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    Bootup times on the i9300

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by jordansport, Oct 5, 2005.

  1. jordansport

    jordansport Notebook Consultant

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    It takes my i9300 about 45 seconds to boot up windows. Is this about right? My specs: 1.86ghz, 80 gig 5400 HD, and 2 gigs ram. I'm using win xp professional BTW.
     
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    nickspohn Notebook Virtuoso NBR Reviewer

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    Yes, thats pretty fast, i have heard there are start up times of 1:30min. Everything is ok! ;)
     
    nickspohn, Oct 5, 2005
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    what do u think boot time of 2.0 100gb 5400 1gb ran will be around
     
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    Same thing, it will be identical almost. If it takes more than 3 minutes, there is likely a problem. Pwillie: i would say under a minute or close. If you want a faster boot up time, you should get more ram, which is where you would see a bigger difference.
     
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    A reformat (if you so desire) might make that faster. My old Compaq (see sig) boots up in about 25 seconds.
     
    Eliwood, Oct 5, 2005
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    boot up is more of an HDD intensive thing, so the faster the HDD the better, unless you are really short on RAM and CPU power.

    Plus it depends on if you have a virus scan that loads on boot or not!

    Anything below 1 minute is pretty normal.

    NOTE: defrag your HDD, and maybe you'd want to use Tune-XP to defrag your boot files, that might give you a few seconds less!
     
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    Alright. Thanks guys!
     
    jordansport, Oct 5, 2005
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    There is several things you can do to make your boot up time quicker. We have a sticky about the tweaks in hardware.

    Currently my boot up time is below 30 secs with the specs below.
     
    Amber, Oct 6, 2005
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    Taxi!!!!!!!
     
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    SG: I'm guessing your bootup is 30 secs because of your 7200 HD. I only have a 5400.
     
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    Yeah but you have a 80GB. That helps the speed also.
     
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    The 7200 is a factor, but like Qwester and others said, there are other factors like reformatting, defrag HDD, etc...

    On mine, I've reformatted and got rid of all the junk. Plus I have majority of XP Pro services on a manual start instead of automatically. Then I also have edited my msconfig to allow very few programs to start at the beginning. I've used tunexp to rearrange my files for quicker boot time. There is just a lot of tricks that you can do to make it quicker, and the thread in the hardware forum gives a lot of help in this area.

    SG
     
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    The size of the HDD wouldn't matter unless you had it completely full of software or junk software and didn't have it defrag. All the size does is indicate the amount of storage that you have. Its more about what programs and services are starting and running when you boot up.

    45secs is a really good boot up time. For what all I do, I don't need that many services and programs starting. I only have 4 programs starting when I boot up, and all of XP Pro services except for the mandatory ones are turned off.
     
    Amber, Oct 6, 2005
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