[GEMINGA]

Quote:

Originally posted by NEO something must be wrong with mine system (I partritioned the hd and install o/s into one small-4GB partition)

How many periferals are connected. Having printers daisy chained (serial) thru other components (i.e. zip drive, external drives...).

Also, try changing the boot setup in your bios settings.
Ensure FASTBOOT is enabled.
Ensure that DMA is turned on in your hard drives prpoerty settings.

 

[aos]

My P4 2.4G overclocked to 3.0GHz (haven't done that for a few years because I didn't want to deal with heat/noise) with WD 80G (8MB buffer) drive and fresh W2K install takes about 45 seconds to be ready to use (it's autologin). Machine has only drivers and OS updates installed and its only use is gaming. I was so fed up with long startup times of my AMD XP 1800+ that I decided I want another machine without all the crap (office, email, PCB design software, CDR software, ICQ, cameras, ipod, messenger, you name it). I also run Linux on this one (P4) occasionally. P4 is also much faster for MP3 encoding when I need to add more music to the iPod (that's one of few extra things I allowed on it).

 

[blessingx]

How many programs (even simple monitors) are launching during boot? If you're using "until the harddrive stops" as the measurement, that question is pretty important.

 

[dngl]

pentium 2, 400mhz, 256 mb sd133 ram about 45 seconds to fully boot. running winxp w/litestep, bootvis, and service tweaks.

 

[bralack42]

Mine takes about 30 or so seconds to get to the user screen (I'm in Win.XP). Now the thing that takes forever on my systems is shutting down! It seems to be Windows XP, as on my other XP box it also takes quite a long time to shutdown/restart.

 

[Sol_Zhen]

Go into the start up config and disable all the clients that you don't need to start on startup.

My p4, xp box starts up in about 30 to 40 seconds.

You probably have a lot of unnecessary clients loading on startup.

Also, you should defrag your drive and partitions on a regular basis. Especially if you download a lot of things.

 

[ProFingerSk8er]

P4 2.26GHz clocked to 2.60GHz, 512 pc2700 DDr ram, windows xp pro.....abou 15 seconds

 

[bootman]

Quote:

Originally posted by bralack42 Mine takes about 30 or so seconds to get to the user screen (I'm in Win.XP). Now the thing that takes forever on my systems is shutting down! It seems to be Windows XP, as on my other XP box it also takes quite a long time to shutdown/restart.

If you configure XP to shutdown when the power button is pressed,
It will properly shutdown but it will be much faster.

 

[RoninDiesel]

takes about 20 seconds from power-on to fully load everything (which is nothing lol...just objectdock and mouse drivers)
shut down takes a long minute though...quite annoying.

edit for specs:
Laptop Pentium III 700Mhz
128mb memory

 

[Zanth]

Running Debian 3.0 Unstable with 2.4.20 kernel, about 20 seconds.

Running XP...45-60 seconds.

 

[sacd lover]

Running XP it takes about 45 seconds. I have a 1.8ghz HP with 512 pc 2700 DDr ram, but several programs to load.

 

[penvzila]

I've never timed it, but i'd say 30-60 seconds.

 

[penvzila]

Quote:

Originally posted by bootman If you configure XP to shutdown when the power button is pressed, It will properly shutdown but it will be much faster.

I thought that was default.

 

[soupy]

sumtin like 45-60 seconds I believe on mine (XP pro), used to be a bit faster but hard drives gettin way too full and too many programs now.

AMD tbred xp2100+ @ 2.23ghz (about a xp2800+?)
Abit KX7 mobo
Crucial 256mb PC2100 (my 512mb pc3200 geil stick should be here soon)
Western Digital 80gb 7200rpm 8mb cache

 

[darkclouds]

I think bootman meant 'hibernation'. I could be wrong.