How long does it take your PC to boot up?

[poindextermatic]

This is somthing I was obsessed with a few years ago, don't know why! Back in the day when I had a 400Mhz Pentium it took an age to boot up and I was always trying to find ways to make it boot faster - never really found any good ways... windows is so bloaty and complex... you would think these days a flick of a switch and hay-presto! it's on in a few ticks...

Anyway, just wanted to know how fast every bodies PC booted??

Mine boots and loads windows in about 70 - 80 secs - from time I press power button to when the HDD stops loading programs such as my McAfee antispy/virus/fire etc...

Anyone got a real speed booter? Or a very slow one!

Get you stopwatch and time it!

[8bit]

hmm not sure, under a minute for mine, probably about 40 seconds i think... it's just had a fresh install mind you, but all my stuff is back on there now... Will time it this evening

[BlueMagician]

...Get you stopwatch and time it!...

Still waiting for my replacement PSU, so I'm on an old dog for the next day or two.

I know my new rig takes about the same time to go through POST as it does to start and finish windows, so until I get it up and running again I'll give a conservative estimate of 25 seconds with a clean install...

S.

[satan]

Mine takes 18 seconds from POST to a fully loaded desktop.

[Nemeliza]

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGES from cold, takes 1 of my hard drives a lifetime to warm up and makes it hang in POST for a while.

From cold, about 3-5 minutes im guessin.
Once warm about 50-70 seconds.

[Nemeliza]

Mine takes 18 seconds from POST to a fully loaded desktop.

[Nick F]

I can get into windows with everything loads in about 20 seconds, take away 3 seconds though for my dual boot screen to pass so 17 seconds in total.

Does not really matter anyway since I leave my computer on 24/7

[poindextermatic]

Mine takes 18 seconds from POST to a fully loaded desktop.

Wow! How do u do this?!?!
What OS/PC spec?

[Nick F]

I am running WinXP SP2 with a P4 3.2ghz processor, 1GB of Ram and a Asus P4P800 Deluxe

[satan]

Mine's just Windows XP, nice healthy install. I try not to let stuff start up when Windows starts, and I defragment regularly.

It's a P4 3.0Ghz.

[unrealrocks]

Mine takes around 7-8mins as it runs so much junk at startup (junk I want it to run mind).

[Steve]

I'm about 20 seconds in POST while my RAID 5 array is spun up and detected. Then I'd say another 20 while windows boots, so let's say just under a minute.

[silon]

i noticed [though i cannnot be sure this applies to all] that my p4c system booted much faster than my current a64 system, with an asus a8v.
i suspect perhaps that the intel southbridge is more optimized for windowsXP or the other way around, so it loads faster....
im not sure... does anyone experience the same thing?

[Steve]

i noticed [though i cannnot be sure this applies to all] that my p4c system booted much faster than my current a64 system, with an asus a8v.
i suspect perhaps that the intel southbridge is more optimized for windowsXP or the other way around, so it loads faster....
im not sure... does anyone experience the same thing?

I turn off everything I don't use on the motherboard. So the onboard SATA ports, parallel port, IDE channels (except one of them) and so on... all disabled. That speeds things up a lot, less for POST to test/enumerate and fewer drivers for XP to load.

Without doing this, newer faster PCs with more on them may boot slower, I find.

[Firelord]

Fricking ages cos I have to wait for the prommin to drop to -60c to boot

[megah0]

windows box around 30 seconds.

Linux box about a minute and half due to all the rubbish I installed trying to get bluetooth to work i reckon.