New Phoenix Instant Boot BIOS Starts Loading the OS in Under a Second

btarunr · Sep 25, 2009

System BIOS vendor Phoenix Technology, the company behind the popular Award BIOS software found on several PC motherboards, has come up with a new highly-optimized implementation of UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface), that can boot the OS in under one second. This cuts time of the arbitrary 5~15 second (typical) POST process. With this time saved, system startup times are significantly reduced. Startup times are further reduced by the optimized startup procedure on Windows 7.

To put this to test, a Dell Adamo notebook with the technology, was able to reach the Windows Desktop in 20 seconds from the push of the power button, while Lenovo T400 notebooks with faster SSDs reached the Desktop in under 10 seconds. The technology should be out pretty soon.

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btarunr · Sep 25, 2009

Many Thanks to ColdStorm for sending this in.

Check out the video at the source.

Cold Storm · Sep 25, 2009

that sounds Pretty neat. I wonder how it will do in real world substance instead of a testing area

:toast:

A Cheese Danish · Sep 25, 2009

That would be nice to have on my laptop. Except 7 is really pissing me off with my video card and driver...
But booting to Windows in 20 seconds would be nice.

Kitkat · Sep 25, 2009

k this is your captain speaking ... youl notice ive turned off the no going @pe$hit sign.

:roll:

WOW!

Sasqui · Sep 25, 2009

The ultimate power saver... being able to make the PC go away and come back that fast will make more people simply turn them off.

from one second to this, I'm not sure I follow: "To put this to test, a Dell Adamo notebook with the technology, was able to reach the Windows Desktop in 20 seconds from the push of the power button, while Lenovo T400 notebooks with faster SSDs reached the Desktop in under 10 seconds. The technology should be out pretty soon."

sneekypeet · Sep 25, 2009

Sasqui said:
The ultimate power saver... being able to make the PC go away and come back that fast will make more people simply turn them off.

from one second to this, I'm not sure I follow: "To put this to test, a Dell Adamo notebook with the technology, was able to reach the Windows Desktop in 20 seconds from the push of the power button, while Lenovo T400 notebooks with faster SSDs reached the Desktop in under 10 seconds. The technology should be out pretty soon."

Says the bios loads in under 1 second, the following 9-19 seconds is actually the windows loading process.

DanishDevil · Sep 25, 2009

I really hope this ends up being standard soon! DO WANT.

TheGuruStud · Sep 25, 2009

So, I guess we wont' be hitting delete or any other keys....

sneekypeet · Sep 25, 2009

I assume you would have to be able to, you just need to up your ninja skills so you get the timing down.

Cold Storm · Sep 25, 2009

Yeah, gotta set up a switch box just to be able to hit that button fast enough!! lol

Cheeseball · Sep 25, 2009

Or you can hold down the DEL/F2/ESC+F1/etc. key before turning the PC on if ever you need to go to the BIOS.

pr0n Inspector · Sep 25, 2009

It's not BIOS it's EFI, that's the whole point of this article...
You would need devices with EFI firmware.

btarunr · Sep 25, 2009

sneekypeet said:
I assume you would have to be able to, you just need to up your ninja skills so you get the timing down.

Like in some older machines, you may have to press the power button holding the del key (for BIOS setup), or another key to reset the CMOS, etc.

Deleted member 24505 · Sep 25, 2009

Nice,i would have a extra 20seconds to something interesting.

twicksisted · Sep 25, 2009

tigger said:
Nice,i would have a extra 20seconds to something interesting.

lol...yep... im not sure that ill be upgrading for this gimmick... if its free on my next board sure... but 20 seconds of time saved... lol.... usually i switch on the pc and go fetch a beer or something

WhiteLotus · Sep 25, 2009

twicksisted said:
lol...yep... im not sure that ill be upgrading for this gimmick... if its free on my next board sure... but 20 seconds of time saved... lol.... usually i switch on the pc and go fetch a beer or something

Same, or take whatever crap that happens to me on my chair and lug it on the floor.

Mussels · Sep 25, 2009

i know what this is, i've seen things about this from asrock i think it was.

What the BIOS does is lets the system go into sleep/hibernate, and then saves that state.

next time you power it on, even if it POST's/looks like a normal boot, its really resuming from an S3? sleep state.

btarunr · Sep 25, 2009

Mussels said:
i know what this is, i've seen things about this from asrock i think it was.

What the BIOS does is lets the system go into sleep/hibernate, and then saves that state.

next time you power it on, even if it POST's/looks like a normal boot, its really resuming from an S3? sleep state.

No, this isn't that. You can power down, unplug, replug, power up, and it boots the OS in under a second.

Remember, "booting" isn't complete when you see your Windows login screen. It's complete when the system firmware has initialised all its devices, read the boot-sector of a bootable device, and loaded command.com into the memory.

Mussels · Sep 25, 2009

btarunr said:
No, this isn't that. You can power down, unplug, replug, power up, and it boots the OS in under a second.

Remember, "booting" isn't complete when you see your Windows login screen. It's complete when the system firmware has initialised all its devices, read the boot-sector of a bootable device, and loaded command.com into the memory.

bad wording made it sound similar.

this doesnt boot the OS in one second - it POSTS in one second, allowing the OS to start booting immediately.

btarunr · Sep 25, 2009

Mussels said:
this doesnt boot the OS in one second - it POSTS in one second, allowing the OS to start booting immediately.

It does boot the OS in one second. Its job is over when it runs the bootloader executable of the OS. Booting complete ≠ OS login screen. ASRock's definition of "Instant boot" is flawed. Pull the cord and you're guaranteed the next time your OS doesn't start "instantly".

Mussels · Sep 25, 2009

btarunr said:
It does boot the OS in one second. Its job is over when it runs the bootloader executable of the OS. Booting complete ≠ OS login screen.

i get what you're saying.

booting ≠ booted

its just one of those things where everyone uses inaccurate speech (at least around here) so it seems a vague way to say it.

I do get what it is now (essentially, makes POST instant)

btarunr · Sep 25, 2009

Mussels said:
i get what you're saying.

booting ≠ booted

its just one of those things where everyone uses inaccurate speech (at least around here) so it seems a vague way to say it.

I do get what it is now (essentially, makes POST instant)

Nope, booted = command.com loaded into the conventional memory (which this firmware does in under a second). Booted ≠ presented with Windows login screen.

Booting is the handing-over of all control over the hardware to the OS. This exclusive "ring-0" control changes hands the moment command.com is loaded.

W1zzard · Sep 25, 2009

in my opinion booting is until i see the desktop and can use it. who is the authority on definiting what "booting" means ?

Mussels · Sep 25, 2009

W1zzard said:
in my opinion booting is until i see the desktop and can use it

starts booting = when POST ends
booted = when OS has loaded/usable.

thats the way i always saw it, but i can hazily understand BTA's view, that a program has "booted" the second its started.

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