How long does it take you to boot your PC

my old opteron system used to boot in to windows in 2 passes of the windows bar, no word of a lie. im convinced it was because the board required no chipset drivers other than the usual sound, lan ect. strange but true.


my current c2d take a while, probably just over a minute. but i have tones of software running so its acceptable.
 
ive got a maxtor 80GB IDE - 5200RPM, dunno whether its worth upgrading to a 120 sata 7200RPM - will i see much of a speed increase in boot up
 
for the price of them you might as well get some thing bigger. either go for a seagate 7200.10 series or a samsung.

there isnt much difference in speed between the seagate and a raptor
 
40 Seconds until at the desktop with everything loaded. Waiting until I can afford my X2 6000, then it'll be nice and quick.
 
Keeny1979 said:
for the price of them you might as well get some thing bigger. either go for a seagate 7200.10 series or a samsung.

there isnt much difference in speed between the seagate and a raptor
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:p u sure? :)
 
weringo said:
Lol mine takes 22 seconds just to the the Windows scrolling bars!
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I've got 0 applications on startup... its could be the raptor..ill make a video of it on saturday if you guys wanna see :p ill overclock it too and see how much difference it makes.
 
tsj said:
I've got 0 applications on startup... its could be the raptor..ill make a video of it on saturday if you guys wanna see :p ill overclock it too and see how much difference it makes.
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bleh i just tried agian it took 28 now :(
 
About 40 or 45 seconds? A lot of that is the Dell Bios though, it takes a while loading sata and other bits and bobs.
 
Get rid of those startup things. I haven't run antivirus/spyware/firewall in over a year and have had NO problems at all. Literally nothing bad has happened to my machine. Just takes a tiny amount of common sense. And everything is so much faster. All that loads on startup is WhatPulse (counts keys) and the gmail alert thingy.

Edit: can't give you a time. Machine is on 24/7.

Edit: fine, since css crashed (bloody valve, they 'fix' until it breaks) 43 seconds, xp, opty 165 @ 3hz.
 
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Adam18290 said:
Mine takes exactly 3 minutes from pressing the power button to having loaded all my programs, norton, logitech setpoint, msn, steam.

How long does it take you guys, dunno if mine is really slow or not :confused:

Specs:

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1.5 GB ram (1GB corsair, 512 OCZ)

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About 1min 15 (1 min not including graphic post and PC post)

Startup: PC-cillin, NVIDIA drivers, Windows Live Messenger with the MSGPLUS addon, Setpoint, KeyCount (why do I still run that? :rolleyes: ), webshots

P4 3GHZ
1GB RAM
200GB SATA
Asus P5P800-SE
 
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22 seconds now... i turned off ide on the bios as i dont use it :D
im gonna try to even lower this (im back at stock speeds now though)
 
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