Gaming How fast does ur comp turn on/off?

[da_head]

4 sec: xp sp3 with ASrock instantboot

what the wtf?! is this safe hardware wise? (for my laptop)

hmm but i have a password on start up though..

 

[Lee79]

You need a Asrock motherboard that supports its so i don't think it will work on your laptop. It is just Microsoft's Hibernate mode boosted
Edit: Too get a 4 sec boot when you shut down the PC it has to Reboot, Start windows, Enable Instant Boot and then shut down again so your shutdown time doubles which they did not show on the video.

http://www.asrock.com/feature/InstantBoot/index.asp

 

[da_head]

does this included bios boot up or as soon as you see the logo/loading bar?
um i counted from the time to i pressed the power button, to the time where windows loaded up and went idle (not counting putting in the password)

QUOTE(Lee79 @ Jan 18 2009, 10:46 AM) You need a Asrock motherboard that supports its so i don't think it will work on your laptop. It is just Microsoft's Hibernate mode boosted
http://www.asrock.com/feature/InstantBoot/index.asp

ahh ok.

 

[xcalibur]

About 30 seconds for my eeepc. 2 minutes for my desktop at home. A minute for the dells in the internet cafe and 45 seconds for the NEC's.

 

[Shakraka]

Running XP Professional SP2, boots up around 20-30 seconds and shuts down from 10-20 seconds.

 

[juggernaut911]

Almost instantly, thanks to it being a mac and not having some bios related crap to go through. Turn on, apple logo pops up, boots in about 20 seconds.

oh whats this my eee skips all the bios crap too its called boot booster

i don't keep up on features of random netbooks so i wasn't aware of this. nice that pc users are getting interesting features.

Yeah. I like how Mac users got that cool Time Machine thingy. Isn't AWESOME and ORIGINAL DrK? Just so original... like not anything like shadow copy that's been around since W2000... This is Mac, Time machine is waaaaay original and inovative. It's not like Apple stole that idea, gave it a lame interface, new gay name, and released it as their own. That would be ridiculous!!

Who could ever accuse of such a thing?!

Moral of the non-biased story: People "innovate" by stealing other peoples ideas but with something changed just enough to make it look or feel fresh. "Mac did the GUI first" my brother, a hardcore mac-fanboy cries. I'm the bigger man but wasn't Microsoft doing all this stuff first? Like Apple has been stealing ideas, I mean "innovating" from the beginning?

People steal. Get used to it.





Power up with super duper 10.2 gigawatt PSU: -100 sec
Shut down with super duper 10.2 gigawatt PSU: it was already shutdown when I thought about clicking "Shut Down"

PS: EEE isn't a random netbook. Wait till apple innovates on that!

"OMGZ!!! made from one peice of aluminum foilz with teh intel rocket ship elevendy4 cores and 128TB of DDR >9000RAM! All for just your soul and allegiance!

El Fin

 

[KDH]

From grub to login prompt on Debian GNU/Linux:

Laptop:
Cold Boot: 18 seconds
Shutdown: 12 seconds
Suspend to Disk: 7 seconds
Resume: 3 seconds

Desktop:
Cold Boot: 35 seconds
Shutdown 16 seconds

From grub to desktop on WinXP:

Desktop:
Cold Boot: 40 seconds
Shutdown: 19 seconds


Both BIOS are set up to wait 3 seconds, and grub waits indefinitely.

 

[Twiffles]

Vista Desk:
Start Up: 46 Sec
Shut Down: 13 sec

1999 Gateway Laptop XP (lol):
Start up: 32 sec (TinyXP Beast Edition FTW)
Shut Down: 10 sec

Broken Latop booting Ubuntu Live:
Start Up: 13 min (WIN)
Shut Down: 1 sec

 

[Raestloz]

Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate Service Pack 1
Desktop PC
Windows Aero enabled
Windows DreamScene disabled

Total start-up items: 16 items
-Windows Defender
-HD Audio Control Panel
-RealTek Voice Manager
-Folder Lock Box
-Nero SecurDisc Client
-Nero AG InCD
-nVIDIA Compatible Windows Vista Display Driver, v178.13
-nVIDIA Media Center Library
-UberIcon
-RocketDock
-Active Wallpaper Changer
-Windows Sidebar
-Windows Media Player Network Configuration
-Yahoo! Messenger
-Opera Internet Browser
-Kaspersky Internet Security 2009

Graphics Card: nVIDIA GeForce 7200 SE 256 MB (idk, they say Vista uses gfx card to run Aero, I activated it, so does it affect the "entering Vista environment" part?)

Primary Storage: V-Gen 2Gigabyte

Processor: Intel® Core™2 Duo E4600 @2.40GHz

Windows Secondary Storage: 98.7 Gigabyte free of 181 Gigabyte (some says this stats affect your performance, is that true? anyway I put it here as consideration)

Turn on speed:

From the moment I pressed "power" button: around 20 secs
------ BIOS load: around 5 secs
------ Windows bootscreen: around 10 secs
------ Windows Welcome screen: around 5 secs (Vista orb splash screen takes around 3 secs)
------ Actually entered Vista OS environment: around 20 secs total
------ Loading start-up items: around 2 minutes
------------Other stuffs(Windows Defender, nVIDIA utilities, like that): around 35 secs
------------ Kaspersky Internet Security 2009: around a minute and 15 secs
------------ Actually able to use my computer: around 2 minutes and 25 secs after I pressed "power" button

turn off speed:

From the moment I clicked "Shutdown" menu: around 20 secs
------ Shutting down applications: 3 secs
------ Shutdown screen: 17 secs
------------Running application shutdown(too lazy to click that red "X" button") : additional 4 secs
------Total estimated shutdown time: around 25 secs

restart speed:
From the moment I clicked "restart" menu: just combine them... around 2 minutes

I'd say that's one comprehensive and complete information, is it not? lol....

