Quote: Originally Posted by
Kimota 
Is your post time slow? Thats my main issue, I'm using a solid state drive windows boots lighting fast ( 2-3 seconds I'd say) but the post time really slows me down
. Note I'm using full version of XP with minlogon and EWF (no HORM).
Finding motherboards with really fast post times would probably be the biggest decrease in boot times for most of us.
POST is only 2-3 seconds (if I understand what POST exactly is). The screen that flashes hardware details soon after initial powerup?
I enabled quick startup and disabled mem checking and via logo display in BIOS,
Often times, I don't even see the initial screen after power up. It's all blank, then the XP logo screen flashes for 1 second, goes blank and then takes RR 7 seconds from the splash screen to playing music. That is all in an average of 38 secs. PC is warmed up too.