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Skylake Windows 10 Boot time

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phillyman36

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If you are running Windows 10(64) with a Skylake mobo and cpu can you tell me how long it takes to boot to the desktop when you hit the power button?

I am getting about 25ish seconds uefi boot
My Os drive is on a Samsung 850 pro.
 
phillyman36 said:
If you are running Windows 10(64) with a Skylake mobo and cpu can you tell me how long it takes to boot to the desktop when you hit the power button?

I am getting about 25ish seconds uefi boot
My Os drive is on a Samsung 850 pro.
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It takes 20 seconds for me to even see the splash screen on my ASUS X-99 Deluxe from a cold boot. Last time I'm ever buying an ASUS motherboard. Seems like this is an issue with the latest motherboards where they take a lot of time to initialize.

My Alienware 18 laptops takes like 5 seconds to get to the desktop from a cold boot.
 
Skylake is brand new. Nation to nation, pretesting is a thing of the past. In field testing of imature products is the way of the future.

With bios updates, this will probably be improved.

I have dealt with this starting with the VIA KT333 based boards on up to now. Always the same result. Lot sof bugs at first, with improvements coming approx 8months to a year later.
 
25s is slow, I have Win 10 on my Samsung 850 in my i5 3550 system and it boots from POST in less than 10 seconds (like 6 seconds), something's holding it back in BIOS.

Oh with Asus boards, look for fast boot but never set it to ultra fast or you'll never be able to get ino BIOS when you need to and will have to rest CMOS. And look for an option to turn off splash screen.
 
berryracer said:
It takes 20 seconds for me to even see the splash screen on my ASUS X-99 Deluxe from a cold boot. Last time I'm ever buying an ASUS motherboard. Seems like this is an issue with the latest motherboards where they take a lot of time to initialize.

My Alienware 18 laptops takes like 5 seconds to get to the desktop from a cold boot.
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My ASUS cold boots super fast, as expected. Nothing like a one-off example to counter another.
 
My windows 8 has a cold boot time of 5 seconds now using an 840 evo, asus motherboard.dont plan on using windows 10 on it yet.
 
berryracer said:
It takes 20 seconds for me to even see the splash screen on my ASUS X-99 Deluxe from a cold boot. Last time I'm ever buying an ASUS motherboard. Seems like this is an issue with the latest motherboards where they take a lot of time to initialize.

My Alienware 18 laptops takes like 5 seconds to get to the desktop from a cold boot.
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I thought you had already determined that this is due to your Intel 750s? Has nothing to do with Asus themselves.
http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2443397&highlight=
 
Speaking of Intel SSD's, I'm using a laptop right now with a 40GB X25-M with Win 10 and at the push of the button from cold start to login is barely 5 seconds, it's mind blowing.
 
imaheadcase said:
People boot computers still? Mine turns off a few times a year during a power outage maybe.
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Some of us has power bills to pay, my two TV cable boxes (9W and 12-15W) contributes to $170/year. Think of what a PC idling at 30-45W would add yearly.
 
Somehow my CSM settings are

Boot Device control UEFI and Legacy OPROM
Boot from Network device Legacy only
Boot from storage devices legacy only
Boot from PCI-e.pci expansion devices legacy only

I should have left it to disabled. Is that why my boots are longer?
 
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Ketchup said:
I thought you had already determined that this is due to your Intel 750s? Has nothing to do with Asus themselves.
http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2443397&highlight=
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Oh the Intel SSD just adds even more time to the whole picture. But there is an initial lag of 20-25 seconds.

Fast Boot is enabled, CMS is disabled. Full UEFI. I don't understand why it's so slow. I read others also complaining about this. Seems to be like an issue with the ASUS motherboards and not the X-99 chipset itself.

I tried BIOS 1792 and the latest BIOS 1801 but no difference.

If someone can really help me fix this, I will offer them a small software reward of their choice at a reasonable price that is.

