Comments on: Hyperspace BIOS: boot in 4 seconds

By: teach

teach — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 01:16:46 +0000

28 sec to boot fully

Dual Core E6600 @3300
2gig ocz
lastxp

Cant wait for solid state HDs to get cheaper

By: Verticallogic

Verticallogic — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 05:11:53 +0000

Judgey, if takes you 60 seconds from power button to desktop you need to turn off some processes. I have an amd 2800+ and its only 27 seconds from power button to fully loaded desktop. Its not even a dual core.
And medic666, youre no better yourself!

By: Sans

Sans — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 09:45:55 +0000

“sans you are obviously misunderstanding term booting and booting from hybernation…”

I don’t use hibernation. As everyone else has pointed out a cold boot this quick is kind of standard on new notebooks. Anyone with an old notebook that would want this BIOS can’t have it because that’s not how computers work.

BTW my software firewall loads at a certain point during the boot process, when the network card is initialised.

Presumably this fantastic BIOS will be enabling my network card and establishing a network connection without going through Windows’ full boot process which enables my firewall and yours. Super. Can’t see any problems with that.

By: haha

haha — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 06:12:45 +0000

3 minutes? LOL. Time cut down on the spyware or something. This new box takes much longer than the old one (RAID card scanning for 6 drives, plus intel’s own slow RAID bios looking for 6 more and the USB stuff too). And I can still boot (not resume from hibernation), login & enter password, load startup processes and all in under a minute .

By: dotslash

dotslash — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 01:01:27 +0000

Slashdot article :
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/05/1533209

By: deaf audiophile

deaf audiophile — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 00:15:19 +0000

I lump this in the same category as download accelerators, browser accelerators, internet accelerators, modem accelerators, RAM disk accelerators, and bootup accelerators (which is far from a new concept). It all ends up being a bunch of hooey that screws around with stuff that shouldn’t be screwed around with to hide the fact that it’s fakery.

Some people get all obsessed about their 30 second boot time and spend hours or days making the boot time a few seconds shorter – and waste more time doing that than they ever would have just leaving it alone!

If you’re taking 3 minutes or more to boot, then you usually have a problem – most likely spyware on an older machine without SP1 or SP2 installed, which can get you a few thousand pieces of spyware loading up at boot.

By: Medic666

Medic666 — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 00:03:03 +0000

Funny how a peice of decent software can receive such newbie, no minded comments. Too bad this site doesn’t have a separate tech area, it would be worthwhile reading relevant and useful posts instead of children stating how fast they THINK their OS has booted up, and then droning on and on about it.

Either that or have a more skillful question to post, have the SPAM question followed by an ‘idiot’ question to weed out clowns posting irrelevant garbage. Today it is 8+9, simply subtracting 1 afterwards would do in many of the posters here.

By: me

me — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 23:58:45 +0000

I have to do the thinking for Phoenix?
Release a Bios With Linux builtin like DSL

By: Lucid Harmony

Lucid Harmony — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 23:22:28 +0000

My Vista boots in roughly 30 seconds, that includes loading all my beginning progs and being ready to roll.

By: Rekrul

Rekrul — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 22:56:15 +0000

I have a custom-built 1.8Ghz system running Windows 98SE. From the time I press the power button until the time the last background application loads is less than a minute for me. Not exactly speedy, but nowhere near the exxagerated boot time of 3 minutes. Note that I don’t have a lot that runs in the background, mainly just my firewall and GetRight.

By: Yloony

Yloony — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 22:51:38 +0000

Ok, I was lying… 32 seconds and I can browse in windows explorer…

By: Yloony

Yloony — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 22:48:52 +0000

It would indeed be nice if you could insert your crysis dvd and it would run without having to load your OS first like on a console. But that won’t happen real soon. Still, my comp boots in under 30 seconds, everything running and ready to go…

By: synonymous

synonymous — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 21:16:40 +0000

Judgey, your system sucks.

I’m on a Centrino Duo laptop (1.67 ghz), 2 gigs of ram, 128 mb video card, and Windows Vista Home Premium, my comp takes like 20 seconds to boot (from the time I hit the power button, to getting online using Firefox). And I’ve had the same installation since mid-summer.

By: OLD

OLD — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 20:52:28 +0000

the best versions of ASUS motherboards have this gimmic already

By: Mac is for corksniffing fangirls

Mac is for corksniffing fangirls — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 20:21:52 +0000

anyone who takes more than 40 seconds to desktop from scratch does not know anything about their pc/laptop/whatever, or has a computer from 1999. sure you cant achieve that boot up speed with just standard xp/vista installed, you need to tweak a bit, just google it, n00b.

jv, you missed the point, the article said 3 minutes to start, mine is 34 secs, so the article is filled with disinfo to sell their own junk which noone needs. i can use anything within 34 secs, doesnt matter what. next time, read properly before saying dumb stuff, borat.