My quickest BIOS startup time is under 5 milliseconds.
My quickest BIOS startup time is under 5 milliseconds.
BIOS startup times are similar to what @Tamesh16 mentioned. Definitely aim for around 5.5 seconds instead of 11.4.
Sure, you can definitely give it a good shake a couple of times before flushing!
I actually ran the test and... (I wish I could have activated them all at once.) The key point is the top left: my laptop. It’s a Clevo P750DM-G with an Intel Core i7, GTX 970M, and plenty of RAM. The boot drive is a Crucial SSD, and there are multiple drives in various formats. The bottom right shows my dad's old machine—Dell D830 with an older CPU and graphics card. The bottom left lists my desktop setup with several hard drives and a BIOS splash screen.
Now I’m wondering: Which of these devices—my laptop or my dad’s old PC—takes longer to boot up? Or, if you have a server or high-end system that boots faster, would it be able to load before my current setup? (The video doesn’t show this clearly.) Also, I’m curious about any dual- or quad-CPU systems that could boot and restore from hibernation quickly, even without using Optane.
Just to confirm: Are we comparing a clean boot of my laptop versus a hibernated desktop? And should we consider the time it takes for a complex system to recover after a shutdown?
Last BIOS update was about 4.7 seconds. That’s quite quick compared to the Windows 10 lock screen which usually takes around 10 seconds. Reaching the desktop and loading everything smoothly—like opening a browser or file explorer—takes roughly 20 to 25 seconds. This performance is consistent, though for a hard drive it feels very fast. I don’t have any applications running at startup, and most other programs aren’t installed. I’m using an HP Envy 15 with an i7-8550U processor, 16GB RAM, and a 1TB HDD spinning at 5400RPM.
We agree on this, thanks for the video from @Tarun10. You seem great to me. I miss having my 486DX2 at 100MHz. I’d really like to try a SHIZ soon before it takes too long loading on Windows 95, haha!
The button reaches the lock screen in 25 seconds, while the motherboard needs about 11 seconds just to boot up.
Advancing to the BIOS terminal takes roughly 8 seconds. Launching the bootloader to the login screen requires about 3 seconds. Configuration: Ryzen 5 1500X, ASRock B450 GAMING ITX/AC, 16GB DDR4, PCIe 3.0 X16, RX 570 OPTANE, 800P, PCIe 3.0 X2, dual SATA SSDs, popOS! 19.10
Confirming the stability of the setup. Your recent readings of 9.5 and 5.7 suggest it's holding up well.