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  • J Joshua Nussbaum

    Windows XP Startup time with 1GB I-RAM[^] pretty damn fast 60% of statistics are made up on the spot

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    That's impressive. But yeah, i'm with Jeremy on this one - it'd be a whole lot more impressive if MS could put these blazingly fast hard drives we have today to some good use. We should at least see cold boot time equal to the time it takes to resume from hibernate.

    Now taking suggestions for the next release of CPhog...

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      Joshua Nussbaum wrote:

      pretty damn fast

      Yeah, reminds me of the BeOS, except they did it in 14 seconds with a plain ol', slow hard disk. :) Jeremy Falcon

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      hey thats not bad. esp. compared to linux. takes forever.. Now I wonder if vista is any faster.. i would imagine not. (Thats one thing about linux - when a new version comes out the system requirements dont go up much. I like that.) 60% of statistics are made up on the spot

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      • J Joshua Nussbaum

        Windows XP Startup time with 1GB I-RAM[^] pretty damn fast 60% of statistics are made up on the spot

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        Hmm that is pretty good. I wonder what the VS2005 shut-down time would be on that machine. I still can't figure out what on God's green earth it is doing in the minute or more it takes to close (no hard drive activity...). Cheers, Drew.

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          hey thats not bad. esp. compared to linux. takes forever.. Now I wonder if vista is any faster.. i would imagine not. (Thats one thing about linux - when a new version comes out the system requirements dont go up much. I like that.) 60% of statistics are made up on the spot

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          Jeremy Falcon
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          Joshua Nussbaum wrote:

          hey thats not bad. esp. compared to linux. takes forever..

          And that was back in the day, on old computers when 5400 RPM considered fast. And unlike XP, they didn't just dump everything into RAM and go from there, you didn't need 256MB for the BeOS to be usable. I still have my BeOS 4.5 CD lying around somewhere. I bet I can get it to boot on a VM quickly too.

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          (Thats one thing about linux - when a new version comes out the system requirements dont go up much. I like that.)

          Yup. Jeremy Falcon

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            That's impressive. But yeah, i'm with Jeremy on this one - it'd be a whole lot more impressive if MS could put these blazingly fast hard drives we have today to some good use. We should at least see cold boot time equal to the time it takes to resume from hibernate.

            Now taking suggestions for the next release of CPhog...

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            Jeremy Falcon
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            Shog9 wrote:

            it'd be a whole lot more impressive if MS could put these blazingly fast hard drives we have today to some good use.

            Man, it'll be cool to think of where computers will head when the HDD is finally phased out. Of course, PCs will still be using floppy disks. :) Jeremy Falcon

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              That's impressive. But yeah, i'm with Jeremy on this one - it'd be a whole lot more impressive if MS could put these blazingly fast hard drives we have today to some good use. We should at least see cold boot time equal to the time it takes to resume from hibernate.

              Now taking suggestions for the next release of CPhog...

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              David Stone
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              Vista should be better about this.

              Then there's power management. System power management queries between system drivers and the OS have gotten a major overhaul, so it should be easier for hardware vendors to make their devices work in low-power environments and seamlessly work with power-saving features like Hibernation and Sleep Mode. "What is Sleep Mode?" you ask? On desktop systems, turning off the power will, by default, put your computer in Sleep Mode, where all the data currently in use is saved to both RAM and the hard drive, and then turns everything off except for a few key components (CPU, RAM, a few chipset features). Move the mouse or press a key and the computer "boots" in a few seconds. In reality, your computer never turned off, it just went into a super-low-power mode. On laptops, Sleep Mode works much the same way when you hit the power button or close the lid, except it doesn't take the time to double-save everything to a hard disk. Instead, it monitors battery life in the ultra-low-power Sleep Mode and, when the battery gets low, transfers the RAM contents to the hard disk. It's like Hibernate mode, only faster.

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              • J Joshua Nussbaum

                Windows XP Startup time with 1GB I-RAM[^] pretty damn fast 60% of statistics are made up on the spot

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                I do not think that is using a 1GB I-RAM, that text on the site reads "GigaByte I-RAM", but GigaByte is the name of the company that makes the I-RAM board.    FWIW - last I knew, the I-RAM board only supported 4GB of storage...    There were a few articles posted on tech sites (like Anandtech, etc.) when this thing first came out.    Peace! -=- James


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                  I do not think that is using a 1GB I-RAM, that text on the site reads "GigaByte I-RAM", but GigaByte is the name of the company that makes the I-RAM board.    FWIW - last I knew, the I-RAM board only supported 4GB of storage...    There were a few articles posted on tech sites (like Anandtech, etc.) when this thing first came out.    Peace! -=- James


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                  James R. Twine wrote:

                  FWIW - last I knew, the I-RAM board only supported 4GB of storage...