See these threads:

http://www.overclock.net/t/1510328/...-north-american-users-only/1120#post_22919801

http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/343136-x99-deluxe-boots-up-slow/

As we can see here from the Anandtech Review, horrible POST Times on the X-99 Platform:

http://www.anandtech.com/show/8557/...k-x99-ws-msi-x99s-sli-plus-intel-haswell-e/12
 
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My haswell Pc does that since I installed win10,but only once in a while,sometimes it boots very fast then othertimes it's like it is searching for something,it goes through uefi bios real fast then to a black screen where it stays and ponders what to do next.
 
TeknoBug said:
Some of us has power bills to pay, my two TV cable boxes (9W and 12-15W) contributes to $170/year. Think of what a PC idling at 30-45W would add yearly.
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Ridiculous. Your cable boxes at 24W combined for 24 hours a day all year round is about 30 bucks for me at 14 cents per kWhr. In order for those two cable boxes to cost you $170 a year at 24W non-stop your electric rate has to be 80 cents. I call shens.
 
SparkyJJO said:
Ridiculous. Your cable boxes at 24W combined for 24 hours a day all year round is about 30 bucks for me at 14 cents per kWhr. In order for those two cable boxes to cost you $170 a year at 24W non-stop your electric rate has to be 80 cents. I call shens.
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I agree - partially. He may be wrong about the wattage draw on those boxes. I've heard that they are closer to 150W, 24/7. Now that might cost $100+/yr.
 
SparkyJJO said:
Ridiculous. Your cable boxes at 24W combined for 24 hours a day all year round is about 30 bucks for me at 14 cents per kWhr. In order for those two cable boxes to cost you $170 a year at 24W non-stop your electric rate has to be 80 cents. I call shens.
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2 cents x 24 hours = 48 cents, x 30 days = $14.40 x 12 months = $172.80 in a year. My rates are $0.08/KWh for step 1 ($0.11 step 2), that's not including transfer and usage fees which is $0.17/day.
 
Not everybody pays the same electric rates so you can't base assumptions on your local utility rates. Where I am we have some of the highest rates around which accounts for very high electric bills each month.
 
TeknoBug said:
2 cents x 24 hours = 48 cents, x 30 days = $14.40 x 12 months = $172.80 in a year. My rates are $0.08/KWh for step 1 ($0.11 step 2), that's not including transfer and usage fees which is $0.17/day.
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You have cheaper rates than I do, so if your boxes are pulling 24W combined there is no way they cost that much per year.

Where is the 2 cents per hour coming from?

24 watts * 24 hours/day = 576 watt hours or 0.576 kWh/day

11 cents/kWh * 0.576 kWh/day = 6.336 cents/day

6.336 cents/day * 365 days/year = 2312.64 cents/year, or $23.13 a year.


You don't include transfer/usage fees in that since you pay that regardless of the cable boxes.

VirtualLarry is probably at least partially right about usage, maybe when running they are pulling more than 24W combined and that 24W is only at idle.
 
In terms of power savings. i5 661 to Skylake NUC as 24/7 HTPC will save me around 125-150$ a year at 0.35-0.40$ or so per Kw/h. And thats pretty much assuming the i5 661 idles all the time.
 
SparkyJJO said:
You have cheaper rates than I do, so if your boxes are pulling 24W combined there is no way they cost that much per year.

Where is the 2 cents per hour coming from?

24 watts * 24 hours/day = 576 watt hours or 0.576 kWh/day

11 cents/kWh * 0.576 kWh/day = 6.336 cents/day

6.336 cents/day * 365 days/year = 2312.64 cents/year, or $23.13 a year.


You don't include transfer/usage fees in that since you pay that regardless of the cable boxes.

VirtualLarry is probably at least partially right about usage, maybe when running they are pulling more than 24W combined and that 24W is only at idle.
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^ that
 
I use the MSI X99S SLI Plus with a 5930K. Not Skylake. I have the dual bank UEFI feature. With UEFI 1.2 to 1.7 my boot times were 5-10 seconds.
MSI updated the UEFI to 1.8 adding Improved system stability when MSI Fast Boot is enabled, a lot of the problems were keyboard and mouse malfunctions.
Whether I choose Fast Boot or MSI Fast Boot the boot time is now stated to be 25 seconds. Restarts feel quicker than that, Windows timer doesn't agree.

My point is perhaps other newer motherboards have similar problems and need a slower boot time. Could the Fast Boot standard itself be bad?
 
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