ASRock Instant Boot loads Windows in four seconds

[Papipap]

I could definitely do with this: http://www.custompc.co.uk/news/60517...r-seconds.html

[s_kinton]

I've been using S3 on my HTPC and main PC for a long time. You can achieve a 4 second boot from that, but thats not from a restart only from hibernate.

Still the PC is turned off which saves on bills.

[kalniel]

Neat trick, calling sleep or hibernate after a restart. Still has most of their disadvantages though - power required for sleep, and hard disk space for hibernate. The only advantage is you get the 'clean boot' from the restart, but this adds time to shutdown.

[tomgibbes]

Hmm looks pretty good. I find most computer users I know care heavily about their boot times.

[Aden]

Impressive, with my old system, i'd go make a cuppa tea before it would be usable :S from boot.

[arthurleung]

Neat trick, calling sleep or hibernate after a restart. Still has most of their disadvantages though - power required for sleep, and hard disk space for hibernate. The only advantage is you get the 'clean boot' from the restart, but this adds time to shutdown.

I actually measured the power usage and find almost no difference between sleep and off (but plugged in). To make a difference you'll need to switch it off at the socket.

[bledd]

hibernate ftw, no power used and a fast startup

[HSK]

lol video was quite funny.

"oh I think I have to buy a new Asus motherboard, with instant boot!"

I would like this feature alot.

[dangel]

I can't see why this couldn't be done with any motherboard - in fact I could probably knock together a program to reboot and then sleep the PC without too much trouble. Only problem with S3 for me has been pants drivers taking ages to wake up properly (or not at all).

[blueball]

Mmmm, still a bit to go as far as I am concerned (my bold):

Instant Boot will also only work on Windows systems (XP or Vista) with a single-user account and no password protection.

[kalniel]

I can't see why this couldn't be done with any motherboard - in fact I could probably knock together a program to reboot and then sleep the PC without too much trouble. Only problem with S3 for me has been pants drivers taking ages to wake up properly (or not at all).

Yeah it's very simple - wouldn't work for me though because Windows is at the bottom of my boot list order