                  Yes, It has 4 DDR1 dimm slots and supports up to a 1GB unbuffered dimm per slot. John

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                  • J Joshua Nussbaum

                    Windows XP Startup time with 1GB I-RAM[^] pretty damn fast 60% of statistics are made up on the spot

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                    Dan Neely
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                    I can't watch the video now. How fast is the boot?

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                      I can't watch the video now. How fast is the boot?

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                      Nearly instantaneous. I mean it probably took 1 second[update]Alright 4 seconds[/update] from when the WinXP boot screen appeared. (Which is really all that counts. Everything before that is hardware initialization and BIOS bootup.

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                      Modified on: Thursday, March 23, 2006 2:28:11 PM -- Went back and looked at the timestamps on the video...

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                        I can't watch the video now. How fast is the boot?

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                        Ravi Bhavnani
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                        About 2 seconds for Windows to startup. :omg: /ravi My new year's resolution: 2048 x 1536 Home | Music | Articles | Freeware | Trips ravib(at)ravib(dot)com

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                        • J James R Twine

                          I do not think that is using a 1GB I-RAM, that text on the site reads "GigaByte I-RAM", but GigaByte is the name of the company that makes the I-RAM board.    FWIW - last I knew, the I-RAM board only supported 4GB of storage...    There were a few articles posted on tech sites (like Anandtech, etc.) when this thing first came out.    Peace! -=- James


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                          Joshua Nussbaum
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                          u are correct. i did not fully understand I-RAM ;) 60% of statistics are made up on the spot

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                            About 2 seconds for Windows to startup. :omg: /ravi My new year's resolution: 2048 x 1536 Home | Music | Articles | Freeware | Trips ravib(at)ravib(dot)com

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                            Joshua Nussbaum
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                            u dont even see the progress bar move. 60% of statistics are made up on the spot

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                            • J Joshua Nussbaum

                              u dont even see the progress bar move. 60% of statistics are made up on the spot

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                              Ravi Bhavnani
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                              Joshua Nussbaum wrote:

                              u dont even see the progress bar move.

                              Ironically, that's the same behavior exhibited by my 256M Pentium-3. :) /ravi My new year's resolution: 2048 x 1536 Home | Music | Articles | Freeware | Trips ravib(at)ravib(dot)com

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                                Joshua Nussbaum wrote:

                                u dont even see the progress bar move.

                                Ironically, that's the same behavior exhibited by my 256M Pentium-3. :) /ravi My new year's resolution: 2048 x 1536 Home | Music | Articles | Freeware | Trips ravib(at)ravib(dot)com

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                                Ravi Bhavnani wrote:

                                that's the same behavior exhibited by my 256M Pentium-3

                                It just stays there, without moving, for one minute? ;P -- LuisR


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                                  Ravi Bhavnani wrote:

                                  that's the same behavior exhibited by my 256M Pentium-3

                                  It just stays there, without moving, for one minute? ;P -- LuisR


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                                  Ravi Bhavnani
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                                  Seasons change while my PC boots. :) /ravi My new year's resolution: 2048 x 1536 Home | Music | Articles | Freeware | Trips ravib(at)ravib(dot)com

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                                  • J Joshua Nussbaum

                                    Windows XP Startup time with 1GB I-RAM[^] pretty damn fast 60% of statistics are made up on the spot

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                                    Like everyone else here "I want", now I wonder how quickly Gentoo would boot... :rolleyes: Ed

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                                    • R Ravi Bhavnani

                                      About 2 seconds for Windows to startup. :omg: /ravi My new year's resolution: 2048 x 1536 Home | Music | Articles | Freeware | Trips ravib(at)ravib(dot)com

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                                      Dan Neely
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                                      Cool. Would reduce my home PCs boot time by a 3rd. currently: 20s mobo bios, 20s raid bios, 20s windows. (1gig ram 2.4gig A64x2)

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                                      • J Joshua Nussbaum

                                        Windows XP Startup time with 1GB I-RAM[^] pretty damn fast 60% of statistics are made up on the spot

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                                        • J Joshua Nussbaum

                                          Windows XP Startup time with 1GB I-RAM[^] pretty damn fast 60% of statistics are made up on the spot

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                                          David Wulff
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                                          Cool. It could BSOD, reboot, submit the error report and install the update before you've even noticed that your Word document had disapeared.


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