Boot Up Time Thread

[3dsage]

Starting a new thread to see what kind of Boot up time everyone is getting.

Here how to get the program http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/151819-boot-up-time.html

Just submit a screenie of your time, HD model , OS and specs if youd like.

3dsage | 55 seconds | Seagate 7200.12 |Vista 64

USER | Boot Time |Hard Drive | OS
KH0UJ |48x | Hitachi Deskstar 160 GB |XP PRO
Tigger | 50 x| Seagate 500gb 7200.12 |win7 7100 x86
MoonPig | 51 x| 1x WesternDigital Black 500GB | Windows 7 7127 64bit
Phanbuey | 52 x | 2xWD1600 RAID-0 128K stripe |W7
3dsage | 55 x|Barracuda 7200.12 |Vista Ultimate x64
MoonPig | 58 x | 1x WesternDigital Black 500GB | Windows7 7127 64bit
t77snapshot | 69x| WD 640 BLACK | Win7 64-Bit
AhokZYashA|69x|Seagate 7200.9 160GB |Win 7 7100
Maban | 72 x| Seagate ST3500630AS | Vista Ultimate X64
human_error | 88x | 2x ocz vertex 32gb ssd raid 0 | vista 64 ultimate sp2
Zubasa | 100 x| Barracuda 7200.12 | Vista Ultimate

 

[phanbuey]

2 slow wd1600's ($50 bucks each 2 years ago) in RAID 0 128KB stripe - this is windows 7 though, which starts a bit faster than vista.

EDIT: it will be interesting to see how W7 stacks against Vista in boot times.

 

[3dsage]

^ Not bad at all for some older tech (hard drives)
I know SSD and W7 is gonna be quik , hopefully somebody will post up.

 

[joshiers8605]

one way to help speed things up, if you use a lottt of photoshop fonts, install them into the photoshop programs folder, instead of the windows font folder

 

[phanbuey]

one way to help speed things up, if you use a lottt of photoshop fonts, install them into the photoshop programs folder, instead of the windows font folder

Does that actually do anything? I always do it on my system - but it never seems to make a difference.

 

[joshiers8605]

Does that actually do anything? I always do it on my system - but it never seems to make a difference.

i guess it just depends on how many fonts you have installed

 

[3dsage]

I lost like 3seconds, going to MSCONFIG, and changed Number of processors to 4 (or whatever you own x2 or x4 core) and Detect HAL checked off.

 

[phanbuey]

I lost like 3seconds, going to MSCONFIG, and changed Number of processors to 4 (or whatever you own x2 or x4 core) and Detect HAL checked off.

I would imagine there to be a pretty big margin of error for the boot times, but the number of processors boot tweak has been debunked

http://www.withinwindows.com/2008/08/09/tweaking-myth-increase-boot-performance-for-multi-core-users-with-msconfig/

There is a pretty good program called BOOTVIS that can optimize your stuff. IDK if it works with Vista though.

 

[IINexusII]

i think we already had a thread like this, where i posted mine

 

[3dsage]

Bump, im sure other people are curious to see how long fellow TPU members PC"S take to reboot.

 

[Maban]

Booting from second partition 150GB into the drive. And also about 1-3 seconds added for inputting password.

 

[Maban]

My mom's PC boots in 219 seconds with a WD1600JB-00GVA0 using WinXP. Which is a hell of a lot better than it used to.

 

[t77snapshot]

69 sec

 

[KH0UJ]

mine has a start-up time of 6 seconds, and a shutdown time of 5 seconds, its an XP sp3 though

is there a start-up and shutdown logger for XP? so that I can also put my screenshots on mine?

 

[t77snapshot]

mine has a start-up time of 6 seconds, and a shutdown time of 5 seconds, its an XP sp3 though

is there a start-up and shutdown logger for XP? so that I can also put my screenshots on mine?

I'm sure there is a program for XP...I hope so because I gotta see this 11 sec restart time! It sounds kinda hard to believe, but please prove me wrong

Edit: I found this: http://www.mydigitallife.info/2009/02/01/download-bootracer-to-monitor-boot-up-time-in-windows-system/
But I did not research it so check it out.

 

[KH0UJ]

I only used a stopwatch on my test LOL
OS 1-6 seconds start, 5 seconds shutdown (Application OS)
OS 2-5 seconds start, 4 seconds shutdown (gaming OS)

disabled prefetcher on the registry
used tuneXP for faster shutdown
disabled recent documents history (recentdocshistory 1)
disabled some of the unnecessary start-up items not required for booting
disabled StartMenuLogOff
noguiboot LOL
defrag boot files to the edge of the partition
OS 1 deepfreeze 6 locked, no anti-virus LOL

 

[KH0UJ]

I'm sure there is a program for XP...I hope so because I gotta see this 11 sec restart time! It sounds kinda hard to believe, but please prove me wrong

Edit: I found this: http://www.mydigitallife.info/2009/02/01/download-bootracer-to-monitor-boot-up-time-in-windows-system/
But I did not research it so check it out.

thanks bro ill try it and post some screenies after

 

[KH0UJ]

I'm sure there is a program for XP...I hope so because I gotta see this 11 sec restart time! It sounds kinda hard to believe, but please prove me wrong

Edit: I found this: http://www.mydigitallife.info/2009/02/01/download-bootracer-to-monitor-boot-up-time-in-windows-system/
But I did not research it so check it out.

Ya im once again wrong bro

cause im starting my stopwatch the moment I press enter in the OS selection screen

and stopping it as soon as the desktop appears (5 seconds)

Sorry im wrong

same thing I did on the shutdown, the moment i press the shutdown button until my monitor blacks out (4 seconds) I think its wrong again

 

[t77snapshot]

Ya im once again wrong bro

http://img.techpowerup.org/090805/1.jpg

cause im starting my stopwatch the moment I press enter in the OS selection screen

http://img.techpowerup.org/090805/2.jpg

and stopping it as soon as the desktop appears (5 seconds

Yeah, I have never heard of any desktop computer booting up in 4-6 sec. But your timings are still impressivevery nice.

 

[3dsage]

Ya im once again wrong bro

http://img.techpowerup.org/090805/1.jpg

cause im starting my stopwatch the moment I press enter in the OS selection screen

http://img.techpowerup.org/090805/2.jpg

and stopping it as soon as the desktop appears (5 seconds)

http://img.techpowerup.org/090805/3.jpg

Sorry im wrong

same thing I did on the shutdown, the moment i press the shutdown button until my monitor blacks out (4 seconds) I think its wrong again

Thats awesome dude, but I think this VBscript Is the total restart time.
Just run it and see what you get.

 

[KH0UJ]

Thats awesome dude, but I think this VBscript Is the total restart time.
Just run it and see what you get.

I ran the bootracer program T77snapshot linked, 31 seconds

 

[HalfAHertz]

Tried some tweaks and this is the best I could come up with:

Startup & shutdown below, total restart time is ~ 85s, That's on my lappy.

 

[MoonPig]

MoonPig | 58 seconds | 1x WesternDigital Black 500GB | Windows7 7127 64bit

http://img.techpowerup.org/090807/Untitled392.png

 

[human_error]

my BIOS loading and RAID matrix controls takes most of that time (before i even get to OS loading)...i hate this stoopid motherboard :shadedshu

I'm praying win7 will get me better times...

(human_error | 88 secs | 2x ocz vertex 32gb ssd raid 0 | vista 64 ultimate sp2 )

 

[AhokZYashA]

add me

I have 4 OS in my rig..
so choosing it take time.
see specs on the left...

(AhokZYashA/69 secs/Seagate 7200.9 160GB SATA/Win 7 7100)