Oliver said:
Hi my Windows XP-Professional installed on a Laptop is very slow at booting.
Is there a reference somewhere how to configure the machine to speed up the
booting?
Thanks for any help
Regards Oliver
If you're comfortable with the BIOS, check the following settings (you
may not have all of these settings in yours).
Excerpted from Adrian's Rojak Pot <
http://www.rojakpot.com>
These may help your boot time
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<32-bit Disk Access>: Enabled.
<32-bit Transfer Mode>: Enabled.
<Boot Sequence>: Hard drive first.
<Boot-up Floppy Seek>: Disabled.
<CPU Level {1,2,3} Cache>: Enabled!!
<Delay IDE Initial> (goes by many names): 0.
<Quick Boot / Quick Power-On Self-Test>: Enabled!!
<Primary/Secondary Master/Slave DMA>: Enable all four.
<Ultra DMA Mode>: Auto.
These should be enabled for maximum performance, too
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<16-bit IO Recovery>: NA.
<8-bit IO Recovery>: NA.
<Athlon 4 SSED Instruction>: Enabled.
<CPU to PCI Post Write>: Enabled.
<CPU to PCI Write Buffer>: Enabled.
<FPU OPCODE Compatible Mode>: Disabled.
<Gate A20 Option>: Fast.
<Hyper-Threading>: Enabled. Must also enable <APIC Function>.
<IDE Bus Mastering>: Enabled.
<IDE HDD Block Mode>: Enabled.
<Keyboard Controller Input Clock Select>: 16 MHz (or the fastest one)
<PCI/IDE Bus Mastering>: Enabled.
<System BIOS Cacheable>,
<System BIOS Shadowing>,
<Video BIOS Cacheable>,
<Video BIOS Shadowing>: Disabled. Windows XP bypasses the BIOSes and
uses hardware directly, so there's no need to cache the BIOSes,
especially not in a processor's precious L2 cache. Video RAM shadowing
is just a waste as well.
<Video RAM Caching>: Disabled, unless you work in Safe Mode a lot and
need a little extra performance.
