is this boot up normal?

_Jimlad_ · 11 Aug 2011 at 14:38

just moved to my first intel, and the initial boot before windows loads seems to hang a little, or at least it was not doing it on my previous amd rig?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIsvmgEAH3c

Jordan97 · 11 Aug 2011 at 15:17

It seems fine to me, what motherboard is it?

panyan · 11 Aug 2011 at 15:45

it is fine

_Jimlad_ · 11 Aug 2011 at 16:09

Jordan97 said:
It seems fine to me, what motherboard is it?

this shuttle here

http://www.shuttle.eu/products/mini-pc/sh67h7/overview/

ToejaM · 11 Aug 2011 at 19:31

Go into the bios and disable all the boot devices you dont actually use, may speed it up - make sure you dont have any usb things connected that you dont need aswell as no disc in the dvd drive.

See if that improves it.

Theres usually an option called "quick boot" not quite sure what it does maybe what it says on the tin, its always enabled on all of my boards ive ever used so double check that.

Could also be doing a ram check each time rather than a quick ram check, so look for that option.

If possible try it booting up with a non-usb keyboard and with the mouse out, tend to find that usb connections can cause a hang.

Trofeo · 11 Aug 2011 at 20:06

I would try what ToejaMz0r suggests, I wouldn't expect it to speed up a great deal though it doesn't seem particularly slow in the video you must have just had a mainboard that was particularly quick at POST'ing before. Not sure if you might be able to find an option not to display the nvidia thing that comes up first in the bios as well, I'm sure I've found something like that before on some systems, maybe someone knows what I'm trying to talk about as I don't remember any details like what the option might be called I'm afraid

Philtor · 11 Aug 2011 at 20:46

I don't see any problem with your machine booting. It's fine

Surveyor · 11 Aug 2011 at 21:02

It's around 9-10 seconds from the BIOS finishing doing its thing to the Windows log on screen.

What more do you want?

jennidc · 11 Aug 2011 at 22:00

Quick Boot

Go to Boot drive list and change it to the hard disk as first boot and then remove 2nd / 3rd boot drive so only your boot drive is listed.

And as previously said turn off the show splash screen option and select quick boot and turn off any features you don't use eg - onboard ethernet, firewire, onboard graphics etc

If you have a 4gb USB flash memory stick select the option in Windows to use it as Windows cache to speed up your Windows boot time.

_Jimlad_ · 11 Aug 2011 at 22:23

cheers guys will have a play with the bios tomorrow

_Jimlad_ · 12 Aug 2011 at 13:06

no option for quick boot

what about hyperthreading ya or na?

Trofeo · 14 Aug 2011 at 19:23

hyperthreading ya

_Jimlad_ · 14 Aug 2011 at 20:13

cheers dude. cant see any quick boot options and everything else seems in order

NutterzUK · 14 Aug 2011 at 23:49

Looks like it booted pretty fast to me.. certainly faster than my i7 920 on a MSI X58M

_Jimlad_ · 15 Aug 2011 at 00:02

NutterzUK said:
Looks like it booted pretty fast to me.. certainly faster than my i7 920 on a MSI X58M

that will be the ssd, i just thought the post took its time, longer than my 3 year old amd shuttle

Buchanan0204 · 15 Aug 2011 at 02:11

Your card reader along with your two drives wont help things.

POST really is a ****

P.S. what's wrong with sata-0 and sata-1?

freddie64 · 15 Aug 2011 at 05:56

Looked pretty fast boot time to me.

You could try using sleep mode instead of turning computer off.

_Jimlad_ · 15 Aug 2011 at 09:07

Buchanan0204 said:
Your card reader along with your two drives wont help things.

POST really is a ****

P.S. what's wrong with sata-0 and sata-1?

will having the drives in sata 0 and 1 make any difference. its odd as ports 0,1 are in the middle of the system and 1, 2 are tucked away nicely for a tidy and good air flow.

Buchanan0204 · 15 Aug 2011 at 15:24

You wont know until you try?

Worth a shot anyway.

Phage · 15 Aug 2011 at 20:26

Looked fine to me. If you're feeling brave you could always look for a newer BIOS. But...I doubt that it would make any difference. If it aint broke....