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    Speeding up my boot up times?

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by Ferrari353, Jan 21, 2012.

  1. Ferrari353

    Ferrari353 Notebook Evangelist

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    Alright so I was reading some article on how to speed up boot times and it talked about doing stuff in MSConfig (like setting it to use 2 cores if you're lucky enough to have it, which makes me think it's an old article, and setting the delay to 3 seconds). I set my delay to 3 seconds and I set it to 4 cores and I set the RAM to 8124 or w/e the number is for 8GB and I got a BSOD on boot. I ended up starting in safemode and undoing everything and then it worked fine, but what did I do wrong?

    Also, while I was timing my boot, that RAID configuration screen was bugging me and I was wondering how I can get rid of it because I'm not using RAID and I don't plan on using it at all in the near future.
     
    Ferrari353, Jan 21, 2012
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    If you haven't already, get an SSD. Your boot time will be cut by a massive amount.
    If you've already got an SSD and you're not using RAID, it should be set up in AHCI mode, not RAID.
     
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  3. Ferrari353

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    I have an ssd with win7 and the program files on it and the hdd has the program data and user folder. Also, one of the comments in the guide said setting the number of cpus destroys an essential windows file so you shouldn't do it.

    Anyway, how do I get rid of the raid screen? It's the very first thing to show up and it says press ctrl I to enter raid config mode or w/e.

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    Windows already boots using all cores, those settings are placebo and are only there for troubleshooting.

    An SSD is the only way to improve it by much apart from disabling a few startup programs.
     
    ratchetnclank, Jan 21, 2012
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    Open up an elevated (run as admin) command prompt and type:

    Hit enter and restart.

    Then in bios change RAID to AHCI.

    Restart a few times and then re-install the latest Intel RST. Sorted!

    I found that using the RAID controller was actually faster by 1 second, however you do get that pointless splash screen.

    Also run -> msconfig and disable startup entries that are not related to drivers, etc. Stuff like Word/Adobe/Apple can be disabled.
     
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    will AHCI help anything?
     
    Ferrari353, Jan 21, 2012
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    Im in AHCI wit a crucial m4. I disabled everything other then the bare essentials in MSconfig and i boot to windows in 17 seconds, after entering my 12 character password too.
     
    Joe85, Jan 21, 2012
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