How long does it take..
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From: My own level of hell
Originally Posted by joebenz
reboot? or cold boot? if i reboot it doesnt do the memory stuff. if i cold boot it does all the memory stuff
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From: My own level of hell
Originally Posted by joebenz
my computer must suck. buy me a new one 
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from cold boot about 15-20 seconds. Dell poweredge SC420, with 2GB of RAM and 3.2GHz HT cpu. nothing fancy. Running XP
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On my 1.73 centrino Toshiba notebook, it takes ~30 seconds to boot.
On my 1.2 centrino ultra low voltage sony vaio (the one im presently on) it takes ~45 seconds.
Both machines run xp and 1 gig of ram.
On my 1.2 centrino ultra low voltage sony vaio (the one im presently on) it takes ~45 seconds.
Both machines run xp and 1 gig of ram.
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Originally Posted by DakarM
from cold boot about 15-20 seconds. Dell poweredge SC420, with 2GB of RAM and 3.2GHz HT cpu. nothing fancy. Running XP
I think my Dell is 2.3GHz, 512MB of RAM. I don't know about boot time, I restart it once a week and that's it.
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50sec. :ugh:
XP Pro
3.0Ghz P4
1GB PC3200
The BIOS takes a while, then there's an extra screen that show my HDD configuration (running 2 120GB drives in RAID0).
I'm getting ready to upgrade hard drives (2 320GB drives) and do a reinstall, no RAID0 this time. I'll see how it is, then.
Never realized it took that long 'cause the first thing I do when I wake up every morning is power up, then go to the bathroom. (too loud to leave on all night)
Oh yeah...and if I happen to have a DVD in the drive, the splash screen takes FOREVER for some reason!
XP Pro
3.0Ghz P4
1GB PC3200
The BIOS takes a while, then there's an extra screen that show my HDD configuration (running 2 120GB drives in RAID0).
I'm getting ready to upgrade hard drives (2 320GB drives) and do a reinstall, no RAID0 this time. I'll see how it is, then.
Never realized it took that long 'cause the first thing I do when I wake up every morning is power up, then go to the bathroom. (too loud to leave on all night)
Oh yeah...and if I happen to have a DVD in the drive, the splash screen takes FOREVER for some reason!
Last edited by Black2KGSR; Feb 17, 2006 at 09:33 PM.
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Originally Posted by e3NiNe
I do remember the days of my 266mhz, win95 computer ... I'd come home, turn on the PC, start a microwave meal, get changed, sign on to the PC, get the food, start eating .... and the pc was just about ready to use. :chuckles:
so i go into msconfig & disable almost everything but the minimum & reboot. still takes almost 15 min to reboot, so i load adaware & spybot. which find almost 300,000 infected files & takes another 30-45 minutes to delete it all
........& another reboot. this time boot time is 3-5 minutes 
so 1hr 45min into it, i FINALLY start the DSL portion of the install, only to find that the onboard NIC is defective & have to crack the case & put in a PCI NIC card........& another reboot.
i finally configure the modem & all the settings & stuff we have to do. 2hrs 45min total & give the guy the bill
....for what he paid to have it installed on his shitbox pc that won't work worth a damned on DSL, he coulda had the majority of the price of a good barebones dell that'd been 20x the pc he had. 
$80 first half-hour & $55 per half-hour after that. so 3hr repair = $355
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