1:30 boot time to hyperspin screen slow?

[equlizer]

system is an i3 2100, 8gigs ram, 2tb 7200rpm drive, win7 64bit shelled.

[IAmDotorg]

system is an i3 2100, 8gigs ram, 2tb 7200rpm drive, win7 64bit shelled.

It takes 4-5 seconds on my system, but there's a lot of variables obviously. But generally mine comes up faster than the monitor wakes up from low power mode. (I hear it before I see it.)

[equlizer]

I'm talking about from when i hit the power button on the back to when the hyperscreen comes on.  You can do that in 5 seconds?

[IAmDotorg]

Yeah, about that. Say, 4-6 seconds.

Its an i3-4360, SSD, Windows 8 with an autologin to a profile with HyperSpin as the shell.

The monitor I'm using (an old Dell 2007FP) takes longer to wake up as the video drivers initialize, so the HyperSpin logo is already starting to spin before the monitor even comes on.

[equlizer]

Anyone else chime in on this?

Is your system in sleep or complete power down? Ive never heard of ANY system powering up in 5 seconds no matter what your specs are.

[IAmDotorg]

Complete power down, hybrid-boot. Not a hibernate or a sleep.

Most properly configured Win8 systems with an SSD can boot that fast. In fact, all of my Win8 systems do.

This desktop is probably the slowest, but it boots to the login screen in maybe 15 seconds. (Half of that is the UEFI bios doing something I haven't figured out how to turn off...)

[Skinnysloth]

Windows 8 has a "fast startup" (hybrid boot) option that when you shut down puts the system in a partial hibernate state.  It makes booting up very fast, especially with an SSD HD.  For reference, my old core2duo computer running windows 8 takes 2 minutes to get to the hyperspin screen.  I do not have an SSD drive nor is hyperspin the shell.

Edit: So I my fast startup wasn't working because hibernate was turned off.  When I turn on hibernate and used the fast startup option, my boot time was reduced by almost half to 1min 15 secs.

[lamprey]

I have an older i7-920 and it takes roughly 51 seconds from cold boot to hyperspin launching. I do have an SSD boot drive, but it is also an older one that is not nearly as fast as, say, the new Samsung SSDs

[retrogamedude]

I have a i5, 16gb ram and a 256 GB ssd on win 7 and it boots up in under 15 seconds and has hyperspin shelled.  This is from complete off by the way.

[dudemann]

Anyone else chime in on this?

Is your system in sleep or complete power down? Ive never heard of ANY system powering up in 5 seconds no matter what your specs are.

Boot time is limited almost entirely by the hard drive you have. With a HDD your boot time will will be significantly longer than an SSD not matter what the processor, RAM, etc. are.

[lilshawn]

I find the hybrid sleep state takes longer to recover from than ACTUALLY booting my system from dead off.

[IAmDotorg]

Hibernated, that should be the case. Hibernation isn't meant to speed up booting, its meant to keep you from having to get back to where you were in all your programs. It trades off boot time for convenience.

Hybrid boot should be vastly faster than a cold boot. If its not, it probably isn't actually doing a hybrid boot. (In fact, IIRC, Windows won't attempt it if the hardware isn't right for it to be faster.)

[equlizer]

Is it ok to have your OS and movies/images on an SSD and keep all the roms on a HDD?

[IAmDotorg]

Yup, totally fine. Disk speed to the ROMs doesn't matter. (I was running mine on a NAS server over WiFi for a while.)

[slappyhooper]

Make sure all your network cards are disabled or Windows will just sit there looking for a DHCP IP address and take forever to load anything.

[IAmDotorg]

Make sure all your network cards are disabled or Windows will just sit there looking for a DHCP IP address and take forever to load anything.

Windows network initialization is completely asynchronous -- it won't block anything. What may get slowed down is interactive software that starts needing a network connection. HyperSpin isn't one. (I have both wired and wireless connections that come up on mine, they never have an IP until well after HyperSpin is already on the root wheel, and there's zero delay (as designed).