Bootup times

[daaaaab]

I saw the Behind the scenes video, with the Crazy Russian & B-Flex, and the said that the bootup time with their rig, from pushing the button, was about 12 seconds, on a MSI mother board and a Kingston SSD.

My question was: "I NEED to know, how did you manage 12 sec start up, I also have a MSI board, a MSI 990XA GD55 with an AMD FX6300 and an A-data SX900, it takes like 40-45 seconds to start up. It takes about 35 seconds to finish with the BIOS load. Are there some settings? I want faster bootup. Thanks!"

The Russian (I think) sent me here to you guys.

The times i wrote are from the top of my head I timed about 3 months ago. I could do some new tests and write exactly but the difference is too big to require something like that. Ideas?

Thank you!

[darksoulinside]

I saw the Behind the scenes video' date=' with the Crazy Russian & B-Flex, and the said that the bootup time with their rig, from pushing the button, was about 12 seconds, on a MSI mother board and a Kingston SSD. My question was: "I NEED to know, how did you manage 12 sec start up, I also have a MSI board, a MSI 990XA GD55 with an AMD FX6300 and an A-data SX900, it takes like 40-45 seconds to start up. It takes about 35 seconds to finish with the BIOS load. Are there some settings? I want faster bootup. Thanks!" The Russian (I think) sent me here to you guys. The times i wrote are from the top of my head I timed about 3 months ago. I could do some new tests and write exactly but the difference is too big to require something like that. Ideas? Thank you!

some huge programs autorun on startup? //cuz even my old crappy hhd ~130gb starts more faster...

[CadillacVic]

If you wanna achieve those boot times you need an SSD (Solid State Drive). I guarantee they are using SSD's in there rigs. My boot time for my SSD is about 12-15 seconds as well. The speed of an SSD is phenomenal.

[AJRicho]

Yeah ssd will be needed. You can use msconfig to change what programa boot with your pc. Also you can tell it the number of processes to use and whether or not it needs to but the windows logo screen.

Windows 8 tends to boot fast than windows 7 cause it use a new hybrid but which kinda uses a hibernate system in the shutdown process.

[SubTract]

Fast SSD, fresh install of windows on the SSD not cloned onto an SSD.

I get about 10-12 seconds for windows 8 on an Intel 520 240GB.

[eshbop]

The OP is using an SSD, which isn't the problem. The problem is the long BIOS post times.Not sure why that would be though, maybe reset your BIOS to default & turn off features in the BIOS you don't use, may help to some extent.

[mgsstar]

Look in your bios to see if there is a skip bios splash and set your SSD at the highest boot priority. Go to msconfig and go to boot and check "No GUI Boot" to not show the windows 7 booting splash screen.

[CadillacVic]

The OP is using an SSD' date=' which isn't the problem. The problem is the long BIOS post times.Not sure why that would be though, maybe reset your BIOS to default & turn off features in the BIOS you don't use, may help to some extent.[/quote'] WOW I didn't even see that...sry about that. Now is this just happening during boot? When your loading Windows 7 Desktop is that pretty much instant?

[GoodBytes]

When you are measuring Windows startup, you have to exclude the BIOS time... because if you want the fastest BIOS boot time, you need the more bare bone motherboard. BIOS scans your hardware one by one... so the crappier your motherboard the fastest it will be. That is why OEM systems boots faster than our custom build computers.

UEFI aims at changing this:

-> Ability to scan your hardware simultaneously

-> Able to communicate with the hardware to get their specs info, without the need to scan them

-> All information collected is sent to the supported OS (Windows 8), where it will simply take the info and start the needed drivers. BIOS and the OS didn't communicate with each other before, so Windows had to rescan your hardware again.

How to get "instant boot" (~6sec) from power On to Windows desktop

1- Fast SSD, preferably a synchronous base SSD but not a must.

2- SATA controller set to AHCI mode

3- HPET enabled and set to 64-bit (this option might not be available)

4- Fast Boot enabled in the UEFI

5- CMS disabled in UEFI

6- A motherboard with FULL UEFI support (no part support, nor hybrid-UEFI.. it needs to be full support at 100%)

7- Windows 8 (Windows 8 is the only Windows that fully support UEFI)

8- GOP ready graphic card (contact your graphic card manufacture for a firmware update to make it GOP, please note that depending on your manufacture, your card might not feature an upgradable firmware OR the firmware chip might not be big enough to support GOP ready firmware. Also, once upgraded to GOP, the graphic card will no longer work on a normal BIOS).

Notes:

-> startup programs don't really mater because you have an SSD, as long as you don't have too many, you are fine... like 5-6 items I would say is the max I would go.

-> A/V. Many A/V does a virus scan on your system DURING the boot process on boot files. This drastically slows your boot time. Use lighter and less aggressive A/V solutions, like Microsoft Security Essential (built-in Windows 8), and do safe web surfing practices.

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[daaaaab]

The OP is using an SSD' date=' which isn't the problem. The problem is the long BIOS post times.Not sure why that would be though, maybe reset your BIOS to default & turn off features in the BIOS you don't use, may help to some extent.[/quote']

Thanks for letting them know. Sorry guys I didn't think to write that the A-data SX900 is an SSD (fast one too).

So, BIOS was reset a couple of time for various reasons, nothing changed, I guess GoodBytes is right, about when to start measuring, but the guys in the clip said from button push. Excluding BIOS load, mine also takes about 10~15 seconds.

About fast boot in the BIOS, get this, there is a driver or something for msi, from msi, but it says "board does not support".

Thank you for your help.

[Helepolis]

*cough cough*

http://linustechtips.com/main/forum/news-reviews-article-guides/guides-and-tutorials/32848-a-quick-guide-to-a-quicker-startup

[daaaaab]

*cough cough*

http://linustechtips.com/main/forum/news-reviews-article-guides/guides-and-tutorials/32848-a-quick-guide-to-a-quicker-startup

Good stuff, but pretty basic for me, as I already had all of them set up right for speed.

But thank you!