Boot Up Time?

[Guest]

How long does you system take to boot up?

Mine: HP Pavilion dv9500t with 2.2 Duo, 2GB RAM and 160GB drive, Intel 965M
graphics chipset, WiFi, bluetooth, internet security with boot protection and
4 items on my sidebar. Plus, my HP printer has this 'Digital Imaging
Monitor' thing I can't seem to get rid off and still use my printer which
also is part of the start up.

Time from pressing power button to "ready to go' is : ~3 minutes (180 seconds)

To me that seems excessive, no?

Everything else works very quick, Outlook 2007 takes less than 5 seconds
from click to receiving mail and even a 150 MB/120 page Word doc only takes
15 seconds to load from click to ready to edit (that's without Word already
being started and a virus scan).

So why is my boot time so long, or is it?

What kind of time do the rest of you see?

 

[Victek]

How long does you system take to boot up?

Mine: HP Pavilion dv9500t with 2.2 Duo, 2GB RAM and 160GB drive, Intel
965M
graphics chipset, WiFi, bluetooth, internet security with boot protection
and
4 items on my sidebar. Plus, my HP printer has this 'Digital Imaging
Monitor' thing I can't seem to get rid off and still use my printer which
also is part of the start up.

Time from pressing power button to "ready to go' is : ~3 minutes (180
seconds)

To me that seems excessive, no?

Everything else works very quick, Outlook 2007 takes less than 5 seconds
from click to receiving mail and even a 150 MB/120 page Word doc only
takes
15 seconds to load from click to ready to edit (that's without Word
already
being started and a virus scan).

So why is my boot time so long, or is it?

What kind of time do the rest of you see?

Compared with my machine I would say it's about right. Keep in mind that
Vista does drive indexing, plus there's disk activity related to SuperFetch
and ReadyBoost. There are also your own third party applications set to
load at Startup. At what point are you considering the boot up finished?
My system becomes responsive to mouse input at a certain point, but the hard
drive goes on for another minute or two before the system becomes quiet.

 

[John Barnett MVP]

I have a 2.8Ghz processor and 1.5GB RAM and I should say, without actually
timing it to the second, that my startup time matches yours. Strangely I
used to be a stickler for timing my machine but I found that 'watching' the
machine boot seemed to take much longer than I expected. Now I push the
start button, wait for the logon screen, logon and then walk away and do
something else, even if it means making a quick coffee. By the time you get
back the PC is ready for use
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[Guest]

Thanks for the responses, I tried booting with as few start up programs as
possible and it only saved less than 1 minute.

I consider 'ready to go' the point at which all taskbar items, sidebar items
and all start menu items are accessible and functional. The hard drive does
flicker away for a few seconds more after that.

I guess I should be happy my old Dell with XP took a calender to measure.

 

[Victek]

Thanks for the responses, I tried booting with as few start up programs as

possible and it only saved less than 1 minute.

I consider 'ready to go' the point at which all taskbar items, sidebar
items
and all start menu items are accessible and functional. The hard drive
does
flicker away for a few seconds more after that.

I guess I should be happy my old Dell with XP took a calender to measure.

FWIW, since upgrading to Vista I just leave my computer ON all day and put
it into sleep mode when I'm not using it. The new "deep sleep" turns off
all the cooling fans so I don't mind leaving it on. I would have done this
with XP, but the sleep mode wasn't as effective and reliable as Vista.

 

[Guest]

My computer takes around that time frame to boot and sometimes it takes
longer. For a little while, the computer stayed on the splash screen for 4
seconds! No lie. But, it only boots like that when the CD rom is going to
be knocked out of the system due to registry problems.

After I clear up the CDROM issues, the computer has stablizes a little bit,
but takes 3x longer than it did when I had XP on the computer.

 

[Marjay]

What exactly is deep sleep??

FWIW, since upgrading to Vista I just leave my computer ON all day and put
it into sleep mode when I'm not using it. The new "deep sleep" turns off
all the cooling fans so I don't mind leaving it on. I would have done this
with XP, but the sleep mode wasn't as effective and reliable as Vista.

 

[Travis King]

That sounds about right. That's about how long it takes for my system to be
ready to go with everything in the sidebar loaded and the like.

AMD Sempron 2800+ OC'd @ 1.99GHz
1.5GB PC-2700 DDR RAM
120GB PATA WD 7200RPM 8MB Cache HD
Ati Radeon X1600PRO 256MB GDDR2

 

[Paul Smith]

What exactly is deep sleep??

Also known as S3 suspend.

The system is powered off, other than the RAM (so you can resume within 2 or
3 seconds).

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[Marjay]

I assume that must be set as the type of "sleep" in the BIOS so that
it knows to turn off the fans...

 

[Victek]

I assume that must be set as the type of "sleep" in the BIOS so that
it knows to turn off the fans...

In my case it just worked that way, but if it doesn't then there usually is
a BIOS option where you can select different sleep modes.