Startup time

JakAttack

JakAttack

Resident Metalhead
Staff member
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We can check your BIOS settings and msconfig for you remotely if you wish, you have to remember though, 1 minute for a bootup is still very quick, and we're talking about shaving seconds off for no real gain other than to say "wow look at that", I mean, some guy overtook me in the same car (same age too) as me and I couldn't accelerate fast enough to catch up to him, but I'm not going to start tinkering just to get from 0-60 faster ;)
 
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DanW

Active member
Thank Jak
I guess tweaking the settings you mention above wont make a lot of difference then, probably not worth worrying?
Can you shed any light on the reason for the startup time though? I would just like to understand, how it is possible for a 2.4ghz i5 laptop (no SSD) to startup in half the time of my 3.4ghz i7 system?
 
JakAttack

JakAttack

Resident Metalhead
Staff member
Moderator
Laptops are minute creatures and have a quarter of the startup procedures of a Pc, if that. Go into a PC BIOS and a laptop BIOS, the PC BIOS will have 30 odd pages of changeable settings, maybe 2-3 storage controllers, editable network controllers, overclock controllers, and all the other onboard devices, used or not, they are active, on the laptop you might be able to select the hard drive priority, and possibly a couple of other things but that is it, also most laptops have custom made BIOS/POST setups with absolute minimum settings and checks on startup, allowing for an instaboot.

Example, my mums new Pentium Dual core laptop, bottom end, starts in 45 seconds, but it couldn't run a game to save it's life, my own behemoth, OC'ed i7, 6Gb 1600MHz RAM on a Velociraptor, takes about 1:30-2:00 minutes to start up, but runs fast as hell in games, which is what I want it to do, and everything else on it is tip top, a faster bootup is nice, but at the end of the day, as long as it starts within a minute or two, it's fast and it works, and most companies would tell you it is simply not a fault or an issue and to stop wasting their time (well.. maybe only the more faceless companies).

We can have a look through your BIOS (if I reset my CMOS, it takes 3 minutes to start up due to 2 additional Marvell controllers for SAS and IDE pop up on startup and wait for disk detection) and disable any rubbish you're not using or isn't needed, save it, and see where it gets us to.

Just so everyone knows, I'm not having a go, it is just a common misconception that modern systems should be booting up in mere seconds! :)
 
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DanW

Active member
Thanks Jak, that really helps.
Makes perfect sense when someone explains the various factors involved.
 
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