How fast does your PC post?

Craig321 · 12 Oct 2006 at 23:59

Mine's about 18 seconds.

From when you press the on button on the case until you say the blue slidey loading thing.

Also, specs as well

Mine:
3GHZ
Corsair XMS3200 Pro DDR 512MBx2
200GB SATA DMax+10
Asus P5P800 SE

Yours?

Zefan · 13 Oct 2006 at 00:01

About 2 days, can do next day on RMSD though.

Yewen · 13 Oct 2006 at 00:18

Zefan said:
About 2 days, can do next day on RMSD though.

Trying to hard.

If its to windows useable then its about 20 seconds, to the point when its all loaded is about 40 as I load Outlook / MSN / FF / Onenote amongst others.

burtie · 13 Oct 2006 at 00:25

15 seconds maybe i`ve turned most things off i don`t need on boot.Just checked and its more like 40 seconds

Gas Panic! · 13 Oct 2006 at 00:26

MY PC likes to not do much for about 7 passes of the Windows loading bar, and then the HDD relises that it exists and kicks into gear... and then I'm into Windows after another 7 passes.

Usable - 30-40secs.

Zefan · 13 Oct 2006 at 00:28

Yewen said:
Trying to hard.

I wouldn't call royal mail's service "trying".

megatron · 13 Oct 2006 at 00:28

Microsoft bootvis, is a good program to test it with. Personally n/a because its on 24/7.

Yewen · 13 Oct 2006 at 00:37

Zefan said:
I wouldn't call royal mail's service "trying".

Neither would I, but I would call you it.

Craig321 · 13 Oct 2006 at 01:02

Post as in from when you press the on button on your case until you see the windows slidey bar thingy guys!

ken1307 · 13 Oct 2006 at 01:53

mine takes ages (well, I never count infact

) but I dont really care anyway cus my PC is on 24/7

Craig321 said:
Post as in from when you press the on button on your case until you see the windows slidey bar thingy guys!

that would depends a lot on what you enable/disable in BIOS

Greenlizard0 · 13 Oct 2006 at 05:30

Craig321 said:
Post as in from when you press the on button on your case until you see the windows slidey bar thingy guys!

About eight seconds. But most of it's waiting to e.g. enter the bios, run memory checks etc. There's no way of disabling these to make it go faster!!

Mana · 13 Oct 2006 at 05:52

no idea, pc is on 24/7.

BillytheImpaler · 13 Oct 2006 at 06:24

My PC doesn't post anywhere near as fast as Gilly's does. His is a serious posting machine.

Mr. Brightside · 13 Oct 2006 at 06:29

Four seconds for laptop (Inspiron 6000 1.73GHz Pentium M).
Twelve seconds for main rig (P4 3.0E Abit IC7 Max 3).

Finally something that isn't entirely dependant on pure number crunching performance

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wizardmaxx · 13 Oct 2006 at 06:31

Around 15 seconds, but this is entirly dependant on mobo and bios features. Had an asus with a barton once that could do it is about 4 seconds. At least I have only one 'slidey' pass and it carries on.

Camalot · 13 Oct 2006 at 10:14

Mine used to do half a pass at the loading xp bar and go straight past it. Now i reformatted it does like 8 passes lol

God knows why.

Craig321 · 13 Oct 2006 at 13:01

Glad I'm not the only one with a >10 second post time. I guess it's all to do with how much you have plugged in and enabled.

Hlebio · 13 Oct 2006 at 13:09

Probably about 40 seconds.

And that is when it decides to actually load. Bloody thing.

Captain Fizz · 13 Oct 2006 at 14:48

Around 14 secs...
After it detects the 2 x arrays, mem test etc.

It's the array screens that increases the time.
They have to allow 3 seconds or so after detecting the array so you can "Press F10" to enter its config.

So with just IDE it would probably be closer to 8 seconds.

EDIT, in case sig is too dull...

X2 3800
2GB 3500
1 'RAID' array for the Raptor
1 RAID5 array for the Seagates

ghgh · 13 Oct 2006 at 16:29

about 5 seconds on my laptop from screen on to start of loading windows that is. P4-1800 mobile, 768MB RAM. Laptops seem to POST really quickly.

How fast does your PC post?

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