booting up?

Question

a regular system boots up in 90 seconds, how can i cut it down to 30 seconds (ide bios setting)?

system with more than 3 deivce on the system

Answer 1

You most definitely can. You should be able to bring any reasonably configured system down to under 45 seconds boot time.

If you are on an XP machine Click Start, Run, type "msconfig".
Go to startup tab, and uncheck all programs that you don't need to start at startup such as Office Toolbar ,Quicktime, You dont need most of them. I only have two of them checked, Zonealarm and Nvidia. You DO NEED video drivers, Anti Virus software, Firewall etc. Do not uncheck those. If you uncheck something that you find later you want to start at startup, then go back to msconfig and check the checkbox and it will start at next restart. When you restart, the configuration utility will pop up a box to inform you that changes have been made to the way your computer starts. In this box is a checkbox, if you check this box the popup will not appear the next time you boot up, check it.

Then reboot and go to bios setup before windows loads by pressing the appropriate key when prompted during bootup. Go to boot order and make your Hard drive first in the boot order rather than your CD ROM. Some Bios have a setting for "Quickboot", some no.

You can also right click My Computer, Manage, Services and disable services that you do not need for the configuration and applications of your computer. This can also increase the security of your computer but this is advanced system level fiddling so don't change any settings here if you dont know what your doing, but there are a lot of guides to services on the web, google "XP services". Here is a good one http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleID=1759
Good luck!

PS; I remember a great online guide to speeding startup on ZDNET or CNET (they're both the same place anyway). Check it out.

found it. http://reviews.cnet.com/4520-10165_7-5554402-1.html?tag=txt

Answer 2

Some BIOS programs have an option for "Quickboot" which bypasses most of the POST tests and is much faster. However, not all BIOS programs have this and older computers almost certainly won't have this.

To see if you do have it, you'll need to enter the CMOS setup menu. Usually while the boot up sequence is running it will display a message regarding which key to press to enter the CMOS menu. If not, try F2, F1, Delete, or Escape. If it still doesn't work, consult your manual or the manufacturer's website for instructions.

Once in the CMOS menu, look around for the "Quickboot" option and enable it. Then save the settings and exit. Your system should reboot automatically.

Answer 3

That's an advanced operation, it may be kinda hard for you to try it. Don't get me wrong, I just think that it is hard to do and in case you did anything wrong, you're computer would stop working.

BEFORE CONTINUING TO READ, KEEP THAT IN MIND!

In case you're using Windows XP, you can use an utility called "msconfig", just go to "Start Menu" -> "Run" and type it in there. It is hard to use, but it allows you to use what stuff your system boots, and you disable whatever you want.

In case you already tried that, think of the antivirus you have. Some of then also boot with the operative system, and you may be able to disable them for some extra speed.

Answer 4

Well, you can go to
Start > Run > Msconfig [ENTER]
There you should be able to configure the modifications on how to make your system to boot faster, that program does the performance on the computer's initialization, so you mess around with it...

Answer 5

define regular system, mine boots in about 20 seconds.

Answer 6

No..u cant do that.. its the system speed...