Restart Time

[Ken]

20 second BIOS time.

Old ECS board with a Phenom 2, X2 - 3.0GHz
8GB of RAM.
240GB SSD OCZ Agility 3

Not sure why it takes this long to restart, it boots from off much quicker.

 

[Hopachi]

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20 second BIOS time.

Old ECS board with a Phenom 2, X2 - 3.0GHz
8GB of RAM.
240GB SSD OCZ Agility 3

Not sure why it takes this long to restart, it boots from off much quicker.

It's because of the hybrid boot - fast startup functionality that was added to Win8:
http://www.eightforums.com/tutorials/6320-fast-startup-turn-off-windows-8-a.html

Restart is not affected and there you see the REAL (full) boot time.

 

[Hopachi]

Embarrassed to post a new screenshot:

Previously I got 45 seconds restart on dual core + 1.5GB RAM and 80GB IDE HDD drive, Win7 x64.

Now Win8 x64 + UEFI and SATA HDD + 8 GB RAM gets 78 seconds.
BIOS time is 5 seconds so the rest is... pretty unknown territory right now.

It seems the preinstalled OEM OS is full of junk and I probably need some cleaning to do.
I allready cleaned most of the startup items but that's not enough. I'll try to look carefully. Don't think a defrag will do much but it's on the to do list.

HDD speed is what I expected to be but still... the new score is low.

 

[voyagerxp]

I get 55 second full restart with my external hard drive

And without my external hard drive i get 30 second full restart. Mad how much an external device can slow a reboot.

Asus G73JH Notebook

Spec

CPU - Intel Core i7 i7-720QM / 1.6 GHz
RAM - 8.0 GB DDR3 SDRAM
Hard Drive 1 - Intel X25-M 80GB SSD
Hard Drive 2 - Seagate Momentus XT 500GB Hybrid
VGA - ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870
Display - LED backlight
Dvd Drive - Optiarc BD RW BD-5730s
OS - Windows 8 Pro

 

[jmrtlara]

Here's mine. Not bad I guess. It could use some improvements though.

Specs:

Intel i3-2120 3.30 GHz
4GB of RAM
Nvidia GT430 1GB
500GB HDD
OS: Windows 8 Pro 32-bit

 

[whs]

My new Dell - looks like this is pretty fast.

 

[whs]

And this is my Toshiba laptop

 

[Furry]

With 2 SSD's in Raid 0.... *Sigh*

 

[Hopachi]

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With 2 SSD's in Raid 0.... *Sigh*

Sorry man.
Something's wrong because 1 HDD (5300RPM) beats this.

It can be the raid type (software raid?), too many redundancy. Or one drive may be down....

Or maybe you got too much startup programs.

The most important thing is that it works. :thumb:

 

[whs]

SSDs in Raid is counterproductive - I think.

 

[tw33k]

Like others have stated, my external hard drive adds a considerable amount but this isn't too bad..

 

[whs]

Mark, those SSDs have adorable prices these days. Maybe time to add one. Hopefully Australia followed the trend.

 

[Furry]

Sorry man.
Something's wrong because 1 HDD (5300RPM) beats this.

It can be the raid type (software raid?), too many redundancy. Or one drive may be down....

Or maybe you got too much startup programs.

The most important thing is that it works. :thumb:

I have almost none startup programs...
in Atto Benchmark i get around 1GBs read and write speed...
I had the same setup in Win7 and then restart took only around 10 sek.. in Win8 its 67... -.-

 

[Hopachi]

Sorry man.
Something's wrong because 1 HDD (5300RPM) beats this.

It can be the raid type (software raid?), too many redundancy. Or one drive may be down....

Or maybe you got too much startup programs.

The most important thing is that it works. :thumb:

I have almost none startup programs...
in Atto Benchmark i get around 1GBs read and write speed...
I had the same setup in Win7 and then restart took only around 10 sek.. in Win8 its 67... -.-

Then it must be the Start Screen:
I noticed this on my machine, I had to manually go to the desktop to let the restart report show.
This got me about 15 seconds until I decided to do myself...

I hope the restart counter we use doesn't record the time till we get to desktop because then we all get higher scores than in Win7. Basically you can stay 1hour in start screen and then your score is 1hour even with RAID7 SSD or magnetic RAM.

I'll see if I can score better than my last attempt, following what I said.

 

[Furry]

Then it must be the Start Screen:
I noticed this on my machine, I had to manually go to the desktop to let the restart report show.
This got me about 15 seconds until I decided to do myself...

I hope the restart counter we use doesn't record the time till we get to desktop because then we all get higher scores than in Win7. Basically you can stay 1hour in start screen and then your score is 1hour even with RAID7 SSD or magnetic RAM.

I'll see if I can score better than my last attempt, following what I said.

I clicked on Desktop the same second as the Start screen showed up... so that just added maximum 1 sec to my report...

 

[Hopachi]

Then it must be the Start Screen:
I noticed this on my machine, I had to manually go to the desktop to let the restart report show.
This got me about 15 seconds until I decided to do myself...

I hope the restart counter we use doesn't record the time till we get to desktop because then we all get higher scores than in Win7. Basically you can stay 1hour in start screen and then your score is 1hour even with RAID7 SSD or magnetic RAM.

I'll see if I can score better than my last attempt, following what I said.

I clicked on Desktop the same second as the Start screen showed up... so that just added maximum 1 sec to my report...

Alright then.

You're at max speed...

 

[Hopachi]

Then it must be the Start Screen:
I noticed this on my machine, I had to manually go to the desktop to let the restart report show.
This got me about 15 seconds until I decided to do myself...

I hope the restart counter we use doesn't record the time till we get to desktop because then we all get higher scores than in Win7. Basically you can stay 1hour in start screen and then your score is 1hour even with RAID7 SSD or magnetic RAM.

I'll see if I can score better than my last attempt, following what I said.

I clicked on Desktop the same second as the Start screen showed up... so that just added maximum 1 sec to my report...

Alright then.

You're at max speed...

Quoting myself... Wow.

Forget what I said in my initial post. It seems to be the other way around.
I've waited 2 minutes in start screen and then went to desktop, the report was already done and I got this:


Tried again but went directly to desktop and what do you expect: 81 seconds!

So next time don't go directly to desktop and it may save a couple of seconds, at least on slow HDD's like mine.

Case closed.

Thanks

 

[tw33k]

Mark, those SSDs have adorable prices these days. Maybe time to add one. Hopefully Australia followed the trend.

You mean as an external backup? I'd need at least 2x 512GB drives which is not very economical.

A bit of tweaking got me 6 sec better

 

[whs]

You mean as an external backup?

No, I mean for the OS to reside in the PC.

 

[whs]

Very good number. But even after 4 years, this is not a low end computer by any means. I could only manage slightly better on a very recent system with a M4.