How long does it take your pc to boot..?

GunJack

Desktop:
semperon 3000+
2GB DDR RAM
80 GB hdd
XP
USB wireless adapter

about 1min 10sec to useable desktop, connected to network and loading a webpage (but it is 5-ish yrs old )

Laptop:
Dual Core 1.73MHz
2GB DDR2 RAM
80GB hdd
Vista
internal wifi

seems to take forever before the hdd stops thrashing but I blame the OS. Prob 2 mins to get to loading a webpage.

GunJack

4743hudsonj wrote: »

Sony Vaio FW31J
Core 2 duo T6400 @2GHZ clock
256mb dedicated graphics
4ggb DDR2 RAM
400gbHDD

Quite proud of that as its only modest spec, just like keeping it clean.

yours is bigger than mine

lucylucky

TBH not a clue as my machines are never switched off

S0litaire

My boot time is 29.89 seconds (according to BootChart)
HP 550 2Ghz Celeron Laptop
1Gb ram
Ubuntu 10.10
120Gb HDD

esuhl

Interesting... I have two boot managers to contend with and a pointless "press any key" message from the IDE controller, but hitting the keys as quick as I can...:

Arch Linux - 45s
Windows 7 - 50s
Windows XP - 65s

I'm sure that should be faster on a Core i7 920 with 6GB RAM...

S0litaire

esuhl wrote: »

Interesting... I have two boot managers to contend with and a pointless "press any key" message from the IDE controller, but hitting the keys as quick as I can...:

Arch Linux - 45s
Windows 7 - 50s
Windows XP - 65s

I'm sure that should be faster on a Core i7 920 with 6GB RAM...

The bottle neck is your HDD (IDE or SATA)
To get below 19 seconds usually you require a SSD

esuhl

S0litaire wrote: »

The bottle neck is your HDD (IDE or SATA)
To get below 19 seconds usually you require a SSD

That makes sense - it drags my "Windows performance" score down to 5.9! I think an SSD (or a couple in a RAID array) will be my next upgrade... when I'm feeling rich!

xbrenx

Desktop

80G HD
448 MB Ram
Windows XP

I think about 10-15 minutes.
(Sent letter to Father Christmas for some shiny new RAM this year )

spud17

Old clunker which runs my website 6mins 45 secs, that includes typing in the password. Insert joke, 10,000 characters in password, :rotfl:

That does include CCleaner, Avira and WAMP.

22 seconds to load IE8.

Plus side is, it only uses 30w sitting there, and in any case it is not running 24/7.

banger9365

my main pc is 40 seconds, half of that is bio's(rebooting)

main pc spec
gigabbyte x58 ud5
6GB ram
two ATI 5850's
intel i7 920 @ 4GHZ
and two 500Gb samsung f3's in raid
and a 64GB ssd
win 7 pro
(and it water cooled)

laptop 20 seconds (rebooting)
laptop spec
C2D t7250 2GHZ
2GB ram
64GB ssd
win 7 HP