Thursday, September 24th 2009
New Phoenix Instant Boot BIOS Starts Loading the OS in Under a Second
System BIOS vendor Phoenix Technology, the company behind the popular Award BIOS software found on several PC motherboards, has come up with a new highly-optimized implementation of UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface), that can boot the OS in under one second. This cuts time of the arbitrary 5~15 second (typical) POST process. With this time saved, system startup times are significantly reduced. Startup times are further reduced by the optimized startup procedure on Windows 7.
To put this to test, a Dell Adamo notebook with the technology, was able to reach the Windows Desktop in 20 seconds from the push of the power button, while Lenovo T400 notebooks with faster SSDs reached the Desktop in under 10 seconds. The technology should be out pretty soon.
Source:
Engadget
To put this to test, a Dell Adamo notebook with the technology, was able to reach the Windows Desktop in 20 seconds from the push of the power button, while Lenovo T400 notebooks with faster SSDs reached the Desktop in under 10 seconds. The technology should be out pretty soon.
37 Comments on New Phoenix Instant Boot BIOS Starts Loading the OS in Under a Second
Check out the video at the source.
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But booting to Windows in 20 seconds would be nice.
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WOW!
from one second to this, I'm not sure I follow: "To put this to test, a Dell Adamo notebook with the technology, was able to reach the Windows Desktop in 20 seconds from the push of the power button, while Lenovo T400 notebooks with faster SSDs reached the Desktop in under 10 seconds. The technology should be out pretty soon."
You would need devices with EFI firmware.
What the BIOS does is lets the system go into sleep/hibernate, and then saves that state.
next time you power it on, even if it POST's/looks like a normal boot, its really resuming from an S3? sleep state.
Remember, "booting" isn't complete when you see your Windows login screen. It's complete when the system firmware has initialised all its devices, read the boot-sector of a bootable device, and loaded command.com into the memory.
this doesnt boot the OS in one second - it POSTS in one second, allowing the OS to start booting immediately.
booting ≠ booted
its just one of those things where everyone uses inaccurate speech (at least around here) so it seems a vague way to say it.
I do get what it is now (essentially, makes POST instant)
Booting is the handing-over of all control over the hardware to the OS. This exclusive "ring-0" control changes hands the moment command.com is loaded.
booted = when OS has loaded/usable.
thats the way i always saw it, but i can hazily understand BTA's view, that a program has "booted" the second its started.
In computing, booting (also known as "booting up") is a bootstrapping process that starts operating systems when the user turns on a computer system.
so if i interpret that correctly it would be until execution is handed off to any piece of microsoft windows code? which is probably the MBR boot loader NTLDR/BOOTMGR?