How fast does your PC boot up?

Mine takes about a minute, E8400 @ 3.6 ghz, 4gb of ram. I think it's because of my western digital mybook though, it sits and makes noises for about 15 seconds before anything happens. Is there any way of speeding this up without having to disconnect my external?
 
Mine currently takes about 45 seconds from cold to a useable desktop.

This is on a P4 2.8GHz, 2GB Kingston ValueRam and Vista Premium. Soon to be upgraded to 4GB OCZ Ram, E8400 3GHz and possibly Vista Ultimate.
 
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DavidQ said:
Mine takes about a minute, E8400 @ 3.6 ghz, 4gb of ram. I think it's because of my western digital mybook though, it sits and makes noises for about 15 seconds before anything happens. Is there any way of speeding this up without having to disconnect my external?
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I have the same external HDD, I think it may be slowing down my boot up.
 
my comp has become completely clogged with ***** over the past 12 months. need to do a fresh install of XP really - it used to take about 34secs. Now it takes nearly a min lol
 
Robert1986 said:
I changed a few things in vista to help the boot up times I managed to get it to 52 seconds.

How fast does your pc boot up?
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What did you change?

My boot seems to take forever now, its really annoying. (1m 37sec to get to login screen :()
I'm sure it used to be sub 1m not that long ago, what could have changed?
 
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I'll time it next time i boot up. It was really really slow when i first installed vista 64 but after a few restarts its now faster then XP was before i disabled some processes.

The bios loads a lot faster now Ive disabled a few things like express gate etc.
 
Mark A said:
I'll time it next time i boot up. It was really really slow when i first installed vista 64 but after a few restarts its now faster then XP was before i disabled some processes.

The bios loads a lot faster now Ive disabled a few things like express gate etc.
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What did you disable?
 
Robert1986 said:
What did you disable?
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Legacy diskette A, express gate and a few other bits and bobs. These 2 cut about 20 seconds off the bios load time anyway.

I could also disable the large logo thing but i quite like it :D.

Just timed it and its 40 seconds from turning on the PC to desktop ready to use.
 
I'm on a old install that's not 100% anymore but even with that after Imaging my Vista across from Raptor X to VelicoRaptor last week, I have 1/3 the boot time now (I read someone went from same drives on XP and saved 1/3 of the time), I am saving 2/3 of the time for this reason :

Raptor's (guessing all 8MB's and 16MB's) + G80 GPU + Vista (guessing both 32 & 64) = Issues.


http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/wd-raptor-nvidia-g80-dont-play-nice-with-vista,review-2336.html

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/242262-14-raptor-vista-problems


Some peeps claim its does not happen, others claim it does.

I can say before the THG Fix (this was pre SP1 and SP1 does not fix a HDD's PCB issue).

My HDD would pause or stop for no real issue and then spin up again, PC was just weird to use.

I lived with the fix but it still took ages to boot up and then 5mins normally (sometimes longer)of the HDD getting thrashed after that (not Prefetch or Indexing BTW).

All issues are now gone and the THG Fix is disabled in Services, the next Clean install should be nice. :)
 
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Robert1986 said:
I have the same external HDD, I think it may be slowing down my boot up.
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If the External is on a non Native SATA Controler ie your on a Intel Mobo but the rear ports are say Silicon Image then you need wait for the Mobo Bios then the Silicon Image Sata Controller Bios Screen to come up.

Thats what the pause is.

Only way around this is to use a PCI Break Out SATA to ESATA Bracket to connect one of your Internal Intel Sata ports to outside case, it will boot instantly same as the Internal; HDD's. ;)
 
About 30 I think, it seems pretty fast. I very rarely turn it off now, I just 'Hibernate' :)
 
for all of you speed demons my e8200 in a RAID 1 with XP takes a minimum of 3 minutes before it is usable and shutting it down can take anything upto 10 mins! i think i may have a problem
 
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