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Your boot times

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psx-dude

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I'm rather curious what everyone's boot times are, and what operating system they're using. For me:

OS: Windows XP w/SP1
BOOT TIME: 37 seconds

Comp Specs: MSI K8T Neo, 3000+ a64, 512mb RAM, radeon 9800 pro
 
my screen goes extremely dark for about 25 seconds, then the xp bar comes up and takes one or two passes and i get to the welcome screen. dont feel like shutting of my comp to time it though. i dont know why my screen goes dark though :(

edit: forgot my os: xp home with sp2. specs in sig
 
I timed mine the other day oddly enough :) From cold start to ready in windows is about 23 seconds using system in sig. WinXP home with SP2
 
To the login screen or the desktop? Post login there is gonna be quite a lot of variation between different setups, as many services and background apps load in this period (a few prior as well obviously). If you wish to compare rigs you may want to have respondents' OSes configured in the same manner. It will be hard to get anything of statistical value otherwise, it might give something for upgraders to look forward to though I suppose. Personally I have really noticed the HDD bottleneck on boot times with a single ATA disk, makes me think about SCSI.

Edit: Just checked my time, a hair under 30sec including password entry and a handful of additional apps/services. 2600+M@2.5GHz, 512MB, Seagate 7200.7, MSI KT6 Delta.
 
From System Boot till Windows Desktop is about 12-13 seconds. The Raptor disk does wonders =)
 
Just a little over 2 mins here.
4 Gig of memory set ECC scrub.
Then waiting for the SCSI card to detect the drives.
That all adds time.
So don't reboot that often.

Luck...... :D
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mine clocks in at 57 seconds to desktop...but thats because my mobo takes forever with the RAID bios load.

OS: XP Pro SP2
Asus A7V333
Athlon XP 2600+ running at 11.5x175 (wow, what an overclock, 9 mhz on the fsb)
512meg Generic PC2700 timings are 2.5, 3, 3, 6 (according to CPU-Z)
Maxtor 30gig 5400rpm 2mb cache UDMA 4 (system)
WD 45 gig 7200rpm 2mb cache UDMA 5 (games)
2x IBM Deskstar 40 gig 5400rpm 2meg cache UDMA 5 (movies, music, CD images)
 
I have a feeling I have replied to similar posts at least 10 times, but about 31 seconds with XP Home/SP2.
 
From power on to login prompt on win2k i run about 30 seconds, problem with that is a 10 second hardware poll from the motherboard, and the extended memory chekc, i can probably sahve it down to 15 to login prompt, from login to being able to use windows, about 5 seconds.
 
Somewhere in neighborhood of 40 seconds. My motherboard recognizes all USB boot devices on startup, plus my Promise SX4000 PCI Raid Card with 256MB ECC ram takes its jolly sweet time recognizing my raid arrays on bootup.
 
2 month old install

AMD 64 2800+
1GB kingston pc3200
Asus sk8t800 mb
32mb gforce 2 MX :(
Lite-on 52x CD-RW
Sony DVD-ROM
2x 120GB 7200rpm HDD
2x 19"flat crt
120mm exhaust
4x80mm intake and internal
System idle-30/31*C
Load- 35/37*C
Win XP Pro

18-19 to login-
23 secs to dektop.

i love my new computer!!! except for my crappy old video card.
 
32.5 Seconds till desktop, Windows XP Pro, SP2. Not many programs start at boot up.

I don't have a login screen, as I don't need a password (and only have 1 account), so it goes straight on through.

Specs in sig.
 
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