CWSIV, On Friday 01 October 2004 20:00, Carl William Spitzer IV wrote:
... for your P4 etc you should be up in ten seconds easily. If thats too long for you perhaps you need less coffee.
Reboot time is probably one of the least CPU-sensitive properties of any given system. So much of the time from power-on to login prompt is dominated by the time it takes to get through the BIOS power-on self test (POST) and by disk I/O performance. This becomes even more true if you disable the RAM scanning phase of the BIOS POST. On my system with an Adaptec two-channel SCSI controller, the BIOS phase is itself dominated by time required by that board to do its startup processing and that is in turn highly dependent on the number of hard drives it must probe. Most of this start-up activity is insensitive to the CPU speed.
CWSIV
Randall Schulz