Computer Boot Time

Hey guys, ever since I've built this computer (It's been about a year since I put it all together) its seemed to have an extraordinarily long boot time for what it's running on. It takes about 40 seconds for it to go from the first screen it boots up to the Windows log-in screen. It also seems to transfer data at a low rate. It took about 12 minutes for it to load 5 gigs of data onto my friend's flash drive, and it doesn't load up things (games/programs) very quickly. I always felt like it should be running a lot faster for the amount of money I put into it. So here are the specs:

Asus P6T Deluxe V2

Intel 920 at stock speed

6 gigs of corsair dominator ram running at 1600 mhz

Ati 5870 video card

1000w power supply

2x 10000 RPM Velociraptor HDDs running in a RAID 0

Any help and/or insight would be much appreciated!

40 seconds boot isn't that bad. I was up to 1:30 before I got an SSD - Now it's 45 seconds. USB 2.0 transfers aren't going to be that fast either. Download and run HD Tune if you want to know how fast your RAID 0 array really is.

hey, thanks for the info guys, I just don't know that sort of stuff. So I ran a HD benchmark test on the RAID0 and it came out to around a 174 mb average read speed although it dipped down to 60 at one point. Is that fairly normal?

Hey guys, ever since I've built this computer (It's been about a year since I put it all together) its seemed to have an extraordinarily long boot time for what it's running on. It takes about 40 seconds for it to go from the first screen it boots up to the Windows log-in screen. It also seems to transfer data at a low rate. It took about 12 minutes for it to load 5 gigs of data onto my friend's flash drive, and it doesn't load up things (games/programs) very quickly. I always felt like it should be running a lot faster for the amount of money I put into it. So here are the specs:

Asus P6T Deluxe V2

Intel 920 at stock speed

6 gigs of corsair dominator ram running at 1600 mhz

Ati 5870 video card

1000w power supply

2x 10000 RPM Velociraptor HDDs running in a RAID 0

Any help and/or insight would be much appreciated!

ChThunder

Your boot time also depends on whatever other programs (or crap) you have to run at startup. I find it faster to disable any program I want to run upon startup and then just starting the programs after my computer boots. I shaved a good 10-15 seconds or more off my startup time.

My computer boots and is ready to go in about 30-35 seconds.

Phenom II x4 940 @ 3.4GHz

320GB WD Black Scorpio 7200RPM (main)

500GB WD Black Caviar 7200RPM (second HDD)

4GB DDR2 800

2x GTX 280 in SLI

So it seems about average on the boot up time for you. Check what programs load upon startup and see if you can disable any of them from loading, then just open them quick after your computer boots.

hey, thanks for the info guys, I just don't know that sort of stuff. So I ran a HD benchmark test on the RAID0 and it came out to around a 174 mb average read speed although it dipped down to 60 at one point. Is that fairly normal?

ChThunder

That's about right.

http://www.tweaktown.com/reviews/1573/western_digital_velociraptor_10_000rpm_hard_disk_in_raid_0/index.html

cool, thanks for the help guys.

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