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5 second bios - really need to change a setting so it is quicker. 10-15 to login.
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How long does your PC take to boot?
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Roughly 5 minutes.
And what I have to do is take the keyboard off, turn it on, wait until it boots and then put it back in (laptop) else it won't post.
It's a bit knackered I'll give you that. Building a rig on payday though, long overdue, this piece of crap is specced way below my needs and it's falling apart.
And what I have to do is take the keyboard off, turn it on, wait until it boots and then put it back in (laptop) else it won't post.
It's a bit knackered I'll give you that. Building a rig on payday though, long overdue, this piece of crap is specced way below my needs and it's falling apart.
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Tried it first time after reading this thread and it was 24 seconds, but thats with the bios scanning and controllers sorting them selves out, then realised i must beable to cut that time down as others here have way quicker than mine, so disabled some onboard bits... and now from cold start to win7 desktop 17seconds and on this 17th second everything is loaded and instant from there on...
2600k @ 4.4, 64gb vertex2 SSD... i dont know how i could get is any quicker...
How are peps getting the 12 sec make?
2600k @ 4.4, 64gb vertex2 SSD... i dont know how i could get is any quicker...
How are peps getting the 12 sec make?
Disabling the Windows boot animation speeds it up a good deal and also doing the force install method for Intel Chipset drivers as the installer is buggy and doesn't update them properly otherwise.
Id like to know this too. Thinking about using a Crucial M4 on SATA 2 instead of 3
Right guys I have just tested my newly built system (specs in sig) and from pressing the power button, it took a total of 42 seconds, to get to the desktop and then I waited for the loading circle next to the cursor to go away
I then went into msconfig and checked the box that says 'No GUI boot', this took of 2 seconds
Is there any other ways I could speed this up??
It 'wastes' 7 seconds sitting at the ASUS screen at the start, "Press delete to enter BIOS settings". Is there any way that I can make it spend less time at this screen, or even better make it so that the screen does not normally show, and I just access the BIOS/make the screen show another way if I need to
Hope you can help,
EDIT: I booted 3 times so far with 'No GUI boot', and one of these times it would not get past a screen where I just saw a black screen with an 'E' with an accent on top of it, and a flashing underscore. Is this related to the 'no GUI boot' as it has never happened before. When I tapped the power button it turned off instantly, so I learnt the other day that this means the windows kernel has not started loading yet
I then went into msconfig and checked the box that says 'No GUI boot', this took of 2 seconds
Is there any other ways I could speed this up??
It 'wastes' 7 seconds sitting at the ASUS screen at the start, "Press delete to enter BIOS settings". Is there any way that I can make it spend less time at this screen, or even better make it so that the screen does not normally show, and I just access the BIOS/make the screen show another way if I need to
Hope you can help,
EDIT: I booted 3 times so far with 'No GUI boot', and one of these times it would not get past a screen where I just saw a black screen with an 'E' with an accent on top of it, and a flashing underscore. Is this related to the 'no GUI boot' as it has never happened before. When I tapped the power button it turned off instantly, so I learnt the other day that this means the windows kernel has not started loading yet
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Came back home ****ed as a fart (prolly about 5am), must have pressed the "on" button before i fell asleep. It was on when i woke up 2pm today 
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This was potsted a while ago http://www.greatis.com/bootracer/ to check your boot time.
I get a time of 27 seconds to long on and to desktop in 35 seconds with OCZ Vertex 2 60GB
I get a time of 27 seconds to long on and to desktop in 35 seconds with OCZ Vertex 2 60GB
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Why do those looking for a quicker boot not simply use sleep mode instead of shutdown? It's hard to beat the 2 seconds taken to resume from sleep mode! Plus you're not only saving the boot time, but the time taken to get your applications back to the point where they were before shutdown!
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Tested just now with bootracer.
Loads msn, afterburner, xonar control centre, avast and a few desktop system monitoring utilities. Os drive is a 120gb vertex 2e bigfoot.
Loads msn, afterburner, xonar control centre, avast and a few desktop system monitoring utilities. Os drive is a 120gb vertex 2e bigfoot.
I was told that sleep mode kills SSD's very fast as they do lots of reads and writes?
Just run bootracer and I got:
Time to logon: 6 seconds
Time to desktop: 14 seconds
User logon waiting time: 0 seconds (as I have no password, I assume)
But literally timing the computer, before I even installed bootracer, from turning the PC on until waiting for the loading circle next to the cursor to disappear takes 40 seconds
Any way to speed that up?
Anyone have an answer for my previous question:
Hope you can help,
Time to logon: 6 seconds
Time to desktop: 14 seconds
User logon waiting time: 0 seconds (as I have no password, I assume)
But literally timing the computer, before I even installed bootracer, from turning the PC on until waiting for the loading circle next to the cursor to disappear takes 40 seconds
Any way to speed that up?
Anyone have an answer for my previous question:
Hope you can help,
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Anyone have an answer for my previous question:
It 'wastes' 7 seconds sitting at the ASUS screen at the start, "Press delete to enter BIOS settings". Is there any way that I can make it spend less time at this screen, or even better make it so that the screen does not normally show, and I just access the BIOS/make the screen show another way if I need to
Hope you can help,
Does your BIOS not have an option to quick boot? Disable logo screen?