TSGL: Dell Dimension - too slow

[The Computer Whisperer]

Don, the on/off button will be projected onto an object or voice activated. lol

Justin

On 16/10/06, Don Penlington <deepend at tpg.com.au> wrote:
> Tilman wrote:
> >The problem anyway (or most of it) seems gone after I changed the bios
> >settings for drives that hadn't been installed. Switched from 'Auto' to
> >'not installed' or similar. Now bootup ist FAAAAST: it's now down to 25
> >% of the 3 minutes it took before - 45 seconds!>>
>
>
> That's good. Surprising that such a simple alteration would make so much
> difference to boot time.
>
> My own personal benchmark for boot time from power-on to desktop first
> appearing is 32-50 seconds.  I'm happy to settle for anything up to 60
> seconds. Over that, it's time to start asking questions.
>
> I've generally found that fast/slow boot times usually mean fast/slow
> performance.  Not entirely logical, but what is???
>
> Strangely, I've found those same boot times almost identical for all my
> computers right back to W95 days. As computers get bigger, so does the
> software load.  We never seem to get ahead of the game!
>
> I have occasionally seen 28 seconds when the computer is brand new and
> unsullied by installed software/hardware.  But in real life, 45 seconds is
> pretty acceptable.
>
> I wonder if anyone is consistently under 25 seconds for a cold boot?
>
> I reckon running W95B on a new state-of-art computer should have a boot
> time around 10 seconds. Has anyone tried it?
>
> Can't wait for quantum computers and nano computers.  Everything will be
> instant. Including crashes.
>
> With my new nano-computer being around a millionth of a Centimetre wide, I
> wonder what the On-Off power button will look like.
>
> Don Penlington
>
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