how long does it take for your computer to boot up?

how long does it take your computer to boot up to window

  • 10 seconds or under

    Votes: 2 3.1%

  • 10-20 seconds

    Votes: 12 18.8%

  • 20-30 seconds

    Votes: 11 17.2%

  • 30-35 seconds

    Votes: 12 18.8%

  • 35-40 seconds

    Votes: 8 12.5%

  • 40-45 seconds

    Votes: 1 1.6%

  • 45-50 seconds

    Votes: 2 3.1%

  • 50-60 seconds

    Votes: 3 4.7%

  • 1 min or more

    Votes: 13 20.3%

  • doesn't boot up at all!!!

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Total voters
    64
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Charles_Lee

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i thought i would post this threat under "hard drives"
because i think the hard drives actually matter when it comes to spead for turning on your comuter.
well I have raptor hard drive, that might give me some adventage.
 
sometimes mine will take 30-35 seconds but other times 4-5 minutes i dont know whats up with it. you think it might be a hard drive problem? the drive is brand new.
 
Which computer? My macintosh takes about 25-35 seconds which isn't too bad really... My laptop, probably 30-40 at 800MHz. I could drop it a bit if I got rid of my other wifi and clocking program.
 
Yea

That's a good point indeed. My computer gets to Windows real fast but then the antivirus, firewall and other essential apps slow it down.

JAN :D
 
mine is just really weird at the moment, it will take like 30 secs to load up to a point where it appears to be done, it is using 0% processor according to task manager, and just sits there fro around a minute, then continues loading, it is really annoying me, and i can't figure out what it is, so in total it is probably around 1 minute 40 secs
 
about 30-40 seconds for me. WHen i get to desktop theres no CPU usage but it will only load apps about 10 seconds later.
 
Ku-sama said:
8 seconds on average :P
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Time it from when you press power until your desktop is fully loaded. 8 seconds is highly unlikely :P

But if your counting how many seconds the XP splash screen is there, well the blue bar makes it across once and then its done. Probably 3-4 seconds going by that
 
8 seconds of windows loading, about 15 with bios, ill need to optimize that... but i tested a SATAII harddrive like the one im waiting for.... XP bar took about two passes.... not even in RAID :P, and im getting two of them in RAID0
 
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Including post? My board takes a long time before it actualy loads the OS, then windows takes about 19 seconds (damn slow I know). But I do have norton installed which is a system hog. Then the black screen before login last for like another 4 seconds... I dont really know why its so slow, but once in windows its fine.
 
I have a seriously large amount of programmes load on startup. I just timed it from pressing the power button to no cpu activity - 2.5 mins :eek:

Windows loading screen is only on for about 5 seconds, my bios takes longer, to detect my SATA's etc. When windows loads the hard drive is thrashing for an age, even with it fully degragmented...
 
10-20 seconds for my 2.6.15 kernel. Less than 10 for init="/dev/null" (Technically, the kernel is the operating system, so it's booted ;))

Windows is probally around 10-20 seconds too.
 
Ku-sama said:
8 seconds of windows loading, about 15 with bios, ill need to optimize that... but i tested a SATAII harddrive like the one im waiting for.... XP bar took about two passes.... not even in RAID :P, and im getting two of them in RAID0
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My xp loading bar only goes across about 1/2 :P and thats with normal SATA HDD it's the rest of the xp & bios that takes ages
 
I wish when I got my RMA back from Maxtor they sent me a 10 series not a 9, at least it was a drive that was 50GB bigger :D

Im booting off my 160GB WD IDE drive. Bar goes lil more then once, Im happy its quick bootup, maybe I should put windows on my Raptor ;)
 
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