of HDs that are on a PCI IDE card and it takes a while to get the volume info from them

when i didnt use them i coudl push power and be on AT in less then 3 min

Sounds like I am not too far out of line, and I bet I can save some more time if I disable DAP.

No, I have 420Gb of harddrive space and I go from turn on to desktop in <2 mins, porbably <1. On my old athlon 1700+ it was still <4mins.

 

[Anubis]

Originally posted by: So

Originally posted by: glen

Originally posted by: Anubis
my comp takes less then a min to hit windows, and then takes about 2 min for windows to load all my stuff, mainily because i have 300GB of HDs that are on a PCI IDE card and it takes a while to get the volume info from them

when i didnt use them i coudl push power and be on AT in less then 3 min

Sounds like I am not too far out of line, and I bet I can save some more time if I disable DAP.

No, I have 420Gb of harddrive space and I go from turn on to desktop in <2 mins, porbably <1. On my old athlon 1700+ it was still <4mins.

is it on the mother board or a PCI IDE Card? i ahve 200GB on the mobo and 300GB on the Card with nothing on teh card my boot time is literally cut in 1/2

 

[ed21x]

enabling quick boot on your motherboard so it doesn't scan your drives would speed things up quite a bit... as well as mizing up some nextowrk settings around, and getting rid of a bunch of background programs as many here have mentioned.

 

[glen]

Originally posted by: ed21x
enabling quick boot on your motherboard so it doesn't scan your drives would speed things up quite a bit... as well as mizing up some nextowrk settings around, and getting rid of a bunch of background programs as many here have mentioned.

Cool, where or how does one enable "quick boot?"

 

[AlienCraft]

My 450 MEGAHERTZ P3 takes about 45 seconds.

 

[Zee]

download tweaknow and see what's loading up at startup. Or msconfig. or whatever.

 

[Bassyhead]

takes a lot less than 5 minutes to boot on my xp 1800+.

 

[C'DaleRider]

Heck, I've got an onld Celeron 500mHz system with 32MB of RAM that boots to Win98 under 2 minutes.......very slow, I know, but with only 32MB of memory, what can you expect.

My P4 system takes around 2 minutes, but that includes a cursory virus scan by Norton on bootup.