Windows 2000 Boot Speed

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RyboFlavin

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At work I received a new Dell 1.9 GHz with 256 MB of Rambus memory running Windows 2000 Professional. I noticed that the boot speed is extremely quick on this machine, much faster than my Athlon XP 2000+ at home. I want to find out if Dell has tweaked something in Windows 2000 to make it boot very fast. For example:

-Press Power button
-Black Win 2k screen with white bars goes by at normal speed
-When the Windows 2000 Logo Screen with the blue moving bar first appears, the blue bar is at 90% complete. The Windows 2000 login screen appears almost immediately after that. I have never seen this screen run by so quickly on any computer that I have ever installed Windows 2000 Professional on. Typically, the blue bar starts at about 50% complete and then takes about 10 seconds to finish before it goes to the login screen. This machine only takes about 1 or 2 seconds before the login screen appears.

I am sure that Dell has tweaked something in Win 2k to make it boot at Win XP speeds, but I am not sure what it could be. Does anyone have any ideas? I don't think this has anything to do with programs that are located in Startup or in the Registry Run areas because they do not load until you have logged in.

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Rkonster

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There are many factors that affect boot speed. For one, the dell BIOS startup is VERY fast when compared to other boards. Also, I have noticed that a lot of the AMD boards have RAID on them. This slows down boot times because the OS needs to initialize the controller. I have the same issue with my scsi card. The system boots much slower than a comparable system without it, and removing the card speeds up my boot times. I'm not sure what dell could have done to considerable speed up boot times, other than their quick BIOS.
 
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RyboFlavin

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My AMD board does not have RAID and my AMD BIOS actually processes faster than my Dell at work. I am referring to the speed that Windows 2000 itself loads. There are no SCSI devices in either my work PC or my home PC.
 
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EHobaX

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I had the exact same opposite with XP. :)

When I first installed it, it seemed to take forever to boot.
I didn't know if it was my hardware or if I fubar'd the install.
However, after a few more reboots on the course of the week,
the boot speed dramatically increased. I read there is some sort
of catalouging or indexing service w/in XP, so I'm thinking that
may have caused the speed increase.

Oh well. It works good now. Just my $.02.
 
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