How can I make my WHS boot faster?

platypus · 9 Nov 2010 at 13:04

It's an E2200 running at 2.20GhZ, with 2GB of ram. I don't need it to boot all that quickly in theory, as its on all the time, but when I do reboot, it takes a good 10-15 minutes to come back on, and I'm not really sure why. I'd considered getting another 2gb of ram for it as I'm using as a transcoding server for movies/flac now but I shouldn't have thought it really mattered for booting?

platypus · 9 Nov 2010 at 14:09

I've run msconfig and there isn't anything loading apart from the windows drivers and my media server. It runs headless as well so I can't (without a fair bit of effort) really watch whats happening during boot.

It seems to be quick enough when shutting down. Will have a look at the bootlog.

platypus · 9 Nov 2010 at 16:35

Dodgy disks was the first though, but they pass all checks just fine. Might just reinstall it and see if that cures things.

platypus · 12 Nov 2010 at 10:52

Duke said:
If you are encoding, you might want to look at swapping the CPU for another Core 2 Duo that has more cache. 1MB is going to be holding it back a fair bit. The E5400 is a touch quicker and has 2MB but ideally something like an E8400 would be good as it is 3GHz and 6MB cache (& 1333 FSB vs 800 but that doesn't make much difference) and still quite low power/heat.

Thats a useful thing to know, as originally it was just built to sit in a cupboard crunching rosetta units, but now its my main media server transcoding films and FLAC files, it's a tad slow and I do get hang ups occasionally.

Think I might get an E7500 as its £40 cheaper and has 3MB cache.