Oh, and Broken Skye, how come that Ubuntu can shutdown in one sec? That's totally, liek, awesome!

 

[roguetrip]

anyone ever use the reg tweaks for faster shutdown, here is a decent reg file for overall tweaking, works in vista and W7 7k beta

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\AllFilesystemObjects\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\Copy To]
@="{C2FBB630-2971-11D1-A18C-00C04FD75D13}"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\AllFilesystemObjects\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\Move To]
@="{C2FBB631-2971-11D1-A18C-00C04FD75D13}"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Drive\shell\cmd]
"Extended"=-

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\cmd]
"Extended"=-

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Notepad]
"StatusBar"=dword:00000001

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Notepad]
"fWrap"=dword:00000001

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop]
"ForegroundLockTimeout"=dword:00000000
"AutoEndTasks"="1"
"HungAppTimeout"="1000"
"MenuShowDelay"="8"
"WaitToKillAppTimeout"="1000"
"LowLevelHooksTimeout"="1000"

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer]
"NoLowDiskSpaceChecks"=dword:00000001
"LinkResolveIgnoreLinkInfo"=dword:00000001
"NoResolveSearch"=dword:00000001
"NoResolveTrack"=dword:00000001
"NoInternetOpenWith"=dword:00000001

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control]
"WaitToKillServiceTimeout"="1000"

[-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\RemoteComputer]

Copy in text viewer and save as tweaker.reg then double click file and apply, reboot and enjoy!

 

[Prime]

Windows Vista Ultimate SP1:

From pressing power button to desktop idle: 40 Seconds. (Most of that time is from getting to the splash screen of vista, From the splash screen to the idle desktop is short)
From selecting Shut Down to complete shut down: 13 Seconds

Don't time it, so I wouldn't know.
Turn off: Never, it never happens
Or instant, holding the power button

That isn't safe.

QUOTE(roguetrip @ Jan 23 2009, 02:06 AM) anyone ever use the reg tweaks for faster shutdown, here is a decent reg file for overall tweaking, works in vista and W7 7k beta

Copy in text viewer and save as tweaker.reg then double click file and apply, reboot and enjoy!

Ok, I don't know much about reg tweaks. I can see it changes the WaitToKillService to 1000. What else does it do?

Y'know posting a reg tweak and not explaining what it does isn't very helpful.

 

[nin10do]

Vista:

About 20 seconds to turn on
8 seconds to turn off

how the faak do you get such speed?

mine takes 2mins 26secs to power up

and over 45secs to shut down.

i too have vista.

right after i press the power button the screen stays black for a realllllllly long time before the vista logo finally comes up.
after i enter my password it takes another good minute just to load everything. and i've only got light progs on start up,,, no sidebar etc.

 

[Skyline969]

Vista:

About 20 seconds to turn on
8 seconds to turn off

how the faak do you get such speed?

mine takes 2mins 26secs to power up

and over 45secs to shut down.

i too have vista.

right after i press the power button the screen stays black for a realllllllly long time before the vista logo finally comes up.
after i enter my password it takes another good minute just to load everything. and i've only got light progs on start up,,, no sidebar etc.

To get that speed it's all about the processor and RAM. For Vista, you need at least 2 gigs of RAM in my opinion. 1 gig just slows everything down. As for me, I have a dual-core processor, 2 GHz in each core. My boot time is roughly 15 seconds and my shutdown time ranges from 10 seconds to a minute. It depends on how many applications I close (like iTunes and MSN) before shutting down the computer.

 

[Canonbeat234]

On: Depends if it wants to go PMS on me
Off: Lol wut? Oh yeah within a few days...I cut it off and it takes about 1 hour or so.

 

[anandjones]

30 seconds on. 10 seconds off. Vista.

 

[nin10do]

Vista:

About 20 seconds to turn on
8 seconds to turn off

how the faak do you get such speed?

mine takes 2mins 26secs to power up

and over 45secs to shut down.

i too have vista.

right after i press the power button the screen stays black for a realllllllly long time before the vista logo finally comes up.
after i enter my password it takes another good minute just to load everything. and i've only got light progs on start up,,, no sidebar etc.

To get that speed it's all about the processor and RAM. For Vista, you need at least 2 gigs of RAM in my opinion. 1 gig just slows everything down. As for me, I have a dual-core processor, 2 GHz in each core. My boot time is roughly 15 seconds and my shutdown time ranges from 10 seconds to a minute. It depends on how many applications I close (like iTunes and MSN) before shutting down the computer.

i have exactly the same amount of ram and core speed. :S. going to try a bios update and hope that helps.

 

[Satangel]

I have Vista 64bit, and 4GB RAM.
Also a Q6600 so that helps a bit

And I have 2 500GB HD's in RAID0, so they work much faster.

 

[R2DJ]

Turning on: 40 seconds

Turning off: 30 seconds - much better than 3 minutes. Like 2 months ago, it took 3 minutes to see the "Logging off..." message.

 

[jalaneme]

everything takes AGES on my crappy computer.

 

[Skyline969]

Without that Instant Boot, essentially wouldn't you just click start and hit Hibernate? On any computer running Vista that seems like the wise thing to do as hibernation uses little to no power. Upon returning from hibernation, you skip fully loading Windows, programs, etc, so would that not make "shutdown" and "boot" times a lot shorter? I guess it would really depend on your hard drive's speed as hibernation saves everything in the RAM on your hard drive and then almost completely powers down. I don't know what mine is, but I'm guessing around 5400 RPM. I'll test hibernation and get back to you all.