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newmanfamilyvlogs:

--- Quote from: tony.silveira on November 04, 2010, 11:45:11 pm ---80gb 7200rpm UATA-100 boot drive

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That's probably your biggest bottleneck right there.
Why not replace it with something a little more modern?
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822152181 for example.

gryhnd:
FWIW, I have an old Dell 8200 sitting here for certain office work, sporting a "whopping" P4@2.53, 512MB RAM, and a 7200 PATA WD drive. With only minor tweaks (mainly tunexp) from the time I press the power button to total load is 40 seconds.  If you take off the 10 seconds the dell splash screen shows before BIOS actually starts loading, that's only 30 seconds.

Edit: XP Pro

gryhnd:
Likewise, I recently rebuilt an HP computer whose MB died.  I replaced the MB with an MSI G31TM-P21, reused the 4GB of RAM and the Dual Core 2.4 which I O/C'd to 2952. 

From pressing the power button, it takes Vista 32bit 38 seconds on a SATA 3 Gb/s, 16 MB Cache, 7200 RPM disk.  Likewise for Ubuntu 10.10 64bit on a 8MB cache, 5400 RPM SATA disk, it takes 40 seconds to get to the login screen (lagging b/c of the slower disk no doubt).

None of this of course helps Tony, but I just wanted to throw some benchmarks out there.

So Tony, you should be able to drop that boot time down. If you've otherwise done everything, I would def. check that disk out.

ragnar:
Anti-virus is usually a killer for me.  Clean installs always have fast boot time till I get to the step of installing anti-virus software.

tony.silveira:
yeah, unemployed, money is pretty tight.

i've been building pc's longer than i care to admit and i've always been partial to a small, non partitioned boot drive for windows.  it may be time to revisit that and get a speedier boot drive

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