New Bios for 2011, faster boot times for all.

Does sound good, lets hope it doesn't screw up overclocking stuff, don't know why it would just don't want to see it (sigh bad phrasing, you get what i mean.)
 
Don't quite get it - they're suggesting an end to long bootup times, even talking about instant on. But surely this development only applies to the time going through BIOS stuff and has no effect on the OS load time? They mention 25-30 seconds in the article, but huh? My machine is out of BIOS in about 5 seconds and loading the OS. Seems a bit meh to me (hyping bootup speed that is - I'm sure the functionality and benefits to hardware developers etc etc are all very welcome).
 
New motherboard. And 'A handful of seconds until the OS starts', pretty much that fast anyway. I'm sure it has lots of other benefits for connecting devices. Bet this will be one of those thing they hype up at the World of PCs and the like.
 
Gundog48 said:
New motherboard. And 'A handful of seconds until the OS starts', pretty much that fast anyway. I'm sure it has lots of other benefits for connecting devices. Bet this will be one of those thing they hype up at the World of PCs and the like.
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Don't forget though that so far it's based on large scales - such as in businesses and databanks etc.

Whether there's that much of a real difference to the average Joe or not won't change the fact that it's likely to take over from the old use of BIOS...

It's just a new bit of tech we're gonna have to learn and get used to in the future :P
 
There are legitimate benefits to this, but this quote is just ridiculous:
"At the moment it can be 25-30 seconds of boot time before you see the first bit of OS sign-on," he said. "With UEFI we're getting it under a handful of seconds."
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WTF is that guy doing to his BIOS to make it that slow?
 
Surprisingly, quite a few "server" boards really are quite slow when starting up, I have servers that are still checking out their raid controllers, and bits and bobs 30 seconds after power on. Infact they dont even wake up the screen for a good 10 seconds. But then again, who really cares. Most server owners hope that their servers are turned on once, and left running potentially for years. A few seconds shaved of the boot time is nothing.

On the other hand, the majority of "desktop" PC boards, and Laptops etc, generally are done and dusted with bios after 2-3 seconds, even with raid controllers/ahci etc enabled.

UEFI/EFI... dont really see it making much of a change really. Its still the windows boot time that holds things up, and faster and faster SSD's are eroding that.
 
Baboonanza said:
There are legitimate benefits to this, but this quote is just ridiculous:

WTF is that guy doing to his BIOS to make it that slow?
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Try booting an ASUS P6Tv2deluxe
First time wasted on the immediate internet thing, then normal post, then OC check, then scan for drives, then scan for something else, etc etc.
Takes ages to actually get thru BIOS and POST on that board.
 
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