How fast do you enter your OS?

[JackOO7]

I'm interested in seeing how storage, motherboard, and memory configurations change boot time.

Do you mean
* the time from pressing the power button until logon screen
or
* the time displayed under Taskmanager-Startup
or ?

 

[Arco]

Do you mean
* the time from pressing the power button until logon screen
or
* the time displayed under Taskmanager-Startup
or ?

Time from pressing power on to logon. Thanks for asking!

 

[A Computer Guy]

Somewhere in the ballpark of 15 seconds although I usually keep my pc running 24/7 especially during the winter since my office gets cold and I want to minimize fast and wide thermal swings with my custom-loop.

 

[HD64G]

A cold boot needs 25" while using a reboot makes that just over 10" from the boot screen until the OS.

 

[Psychoholic]

i THINK around 15-20 seconds for me, most of the time when i reboot its only for udpates, so that skews things.

 

[lemonadesoda]

The results are going to be heavily skewed by BIOS options selected or turned off, e.g. fast boot, wait for F2 etc.
What boot-before-login applications are installed on the machine - e.g. noMachine, antivirus, loggers
Any software updates/updaters launched, or new hardware plugged in
Network or multiboot options, e.g. PXE, polling for USB devices

I think it might be worth asking for / or suggesting an optimised boot profile, then asking how long it takes to boot.
And perhaps the timing of a from Windows to Windows "restart"

 

[Frag_Maniac]

I'm interested in seeing how storage, motherboard, and memory configurations change boot time. If you can, please state what you have.

7950x, X670E Steel Legend, DDR5 64GB 6000@CL36.
Bios: AGESA 1.0.0.6.
Time: 15 seconds to OS.

I find it strange it looks like you haven't even included what storage drive you're using yourself, yet ask us to, as you should becasue THAT is perhaps the most significant factor in boot time these days with the super fast drives available.

Aside from that the poll options are a bit ridiculous as well, because the choices are nowhere NEAR detailed enough. Jumping from a 15 sec option to 30 sec seems weird.

At any rate, my boot time in W10 is roughly 24 sec, on an 8700K, ASUS Prime Z370-A, (BIOS v. 1802 - Fast Boot option enabled) Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200, all stock speed, and the drive is a Samsung EVO 970 500 GB at 2X speed due to 3X requiring giving up a SATA 3 port I am using for another storage drive. At 2x it's C: partition speed is roughly 1600 Mb/s seq read at it's current capacity of just under 81% full.

^This is the kind of details you need to make any kind of intelligible assertation on how component spec affects boot times.

 

[P4-630]

Also some people might use Hibernate/Fastboot and alike which is not mentioned.
I don't use any of that.

 

[lemonadesoda]

Non-optimised results:
Xeon E3-1230v5, 32GB, SSD = 21 seconds

I was surprised it was that long. I remember it being *much quicker* when I was installing the OS, or after is had just been installed. I think all the software applications and utilities added have slowed things down quite considerably.

 

[..0]

i did some testing,, 32 seconds from restart button in windows to internet connected and desktop was fully loaded.
then i shut down my pc, and from powerbutton on case to internet connected and desktop was fully loaded was 18 seconds.
i7 12700k, ASUS PRIME Z690-P D4, Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4-3600 C18 64GB, Corsair Force MP600 CORE Gen4 M.2 - 4TB

 

[Frag_Maniac]

Also some people might use Hibernate/Fastboot and alike which is not mentioned.
I don't use any of that.

LOL, you're right, I forgot to mention I have Fast Boot enabled. His poll is clearly not nearly detailed enough, which makes me think he just made the thread to brag about his boot time. Hopefully he at least learned something from the responses about how to make such a thread.

 

[Sithaer]

It depends.
Just checked and it was ~21 seconds if its a cold boot.
~11 seconds if I restart counting from the boot screen/Asus logo.

