PC that boots in 10 seconds

[kronas]

InterDVD the company that brings the PC software WinDVD, has shown off its program called LinDVD, which is in direct competition with microsofts media center, the linux based program allows a pc to boot in 10 seconds, and provide the functions of a media center such as mp3 playback cd, tv and radio.

the software can be used in conjuction with a windows pc, and a simple push of the reset button will revert the pc to boot windows as normal.

http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99994567

[Ramrod]

Now theres an interesting idea.
btw....how long does it take for your pc to boot up?.....brb .....50 seconds for mine

[SOSAGES]

been impressed since i got my intel early last year with xp boot time is about 12-15 secs and im no hardware tweaking geek who has to have the best stuff =)

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[philip.j.fry]

I can boot into win98 in a little over 10s, the longest part of the boot is my promise pci ide bios detecting the drive, doesn't seem to be anyway to manually configure it

[kronas]

Originally Posted by philip.j.fry

I can boot into win98 in a little over 10s, the longest part of the boot is my promise pci ide bios detecting the drive, doesn't seem to be anyway to manually configure it

i think its rather a comparison to windows xp boot up time, for me its about 15 - 20 secs i would say, although a restart takes a while maybe because i have high uptime on my pc

[Ramrod]

Originally Posted by philip.j.fry

I can boot into win98 in a little over 10s

Holy cow How did you manage that?

[Stuart]

My PC at home takes about 2 to 3 minutes (have a lot of crap that runs at startup that I really should get rid of).

XP in one of our Labs at work takes less than 10 seconds to boot (each machine is a Intel P4 2.8GHz based machine with 1 Gig ram). In fact, using a little util I wrote, I can shutdown and reboot all 31 machines in the lab (30 student machines,1 lecturer's machine) in less than one minute.

[dilli-theclaw]

Mine boots from cold into XP in about 20seconds.

Maybe would be quicker if I used hibernate - but I've never tried that.

[philip.j.fry]

Originally Posted by Ramrod

Holy cow How did you manage that?

First, go into your bios setup and turn off the ide channels you are not using. Then if you're feeling brave you can manually configure the settings for your hard drive so the bios doesn't try to detect the settings at startup (I didn't have to do this because my hard-drives aren't connected to the motherboard ide controller).
Then you need to find all of the startup locations in windows and turn off everything you don't need, because I don't use windows much I need practically nothing.
Then, if you don't need it turn off the network. If you're connected to a router by nic then use a static ip rather than dhcp.
Turn off the graphical loading screen.
Finally, rather than use the explorer interface use something like geoshell or litestep (I use the former).
et voila, grossly reduced startup time

[Bifta]

Originally Posted by dilligaf1701

Mine boots from cold into XP in about 20seconds.

Maybe would be quicker if I used hibernate - but I've never tried that.

I (was a sad git and) timed my laptop loading from hibernate to (auto)logged on, 6 seconds flat!

[Tristan]

Interesting that it's Linux based. I find that Linux takes several times as long as XP to start up.

[kronas]

Originally Posted by Tristan

Interesting that it's Linux based. I find that Linux takes several times as long as XP to start up.

its so small, it can load from memory, hence the speed increase

[dilli-theclaw]

Originally Posted by dilligaf1701

Maybe would be quicker if I used hibernate - but I've never tried that.

Woah I'm not trying that again.

I put my pc into hibernate mode last night instead of doing an ordinary shutdown.

When I started it up again it booted quicker yes.

But the caps lock was stuck on and I couldn't go in the internet as my network card died.

[snuffs99]

11 seconds flat mine. from cold to XP