Personal computing discussed
localhostrulez wrote:OK, that's whacky - I have an HP 8200 (similar but higher-end chipset) with an i5 2400, and it's very zippy to boot off an SSD. Could the drive be failing? Do you have UEFI enabled? (Before anyone asks - yes, the 8200's have UEFI, and I think the 6200's do as well. I don't think the 8100/6100 did, and I know for sure the 8000/6000 didn't.)
madlemming wrote:This article walks you through how to setup a boot performance trace, so you can see what the problem is:
https://Helgeklein.com/blog/2013/07/ana ... -analyzer/
heh, it's been so long since I've booted from a magnetic disk, I don't even know what an average time is anymore...
toki wrote:I am on a newly bought SSD and windows 10 boot time is at least 10 to 15 seconds before it gets to the home page. I was wondering why it's so slow as well.
biffzinker wrote:I like it. I just wish I did a better board to fully utilize the features of the SSD and be able to overclock. I did not do my homework, so I'm stuck with it. I do like this board though, I just wish I was able to push more out with it.toki wrote:I am on a newly bought SSD and windows 10 boot time is at least 10 to 15 seconds before it gets to the home page. I was wondering why it's so slow as well.
Not bad for buying a lemon though huh?
Acidicheartburn wrote:I don't think UEFI is enabled. I had to play with the BIOS a bit after I received the computer and it was standard BIOS, no mouse allowed.
Flying Fox wrote:I am talking from the welcome page to home page. 10 to 15 seconds to load. Welcome page takes foreverA lot of gerbils here already got an SSD so comparing boot times with a mechanical is just not fair. However, since you have some samples with mechanicals I will trust your observations.
Did you separate how much it is the BIOS and perhaps even the RAID BIOS doing their booting? When measuring boot time of the OS itself you should measure from after all the BIOSes (mobo, video card?, RAID controllers, etc.) have finished. I usually start from the time the Windows logo shows up, but before the circle of dots starts to appear below it.
Flying Fox wrote:A lot of gerbils here already got an SSD so comparing boot times with a mechanical is just not fair. However, since you have some samples with mechanicals I will trust your observations.
Did you separate how much it is the BIOS and perhaps even the RAID BIOS doing their booting? When measuring boot time of the OS itself you should measure from after all the BIOSes (mobo, video card?, RAID controllers, etc.) have finished. I usually start from the time the Windows logo shows up, but before the circle of dots starts to appear below it.
localhostrulez wrote:Acidicheartburn wrote:I don't think UEFI is enabled. I had to play with the BIOS a bit after I received the computer and it was standard BIOS, no mouse allowed.
For the record, UEFI's don't always have a mouse. Look for legacy and UEFI/EFI boot options on the 6200. That said, you're probably running in legacy BIOS mode if it shipped with Win7.
I'm also curious, how does Win10 behave with fast boot *off* (or when restarted, which temporarily ignores it and reboots the kernel)? I usually disable that feature, because it's always seemed a little glitchy to me at times (even with .
I've also never seen any of those HP elites take more than a few seconds to POST.
DPete27 wrote:My non-scientific observation** has been that Win10 seems to load/boot faster on machines that have it clean installed rather than upgraded from Win7.
**This is just from a handful of systems I've built or upgraded to Win10 in the last year and I've never done any quantitative testing on the issue.
just brew it! wrote:Does Windows 10 still have the "disk controller can get stuck in PIO mode" issue? Haven't had to deal with that in years, but IIRC it could still happen as recently as Vista/Win7, so maybe the behavior is still there in 10 as well.
Have you considered using Sleep instead of powering the system all the way down?
shutdown /s /t 0
Acidicheartburn wrote:I recently acquired an HP Compaq 6200 Pro Small Form Factor desktop tower computer with an i7 2600 and 8 GB of RAM, running off of a 500GB Seagate Barracuda. It came with Win 7 Pro 64 bit which I upgraded to 10, then did a clean reinstall of 10 from a fresh ISO. Unfortunately, Windows 10 seems to load and login unusually slow. Possibly even slower than the Win 7 that came with the computer. I have a separate laptop with a lowly i3 from 2013 that boots, loads Windows 8, and logs in much faster, all running off of a WD Blue HDD. The same goes for another laptop I have with an i7 5500u and a similar HDD.
Why's this thing load Windows so slow? It takes about 30-40 seconds after POST before I see the home screen. Are some motherboards just slower to load Windows, even AFTER POST? Before you ask, no I don't have a bunch of things set to startup. I'm not a novice user. I've made sure Fast Boot is set to ON in the Power Options settings menu. What gives?