Pool: Boot up time

[slowmike]

how long does your comp take to boot up?

[Johan]

Too long...probably 30-35 seconds or so. The SCSI BIOS installation really slows it down.

[takiwa]

around 25 secs...give or take a few

[slowmike]

mine takes 2-2.5 minutes!!!!!!!! its an old p2 266 with win98

[Johan]

For comparison, I am working on a Celery 266 w/ 98SE...boots in about 45-50 seconds.

[Diggrr]

2.5-3 minutes. Satelite modem and raid (extra bios to start) takes up alot of time.

[WyrmMaster]

somewhere in the 35 - 45 second range.

[Dissolved]

10~25 seconds..

[Monaco]

My overclocking rig (Celeron566@995) Win2K rig takes almost a minute and a half.

My roommate's Sony VAIO Win2K 1ghz Athlon takes like 10 sec.

The backup Compaq Celeron 667 Win98SE takes like 30 sec.

This is a good idea for a poll!

[KaHNZa]

I dunno, maybe 20-25 seconds.

[Blue Jester_2112]

'Bout 40-45 sec. I got a ATA 100 Controller and Raid card so that slows it down. Used to be 20-30 seconds.

[WeaponX]

Win XP - 1 min
Win 98 - 45 sec

I have a wireless network installed so it slows it down a bit :)

[Yodums]

From the moment I hit the power, 40secs w/ Win XP Pro.

[adamtekh]

about 25 secs , havent timed though , i will some time later

[RangerJoe]

35-40 sec with my p2 350 with winxp pro
20-25 sec with my 1.33 tbird with winxp pro (sometimes less)

[oc jason]

26 seconds after BIOS screen
Winxp Pro Corprorate

[Escuchamezz]

22 Seconds thanks to windows XP

[mikester]

about 15 seconds on 2k for me.:D

[TJ9]

about 1-2 minutes with a 1GT-Bird@1.3G. Mostly it just my Sound card driver taking the time it seems.

[foxforcefive]

Rig 1 takes 54 sec...Rig 2 takes 28 sec. Both with XP Pro.

BL

[JigPu]

Power on to complete loading of all programs: About 45 seconds

Power on to Display of mouse: 26 seconds. :D

JigPu

[phungilax]

adoes this poll include just into windows or for all your startup programs to load to

to windows: 15-20 secs.
w/ programs: 40 secs.

hopefully these times will be less with XP, i'm hoping

[rogerdugans]

XP 1800+(1.533@1667) Win2K Pro, no boot from cd rom in bios,start to finish, and able to run a program immediately: 55 seconds.

Includes IIS, Seti@Home, MultiSetiMonitor,SetiQueue and ZoneAlarm.

Of course normally it never reboots:D I had to shut it down to time it.

[Stick00]

20 sec for me

[Luie]

hmmm...do you guys do tweaks as well as overclock? I find tweaking are more effective...don't flame me...jmho...

Windows XP: ~15 Sec
Windows 98: ~9 Sec

[VashTheStampede]

Originally posted by luie
hmmm...do you guys do tweaks as well as overclock? I find tweaking are more effective...don't flame me...jmho...

Windows XP: ~15 Sec
Windows 98: ~9 Sec

From POST to Windows 98 ~9 seconds?! Wait how?

I start counting from the second the Elsa Gladiac 920 info pops up on the screen, I let all 640MB of RAM be counted, have Dual Boot set to 0 seconds and I still cannot get Win2k up under 1 minute. 1:10 to be exact.

~Vash~

[rogerdugans]

Originally posted by luie
hmmm...do you guys do tweaks as well as overclock? I find tweaking are more effective...don't flame me...jmho...

Windows XP: ~15 Sec
Windows 98: ~9 Sec

In reply:

I (and many others) do tweak my os a lot- if I turn off a bunch of services that are not necessary for a minimal desktop os, and get rid of memory checking in bios, I can lose around 15/20 seconds on my boot time (estimated.)

But I don't think a time of around a minute is bad for Win2K that is providing WWW, FTP and network services, plus the programs I have running at startup: my login screen arrives at 30 seconds into the boot process- but the pc is nowhere near ready to be used yet!

How about measuring boot times in an average over, say.... a year? Since my Win2K/Linux and WinNT rigs do not normally get rebooted the boot up times don't particularly bother me! A fast stable OS is much more important.

[Luie]

From my last post,

Win XP: ~15 sec and win 98: ~9 sec is when i press the power button and timed it and stops the watch when i see my wallpaper in windows.

if counting the loading of programs as well, it would be:

Win XP: ~18 sec
Win 98: ~11 sec

ps. i timed it with my casio watch so i think it is pretty accurate. Also I timed it several times.