want a faster boot time if its possible.

munchy22

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i have a gigabyte z77ud5h with a overclocked i7 at 4.3 a core and a gtx970 g1 gamer gpu. Im also using 8gig ram at 2000Mhz

My main hd for the os is a ssd 500 the samsung 850 and it runs brilliantly fast, tests show read 520-532 and write at 500ish -510

this might be selfish but i get a boot time average of 26-30 seconds, which is cool, but i built a pc for a friend recently and his boot time is like 5-8 sec. Hes on a newer 1150 socket and im on the 1155.

Am i asking for to much or should i be able to get the motherboard down to 8 sec too?
It seems to take 16 seconds before it reaches the windows logo.
Also i have minimal programs in background. This is a newly formated and installed os windows 10 on ther machine.
 
Solution
There's usually a bit of a delay in the boot you can cut down in the BIOS, make sure your OS/SSD is first in the boot lineup, also look through startup and remove unneeded items (like Adobe programs, etc)
It also depends on the motherboard and your bios options.
For example if you have a dvd as first boot priority, but there is no dvd, it will take some time for the motherboard to time out and boot to the ssd.
Or, you may be invoking a ram test every time.

Really, best is to boot only when you need to.
Use sleep to ram(S3). It is a very low power state.
You should sleep and wake in 3 seconds or so.
 

galeener

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Ive only ever seen 8-10 secs on a system that has operating sytem on chip. Not sure what this friend of yours is doing unless its something like
Intel® SSD 750 Series NVME PCIe SSD - 2500MB/s Read & 1200MB/s Write (Single Drive) Then still not sure about it.
 

Chayan4400

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Form what I see, windows 8 seems to have some sort of ultra low power mode. This is because after messing around in BIOS and configuring the boot section properly, I get an 8-10 second boot time even when I physically power off the PC using the power button (And yes, the power button is programmed to shut the computer down.). However, when I physically cut off all power to the PC by powering down the UPS after it shuts down, then I get a 20-22 second boot time, even when the PC is configured in BIOS to enable fast boot after AC power loss