Phoenix BIOS Boots in 1 Second, Loads Win 7
Not quite instant-on, but very-quickly-on.
One difference between many consumer electronics and the PC is the time it takes from hitting the power button until it's fully functional.
PCs have had to contend with far more complexities in its system, as well as slower storage media such as hard disk drives. While much of that we have to live with, the advent of faster storage solutions such as SSDs make the wait from power-to-desktop shorter.
Now Phoenix has created a new BIOS that will boot (or POST) a PC in just one second. Such a quick boot process means that it can shave a significant portion of the total load time of a cold system, with the rest of the wait being the loading of the operating system.
Phoenix demonstrated its technology on a Lenovo T400s equipped with an SSD. Just one second after the system was powered on, the drive access light began to flicker and a clean Windows 7 was loaded to the desktop in about 10 seconds.
Check out a video of the technology in action at LaptopMag.
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Impressive. Things keep getting more and more convenient
Subarashi
Damn, I can't get into the BIOS!
Where's the Sledge Hammer?
I hope they mark up the price an extra $100 for this special feature. F2, F2, F2.... damn it, missed it again! Reboot... F2, F2, F2... #@$!
Yah - Wonderful
Seems like the bios is booting devices in parallel instead of in series, and also might make use of faster flash memory.
They'll need to include a set of turnkeys unique to each individual motherboard to allow administrators to get into the system BIOS while at the same time keeping everybody else out. I button would be too simple.
Honey, Where'd I leave my Keys?
NOOoo, I did not want the car keys, I wanted the keys to my computer!!!
Yah - Wonderful
ROFLMAO!!!
I hope they mark up the price an extra $100 for this special feature. F2, F2, F2.... damn it, missed it again! Reboot... F2, F2, F2... #@$!
Wrong Quote, ROFLMAO inteded here.
While instant-on OSes on a chip like Splashtop are nifty, getting rid of the BIOS for a faster boot would be nice. Of course this means giving up the ability to set the CHS values for your 10MB MFM and RLL drives.
this is for the very impatient!
1 second's too slow. Wake me up when it's .5 seconds, and I might be a little more excited.
this is for the very impatient!
Stop pointing at me ... Its not polite
I rarely ever boot my system cold, the just wake from sleep these days.
You guys need to learn to read they said the pc takes ll seconds to boot most new pc's ie i7 with new fast sata 600 or raid will boot that fast this is nothing special.
My vista 64bit on sata2 loads that fast.
1 sec for bios and 10 for win7.
Very nice.
However, my xbox 360 'boots up' in 9 seconds (I didn't really count but it feels like not more than 9).
Has anyone heard of Suspend to Ram ? STR? S3 ?
Mine works well. I never need to reboot. Still is a good idea. Microsoft should make a hardware OS that doesn't need to load.
Has anyone heard of Suspend to Ram ? STR? S3 ?Mine works well. I never need to reboot. Still is a good idea. Microsoft should make a hardware OS that doesn't need to load.
That existed it was called the commodore vic20 as soon as switched it on basic as running instantly.
Asrock has the time beat on this article they claim 4 seconds to boot from cold to windows.
www.asrock.com
"Microsoft should make a hardware OS that doesn't need to load." I think that's definatly the way to go. Like a PCI Express OS or a OS chipset. The benefit in THEORY would be that you could have a faster OS however given the fact that piracy also exists in hardware and/or could be cloned such as bios was done in the 80s it probably wouldn't be worth it. Also you have SSD's which are pretty fast. But you would gain performance from a pure hardware standpoint.
10 seconds until an available OS huh? We're not quite back at the mid-80s level of snappiness then but we're getting closer.
Well looks like the SSD has just opened the box of wonders, and the best is yet to come!
Very nice.However, my xbox 360 'boots up' in 9 seconds (I didn't really count but it feels like not more than 9).
SWEET DUDE, YOU ARE RIGHT, THATS TOTALLY SWEET COMPARISON!!!
Going to sell my laptop now to buy a THREE SIXTY!
Damn, that's sweet! I can't wait to get Vista the hell off my laptop. Between Vista (and all the crap HP preloaded into it) and TrueCrypt, my boot times are in the range of several minutes. That sucks.
Hardware based OS is quickly becoming a reality with this and SSD's. I would like some sort of dedicated on-board flash for the OS with dedicated hardware traps to prevent OS files from being tampered with without direction intervention from the user. Though the more I think about it the more it sounds like a bad idea... LOL
Now if we could just work some magic on the OS to make it boot in 1 sec that would be a dream come true!
I think they should put a timeout option like GRUB (GNU Bootloader) so that we can actually hit F2 or DEL to get into BIOS.
Hmm. I do boot WinXP in ~7 seconds (boot menu to desktop). Without a SSD. On a quite old and slow dual-core CPU. How? Use Boot Cooler, http://www.bootcooler.com - but it is still beta.
It is good, however, that someone at last bothered to speed up POST.
Damn, I can't get into the BIOS!Where's the Sledge Hammer?
LOL As if that split second or two you get to hit Delete or F8 wasn't already short enough. Personally, I'd rather have a second or two delay in the POST, and a much faster Windows load.
Still, any improvement is good.
It would be nice if there was a generic easy way to window into the BIOS from the System tools (even if it defaulted to a reboot afterward - 1 second wouldn't be much of a wait).
I know there are some boards out there that have features to do this - my ASROCK does and has both manual and a number of preprogrammed overclock models - but many don't.
1sec from power on to windows loading screen is no big deal.
The time between power on and a USEABLE desktop is what needs fixing.
Laptop cold boot in 10sec is pretty impressive.