Thread: VIA Boot Times

Via m10000k XP Pro SP2 nlited
5 second opus delay
5 seconds on bios
44 seconds after i turn my key i have my frontend loaded
59 seconds after i turn my key music starts playing

short answer 59 seconds
but the windows booting process only takes about 34

I'm thinking about stripping down my windows install to see if it helps increase my time. I just did some tweaks and it is still taking 65 seconds exactly to put from switch to windows

Okay, so I upgraded my hard drive today and nlited my own copy of Windows XP SP2. My boot time is now just under 21 seconds! What a Difference!

Originally Posted by mdlesk

Okay, so I upgraded my hard drive today and nlited my own copy of Windows XP SP2. My boot time is now just under 21 seconds! What a Difference!

When I read the first 2 posts I was like "whoa... there is something seriously wrong here". 1minute for boot time is rediculous. That means something is not setup right.

Harddrive will do the trick indeed. Also disable whatever you don't need in the BIOS. Speeds it up a bit too. And of course use wuick post after the initial startup.

I get music in about 20 seconds as well with a full copy of XP Pro.

Yeah, it was really bad! I was hoping to get boot in under 20 seconds, but i think it's going to be a little difficult.

Hi mdlesk,

on my last rebuild, I documented the attached to try and get down to the elusive sub 20 sec boot time.

Squeezing the juice out of an EPIA MII

My findings however got me a Bootvis boot time of 16 secs, but then you need to add the bios boot, and any delays for your power up controller. The upshot is that from turning the key to getting music playing for me was around 50 secs, even with a documented 16 sec boot !

I am sure other things can be done to assist. I have also started to build my PC's using Bullet XP which appears to be (for me) the most stable I have found, while still offering wireless support. It gets your install down to around 17 running processes, so the little epia appears to fly !

Hope this helps.

regards
KPJUK

Thanks for the documentary! I never knew Bootvis could be used to indicate boot times prior to operating system boot up. Have you considered disabling application layer gateway service, automatic updates, computer browser, error reporting, secondary logon, print spooler, security center, system restore from services.msc?

Originally Posted by Machinist

Thanks for the documentary! I never knew Bootvis could be used to indicate boot times prior to operating system boot up. Have you considered disabling application layer gateway service, automatic updates, computer browser, error reporting, secondary logon, print spooler, security center, system restore from services.msc?

Hi Machinist,

Bootvis doesn't show BIOS boot times ! This is one of the difficulties when quoting boot times. My boot time is close to 50 secs when you take into account

Turning the key to power up M2-ATX 5 secs
BIOS BOOT 10 secs
Windows boot prior to Bootvis being kicked off 10 secs
RR boot to usable

All in all from turning the key to rr operational is around 50 secs, but Bootvis shows a 16-17 sec boot !

I am not that good around knowling what services can be removed, which is why I have started to use Bullet XP. This ends up with only 19 processes after boot, including RR and winamp, and saves me from further investigation !

A good tip though for others to look at.

cheers
KPJUK

For one very fast System,with EPIA MB,I use "TinyXP Beast Edition v5" ,one ultra lite version of XP SP2.

Little use of CPU and RAM....best solution for CarPC system.

Google search.... ;-)


Mauri