Post boot time?

[Cheetah Designs]

With operating systems loading quicker and quicker these days from cold boots, it is coming to the point where posting takes a significant percentage of the boot time.

What affects the speed of the post time? Does it change between motherboards? Any way to decrease the time it takes to post?

 

[nightmare99]

This is one of the advantages of UEFI a faster boot time. I believe for Windows 8 certification a UEFI bios must load and start booting the OS in 2.5 seconds. I think with the latest APTIO core ami have achieved this.

 

[Barry1987]

My POST literally takes 0.2 seconds and then proceeds to load Windows (which takes 5-8 seconds to get to my desktop from there).

My post was almost non existent (you sometimes got a glimpse of it) on my old DDR2 motherboard with a Q6600 processor so I doubt it's anything to do with the motherboard or processor.