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I'm just curious what an average boot time would be for Vista? I remember on XP, it would take no more than 30-45 seconds to boot my machine up. On my Vista machine it'll sit at the POST screen for about 30 seconds before starting the boot sequence. Boot time took roughly 1 minute and 15 seconds.
I have quick boot enabled. One thing I did question was my D:\ (storage) was on the SATA 1 port on my motherboard, and the C:\ (boot) drive was on the SATA 2 port on my motherboard. When I say port, I'm talking about there being roughly six ports to plug in SATA cables. Now SATA doesn't use jumpers so if C: is on the second SATA port then it wouldn't really make a difference would it?
With IDE, drives set to slave or on the secondary channel do run slower, but since SATA doesn't have jumpers and both drives are SATA 2.0 (3 Gbps) I'm not sure why it would sit at the POST screen for 30 seconds before booting into Windows.
All my drives are regularily defragged and optimized, so I'm not having any slowdowns in Windows. Just on boot up. Wondering what could be causing it.
Marty Chang
02-03-2009, 06:31 PM
If it's sitting at POST, then it's not Vista that's the issue.
Also, Vista boot times are roughly the same as XP's.
Steve
02-03-2009, 06:40 PM
Also, Vista boot times are roughly the same as XP's.
Give or take 10-15 seconds more when I'm running Vista. As for the POST thing, Jeff... your motherboard maybe having a hard time detecting drive "x" which can of course slow things down.
Could the C:\ drive on that SATA #2 port be the issue? Again, SATA doesn't use jumpers so it wouldn't run slower. I'm not sure what's going on.
Steve
02-03-2009, 06:44 PM
Could the C:\ drive on that SATA #2 port be the issue? Again, SATA doesn't use jumpers so it wouldn't run slower. I'm not sure what's going on.
I suggest doing the basics such as remove all drives but your OS drive to see how fast things will boot. Go from there.
Marty Chang
02-03-2009, 06:46 PM
Give or take 10-15 seconds more when I'm running Vista.
Vista boots up to desktop in about 30 seconds for me. Takes a little while to warm up, but that's just my crap.
Also, do what Steve said. This sounds more like a drive conflict issue.
Steve
02-03-2009, 06:48 PM
Vista boots up to desktop in about 30 seconds for me. Takes a little while to warm up, but that's just my crap.
Man that's pretty good :)
Seems I had an extra hard drive during the boot sequence. Still takes roughly a minute to boot up. Guess that's not that bad. I have heard of some people having two minute boot up times.
You guys don't run SSD's do you? I heard those are like instant boot ups. Can't drop a bunch of money on one though.
I took off the logo from the boot screen. Basically it listed my CPU, then stopped for about 5 seconds. Then it continued to list the rest of the devices. RAM and all that stuff. Watched some boot times on Youtube and some can get it to boot in 45 seconds or less.
Steve
02-03-2009, 06:56 PM
Seems I had an extra hard drive during the boot sequence. Still takes roughly a minute to boot up. Guess that's not that bad. I have heard of some people having two minute boot up times.
You guys don't run SSD's do you? I heard those are like instant boot ups. Can't drop a bunch of money on one though.
SSD are a waste of cash at this point in time. However, it's the future. Have you unplugged all of your drives but the OS drive?
No I haven't gotten a chance to do that yet.
peoplessi
02-03-2009, 07:21 PM
Around 35 seconds, give or take. Windows 7 takes about the same, no differences there.
Marty Chang
02-03-2009, 07:21 PM
Man that's pretty good :)
It's a fairly new install (upgraded to x64 last month), but I go from bootup to desktop in about 30 seconds. Takes another 30 for my IMs, my antivirus, Steam, and my drivers to load. But thanks. :3
Seems I had an extra hard drive during the boot sequence. Still takes roughly a minute to boot up. Guess that's not that bad. I have heard of some people having two minute boot up times.
You guys don't run SSD's do you? I heard those are like instant boot ups. Can't drop a bunch of money on one though.
I took off the logo from the boot screen. Basically it listed my CPU, then stopped for about 5 seconds. Then it continued to list the rest of the devices. RAM and all that stuff. Watched some boot times on Youtube and some can get it to boot in 45 seconds or less.
You might want to root around in your BIOS for an option to turn off verbose POSTs, or something of that nature. Should be in an Advanced BIOS section. You can make the POST skip memory tests and other stuff to streamline the process.
Phayzon
02-03-2009, 07:30 PM
Id say about 30 seconds or so, just like XP. Also, just like XP it takes a while to actually use due to all my crap that loads in startup and whatnot.
TerminX
02-03-2009, 07:33 PM
Heh, POST memory tests are more or less useless anyway. Unless your RAM has been physically damaged in some obvious way it's pretty unlikely they'll ever fail. I don't think I've seen that test fail since the P2/P3 days when you'd get DIMMs that were actually incompatible with certain chipsets.
Before I waste a half hour fiddling around in my case, does it make a difference whether the boot drive is on the SATA 1 or SATA 2 ports? Not talking speeds here, each motherboard usually has around 6 SATA ports where you plug those red data cables into. Since SATA doesn't use jumpers, I don't think it'll slow down. Then again, I'm not sure.
Phayzon
02-03-2009, 08:07 PM
I doubt itll make much difference, my Vista drive is SATA1 and my storage drive (which has since been partitioned and contains Windows7) is SATA0. Theres no major holdup, as far as the BIOS knows, I have 10 OSs per drive or none at all.
Boot times decreased by roughly 25 seconds. That's odd. Swapped the SATA cables so the boot drive was on SATA port 1.
Scotty
02-03-2009, 08:24 PM
I've got my boot drive on SATA 0 and my backup drive on SATA 1.
At any rate, Vista boot times (and to a lesser extent, XP) are artificially sped up, as services continue to load after the logon screen comes up. As this makes the computer slow and laggy for the first few minutes (and causes half of the tray icons to not come up with XP), I usually wait until the hard drive light isn't on solid before logging on.
As Vista indexes everything, the hard drive light never seems to go completely off with Vista. :eek:
Phayzon
02-03-2009, 08:32 PM
Boot times decreased by roughly 25 seconds. That's odd. Swapped the SATA cables so the boot drive was on SATA port 1.
Boot time as in the XP/Vista splash screen, or POST? If its splash, alright you got me there... If it POST, check to see which SATA is trying to boot first, perhaps its trying to boot to your storage drive first, failing, then moving onto the OS drive.
Boot time as in the XP/Vista splash screen, or POST? If its splash, alright you got me there... If it POST, check to see which SATA is trying to boot first, perhaps its trying to boot to your storage drive first, failing, then moving onto the OS drive.
Before it was set to the C: to boot first as always, but it was on SATA 2. If the D: boots, I would get a disk boot failure error because there isn't an OS on the D: drive only files. Makes sense. Thing was the C: drive's cable was on SATA port 2 before, and now it's on port 1. Since the switch, the boot time from the time I push the power button to the time I hit the login screen is roughly 50-55 seconds. Before it was 1 minute 15 seconds.
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