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My arcade cabinet (unorigional title)
drventure:
What kind of tweaks did you make to boot in 30 secs?
Just curious. Mine's down right now, so I can't time it but I'm thinking it takes about a minute.
romshark:
I turned off some of the stuff from MSCONFIG (Start->Run.) Stuff like Themes, most of the networking stuff, maybe Windows Security Center (I think I do have that running again, since it might have been complaining about not running.) Since the cabinet lacks any network connections, I don't need that stuff. Mostly deselecting stuff I thought wouldn't affect any of the stuff I need to run. As long as I had video, sound, controls, DVD software, and video codecs, and Windows didn't crash, everything else was fair game.
I did sit down with another PC and Googled what some of the services do, and determined what I could safely turn off.
Also, it was a fresh install, so there's no Office loaders, Symantec stuff, iTunes helpers, or other stuff that causes slowdown. Plus, while the system isn't top of the line, it does have decent power, 1024MB of L2 cache (I think), and a decent hard drive.
Saint probably explains it better than I could in the Project Arcade book. Page 308. Actually, looking at those pages now, I realized I never installed Tweak UI. Maybe I can squeeze out a few more seconds...
romshark:
Just measured it. It does take about 55 seconds! I need to check my settings. I think I messed with something when I couldn't get the DVD software to work (which turned out to be caused by something completely different.) It was about 30 seconds at one time...
Anyway, did a video (with my first crappy "live" commentary). You can even see one of my robots (my other hobby) at the beginning, doing my intro for me.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5FykTew_CY[/youtube]
drventure:
Cool robot.
You +really+ need to integrate that robot (or some robotics) into that arcade cab!
I really wish the cab I used had more room in it. My initial plans was to actually have it fold in and out via linear actuators ala transformers.
May get there but it'll be in another cab.
Ond:
That video goes for over 10 mins! - yes I watched the whole thing. Love the 'Rick' lock out feature, jeez I need that on all the pc's in my house full of curious kids. I'm not sure I understood the button mapping though maybe you could explain that here, it sounded like a good setup. Oh yeah very cool robot.