Your fastest boot time

[WAR-DOG]

34 sec

Intel Celeron 2100, L2 128KB

Siemens 512 MB RAM @ 333Mhz

MSI 648 MAX motherboard

WD 120GB @ 7200rpm IDE

MSI GeForce FX5900XT 128MB

Windows XP Professional SP2

[6785077276]

Mine is about 14-20 secs

[SionicIon]

30 to 35 seconds, 5 in a half year old computer, dont rub it in!

[aclarke_31]

Do servers count ;) Server we've got here is:

Two Dual Core 2.6ghz Intel Xeon's

4gig Ram (upgradable to 16gig)

SAS array of 8x 72gig Hard Disk Drives running at 10k RPM

Whole server takes about 2 minutes to boot into Windows fully :p

Windows 2000 installed in roughly 1 minute and 30 seconds O.O;

PS: The only reason its that long is because of the ethernet bootup which I haven't disabled yet :p and the SAS Array Detection :p

[Exglade]

Mine always exactly 10 seconds...

[Helba]

When our server was still set up with our 900mhz Duron it got 30 seconds even from first BIOS screen to usable desktop.

That computer was crazy though. I don't get it. The desktop actually loaded BEFORE the welcome screen.

...Woot!

[Xerg]

After bios, it's like 7-8 secs. With bios, it's like 12 secs...

I never had to wait over 15 secs for my comp to restart. And I'm running a weak 2ghz + 7200 rpm hd.

[r47xdy88]

I remember pulling 15 seconds in XP. I just tried in Vista and got 40 sec (ouch) then again it doesn't feel that long.

[roadgeek9]

I remember pulling 15 seconds in XP. I just tried in Vista and got 40 sec (ouch) then again it doesn't feel that long.

30 seconds, my laptop (see below)

26 seconds, my desktop (see below)

50 seconds, my mac (see below)

[PyX]

My fastest boot time was with my Mac, it was like 15 seconds when I had nothing installed. Now that it's loaded, it's like 40 seconds.

I had an awesome PC before my Mac (that is still very good nowadays) and it took more than a minute and a half, so anybody who says that a PC loads within 30 seconds, I don't believe him.

It's not really about the processor here, it's about the hard disk that makes it impossible to load within x seconds, unless nothing is installed, but still.

BTW, on a PC, the BIOS itself takes more than 10 seconds. So it makes some users here even more unbelievable.

[Astra.Xtreme]

lol @ the ones saying their startup is less than 5 seconds...

nice try tho

[LightIdea]

Negative 3 seconds.

>_> please

[ViperAFK]

My fastest boot time was with my Mac, it was like 15 seconds when I had nothing installed. Now that it's loaded, it's like 40 seconds.

I had an awesome PC before my Mac (that is still very good nowadays) and it took more than a minute and a half, so anybody who says that a PC loads within 30 seconds, I don't believe him.

It's not really about the processor here, it's about the hard disk that makes it impossible to load within x seconds, unless nothing is installed, but still.

BTW, on a PC, the BIOS itself takes more than 10 seconds. So it makes some users here even more unbelievable.

my dell 4600 takes no longer than 30 seconds....

:p

you must have alot of startup items or something...

[PyX]

30 seconds... it's not unbelievable, but it's still not much.

If you don't have an antivirus, antispyware and firewall, it's totally possible.

[Glorious]

Planning on a spring clean soon, removing programs, defragment, bootvis and tunexp etc. but at the minute about 25 seconds from the BIOS screen.

[kotetsurain]

I really haven't even timed mine, but it's not a very good computer (went into best buy and asked for the cheapest thing they've got). It loads up faster than I've ever seen one load, but it's thoroughly optimised, and doesn't have anything useless on it... and by useless I mean antivirus, antispyware, and firewall. I've never had a need for them at all.

[MightyJordan]

I think my fastest is about 20 seconds. A big improvement over my old PC, which took like a minute to boot up.

[ntbnnt]

My fastest had to be about 20 seconds - I have no antivirus, etc. that starts up and almost no nonessential services and hardly any startup prgms. On average, i boot at about 30 secs.

[DELTETHISACCOUNT]

A good minute.

I remember my old Packard Bell took about 10 minutes to load Windows 98, lol.

[da.pwns]

Depending on what bios screens I have elected to show, SATA/RAID splashes etc, on Vista Ultimate it takes roughly 45 secs.

[MrCobra]

About 45 seconds give or take on XP. Definately under a minute.

[Nightwind Hawk]

About 15-20 seconds from the power button. Windows alone take about 8 seconds from boot screen to fully loaded. XP x64

[Elliot B.]

Roll on hybrid drives :D

[titans8904]

erm... mine takes like a freaking minute and a half...

[redeemed]

From the welcome screen, about 25 seconds until ready to go. + ~7-8 progress bar thingys (in the boot screen)