How long does your cab take to boot up?

[shfifty]

As the title says, i'm interested in the boot times for various systems, especially newer linux & shelled windows cabs. You will need a stop watch of some sort. Since i got CPS3 working in dos, my only real motivation to upgrade the OS and frontend lies with a better boot time... otherwise ill keep it old school
 

• Time is measured in seconds from the moment you hit the power button untill the cab has loaded the front end and ready to boot games.
• Exclude any startup videos etc

Also include:

• CPU type
• RAM
• O.S.
• Frontend
• Anything else you reckon effects it

I guess i should get the ball rolling...

- 23 Sec
- AdvanceMenu straight up through dos
- P4 2.0 Ghz
- 256mb SD ram 

[Thenasty]

Flick the switch on and counter starts. Took 18 Secs to the AdvMenu FE.

DOS 7.1
P4 (forgot)
1GB RAM
Advmenu FE
Advmame Emulator

OTHER: It takes 0 sec to shutdown   

[youki]

AMD 2 GHZ
256 Mega de RAM
WINDOWS XP
ATOMIC FE

=>  11 seconds

Same Machine  but with :
DOS 6.2
ADVMENU

=> 15 seconds

NOTE: the machine is dedicated to the cab.  i don't use the machine for something else. (no internet for instance)

[atomikbohm]

Not to hijack the thread but how do you cut your boot up time down so low?  I haven't timed my boot yet but I know it's way longer than 11 sec (and most likely longer then 23 secs).

I'm forgetting my exact system specs but my cab PC is something along the lines of:

AMD Athlon XP 1.6GHz (sound about right)
768MB DDR RAM
Windows XP (32 bit)
Mala FE

I know that you can disable services Via - My Computer -> Manage -> Services and Applications -> Services.  But am unsure which ones I can do with out.  Can anyone offer some advise?

[youki]

I have removed all things at start up.

And i stopped all not usefull services.

To know which ones to remove.

Some are obvious
for other i look on internet what is the purpose of the services and when make sense stopped it.

And for other, i tried one by one.  I stop one, reboot, look if it still work as i want. If yes, i stop the next one , if no i restart the service and stop the next one. 
I tooks time, but at the final it boots in 11secondes.

I have also disabled all device driver i don't need.

[drventure]

AMD Athlon x2
ASus m3n78-vm mobo
4 gb ram
1.5 tb 7200rpm drive
Windows Vista

Takes about 45 seconds from cold to running Mala

Not great, I suppose, but not too bad considering I've done very little tuning yet.

It's also still running the full network stack so I can admin it remotely.