Thats with Fast Boot enabled and post delay set at 3 seconds. 'this is the default settings in my BIOS'

Theres my system specs but it short its a Asus Prime B660/ i3 12100F/2x8 GB G.Skill Ripjaws DDR 4 at 3200MHz 'no tinkering only XMP enabled' a and the OS is on a Adata xpg spectrix s40g NVMe.

 

[Lei]

 

[P4-630]

Here my last BIOS time

 

[Arco]

LOL, you're right, I forgot to mention I have Fast Boot enabled. His poll is clearly not nearly detailed enough, which makes me think he just made the thread to brag about his boot time. Hopefully he at least learned something from the responses about how to make such a thread.

No, but thank you. I'll update it in response .

 

[Lei]

Here my last BIOS time

View attachment 295012

Samsung would like to sponsor you a birthday party

 

[Arco]

I find it strange it looks like you haven't even included what storage drive you're using yourself, yet ask us to, as you should becasue THAT is perhaps the most significant factor in boot time these days with the super fast drives available.

Aside from that the poll options are a bit ridiculous as well, because the choices are nowhere NEAR detailed enough. Jumping from a 15 sec option to 30 sec seems weird.

At any rate, my boot time in W10 is roughly 24 sec, on an 8700K, ASUS Prime Z370-A, (BIOS v. 1802 - Fast Boot option enabled) Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200, all stock speed, and the drive is a Samsung EVO 970 500 GB at 2X speed due to 3X requiring giving up a SATA 3 port I am using for another storage drive. At 2x it's C: partition speed is roughly 1600 Mb/s seq read at it's current capacity of just under 81% full.

^This is the kind of details you need to make any kind of intelligible assertation on how component spec affects boot times.

Got it, I'll be adding in-between options. Will add how old the Windows install is.

The results are going to be heavily skewed by BIOS options selected or turned off, e.g. fast boot, wait for F2 etc.
What boot-before-login applications are installed on the machine - e.g. noMachine, antivirus, loggers
Any software updates/updaters launched, or new hardware plugged in
Network or multiboot options, e.g. PXE, polling for USB devices

I think it might be worth asking for / or suggesting an optimised boot profile, then asking how long it takes to boot.
And perhaps the timing of a from Windows to Windows "restart"

Would it be a good idea to have a standardized setup?

 

[emothxughts]

Ryzen 5 3600, Asrock B450M Steel Legend 16GB DDR4 RAM at 3200, Windows 10 Pro, takes about 18 seconds from turning on the power switch just to see the display on with the Asrock logo, then afterwards 5-8 secs to login screen.

 

[QuietBob]

With Windows Fast Startup disabled:

 

[JackOO7]

Time from pressing power on to logon. Thanks for asking!

Cool.

Just timed it at 14 sec.
(Win11, 5900x, Asus CHVIII Hero, 16 GB Gskill DDR4-3600)

 

[lemonadesoda]

@QuietBob Haven't used Bootracer before - thanks for the tipoff. https://greatis.com/bootracer/index.html

Is this Russian utility safe?

 

[QuietBob]

@QuietBob Haven't used Bootracer before - thanks for the tipoff. https://greatis.com/bootracer/index.html
Is this Russian utility safe?

I've used it many times in the past and never had any problems with it. I guess it's safe to run it once and uninstall afterwards. If you decide to keep it, you will need to prevent it from executing on every boot up in the options.

 

[lemonadesoda]

So the answer Xeon E3-1230v5, 32GB, SSD
= 9 seconds to Windows, and
= 28 seconds to Desktop

Neat utility
(now uninstall! lol)

My earlier post? Non-optimised results: Xeon E3-1230v5, 32GB, SSD = 21 to Windows login, the extra 12 seconds must be all the BIOS stuff before Windows startup.

Why is my boot faster than QuietBob even on a much older machine? This workstation is a relatively new, clean install. Only a few essential applications loaded.

 

[P4-630]

Is this Russian utility safe?

Putin knows where you live now....

 

[lemonadesoda]

Putin knows where you live now....

Nothing to hide, nothing to hide. LOL