Your windows xp boot time

[littlegohan]

mine is aobut 50seconds

note:the "boot time" is the time for the whole cold boot process

this means you record the time immdeiately after pushing the power on button and stop at the user login screen

looking foward to see you guys' results


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[E3Art]

wow, 50 sec. seem really high. What kind of computer do you have. i havent installed XP yet, im running ME with a AMD 1800+ and i can go from power up to usable desktop in about 20 sec or less, Ill have to time it tommorow.

 

[larciel]

about 1 minute

U160 scsi card

 

[Demonicon]

Mine seems about 20 seconds in XP to useable state.

 

[dionx]

mine is 35 secs exactly from a very cold boot (hasnt been on for hours). my rig is in my sig if you wanna compare specs.

 

[LanEvoVI]

50 seconds...just like you.

 

[SaturnX]

Mine is approximately 36 seconds.

--Mark

 

[DN]

Aprx. 15-20 seconds..

 

[ADTRiverside]

30 Sec.......PIII 866, 256 Ram..... 3Com Nic.......

 

[Saltin]

Microsoft released a file some time ago named Boot_vis.exe
It is geared toward optimizing your computer's (XP systems) boot time. If you have a lower to middle of the road system that takes over 30 seconds to boot, you will notice considerable gains. Do a search on their site. You won't be disappointed.

P4 1.5 256 RDRAM = 16 seconds

 

[wepopfresh]

It depends. In OSX it takes about 30-45 seconds for XP to boot, and in classic it loads in about 10-15 seconds. I think as VPC5 is optimized and OSX is better optimized, the load times will be more on par with each other.

 

[MrNewt]

Mine is about 20sec for XP pro on a
8kha+ w/xp1600, wd 80GB.
this seems ok for me, but my
shut down times seem long.
up to 1 min sometimes.
ne1 else have long times on shut downs
thanks..

 

[MasterHoss]

Wow, mine takes about 45sec to 1 minute. It must be all my PCI cards and my 7 USB devices Of course, my Promise RAID controller doesn't help either.

Yeah, my shut down times are too long--in fact, I just manually turn off my computer now--it doesn't seem to shut down or restart under WinXP...I think it has something to do with the onboard Promise RAID controller on my A7V133...I have the newest Promise drivers from ASUS' website but XP still says that those drivers aren't signed and upon bootup, Windows prompts me and says that the RAID controller will be turned off or something to keep my computer from blowing up.

That's enough to get me to kill the RAID on my HDs after finals.