My quickest BIOS startup time is under 5 milliseconds.
My quickest BIOS startup time is under 5 milliseconds.
I've experienced some really slow boot times throughout my life. The worst I've seen was around 3 to 4 minutes. The quickest I've encountered is 11.4 seconds. Usually on a standard hard drive, after powering it off and turning it back on. What's your experience?
PC login takes about 11 seconds. Television display appears in 2 seconds.
Not enough time for a cup of tea anymore, which can be frustrating. It's so fast now that I question if anything faster would help—it usually takes about 10 seconds. By the moment I press the button, sit down, and put on my headphones, my PC is already ready to go.
You're referring to the startup time during BIOS mode as seen in Task Manager, which consistently takes around 5.5 seconds with minimal differences.
On my Clevo laptop, the process takes roughly 40 to 60 seconds from powering on until the American Megatrends logo shows up with your CPU model and SSD details. For some reason, only SATA drives appear—your 1TB 970 Evo isn’t visible. You mentioned BIOS boot times, not OS boot time. Then there’s a delay of a few minutes to restore my hibernated session from the 250GB Crucial MX200 drive, which used about 50 GB of RAM. I plan to try this again soon, but I’m curious if my desktop setup—ASRock Z97 Extreme6, i7-4790K, 32GB RAM, multiple SSDs, and a BT-PESAPA controller—can reach a Ubuntu Studio or Xubuntu desktop before my laptop even starts. It’s interesting how my current hardware outperforms the single-threaded Cinebench score of my dad’s older laptop, which he recently upgraded a year and a half ago. This is essentially the same performance gap I’m aiming for when upgrading my desktop in 2021 or 2022.