Your fastest boot time

[Jason S. Global Moderator]

5 seconds

that doesnt count. and your entire video was much longer than 5 secs.

btw, what does boot time mean? cold boot w/ POST and Windows load? only windows load?

[Hoang V Nguyen]

My fastest boot with Windows is 20 seconds, I am using Windows 7 in Macbook Pro. I hear that if I replacement my hdd by solid drive, it could be faster than now, maybe 15 seconds.

[bogas04]

I hibernate :D

[Billus]

Windows loading (skipping BIOS) is round 20 seconds or so, give or take. BIOS check itself as well as the hard drive check takes around 20 seconds itself.

Edit: Laptop takes around 20 seconds tops including BIOS loadup thingy which takes tops, 1 or 2 secs.

[Sikh]

I hibernate :D

haha same here. our "boot time :p" is 5 seconds maybe 10 at the most. haha

[Pharos]

From the moment "Starting Windows" appears to desktop = 13 seconds

Gotta love SSDs! :woot:

[Gary2MBz]

About 23 seconds from post to desktop on the laptop loaded by my WD Scorpio Black.

About 33 seconds from post to desktop on the Athlon 64 build run by a Seagate 250GB 7200RPM SATA 3.0GBps brought down to 1.5 by the mobo.

I plan to upgrade the laptop with an SSD possibly by the end the year. I plan to replace the Athlon 64 machine but keeping some parts to make a Core i5 (maybe i7 depends on price) file server. I will do a RAID 5 + JBOD setup and have it shared over Gigabit and Wireless N @ 300mbps

[cork1958]

All 7 of my machines take about 20-30 seconds from hitting power button to clicking something!!

[avpblogs]

22 seconds from cold booting to the login screen.

It is kind of fun to have a race between different boxes by starting them off at same time and seeing which one wins. :D

[bogas04]

haha same here. our "boot time :p" is 5 seconds maybe 10 at the most. haha

Whats more common is that we both are Sikh too!

[e-berlin.org]

that doesnt count. and your entire video was much longer than 5 secs.

Yes, it counts. That's how a Mac with SSD boots and that's the real thing.

And zulugod, booting itself took ~7 seconds, not 5.

[Tweaker]

Here is a very handy little tool that will not only analyze your boot time but it will also tell you how you can speed your boot time up. The first time I used the tool it showed a boot time of 1 min 05 sec. Then I made some of the recommended changes which improved my boot time to 39 sec.

Here is the link to the tool: http://www.soluto.com/

Here is a screen shot:

[c3ntury]

20 or so seconds..

[PixilEyes]

5 seconds

Thats about 17 secs.

[Omen1393]

Average start time for my brother's laptop with an SSD is 15-16 seconds, this is including the BIOS.

[Raa]

When I had Windows ME it was several seconds... :laugh:

[Phenom II]

My BIOS takes longer to POST and check RAID, than Windows takes to load

[The_Observer]

dont turn off my computer so i have to think about rebooting. Im not too concerned about booting times.

[RoomKid]

Mine's about 18 - 22 seconds. :blush:

[tsupersonic]

18-20 seconds w/ BIOS time, timed using phone. SSD power! Although with WD Black HDD, it took about 25 seconds, so not a huge difference.

[~impuLsive]

My boot time is about 15-20 seconds on average.

[App0x]

Mine is about 25-26 on average.

[xp1ode]

around 17sec with lucid amd 3.2 phenom II, 8 gigs ram, ati 5770, and 3 hdds. This speedy boot thanks to the a kernel update to 2.6.35-rcX, before it was in the 30sec.

[xendrome]

Mine was about approximately 12 secs................ before I installed SP2, now my boot time is like 25 secs.

SP2 of what?

[Argi]

Does the 2s it take for my desktop to come out of standby/sleep count? :shiftyninja: