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    Dell XPS 15 9550 Last BIOS time

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by Schmoo2k, Feb 6, 2016.

  1. Schmoo2k

    Schmoo2k Notebook Consultant

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    Quick poll to see what sort of boot times folks are getting (as mine is > 20secs).

    For a consistent test, please restart your machine (not cold boot) and then open Task Manager and click on the Start-up tab to see your "Last BIOS time"

    Prepare to be questioned if you have the fastest boot time!!!

    My setup: 4K, i7, 512SSD
     
    Schmoo2k, Feb 6, 2016
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  2. KoW210

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    10.4 seconds
     
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  3. LOUSYGREATWALLGM

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    Are you sure its your reboot time and not cold boot?
     
    LOUSYGREATWALLGM, Feb 6, 2016
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    I just did it again and this time it's 9.3 seconds. I have the 1080p, i5 with the 32gb SSD cache and the 5400 1TB HDD.

    I did it a third time and again it's 9.3 seconds.
     
    KoW210, Feb 6, 2016
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    10.9 seconds using Samsung 850 EVO M.2 SATA 256gb SSD. But just did a restart (which seems to have just done a cold restart) and it's now 17.6s! Third time doing a restart = 10.4s.

    This is on battery by the way.

    i5/1080p/8gb/256gb M.2 SATA SSD.
     
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    Fant, Feb 6, 2016
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  6. LOUSYGREATWALLGM

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    Interesting.

    @Fant
    Mind telling your specs?
     
    LOUSYGREATWALLGM, Feb 6, 2016
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    8.7 sec here.
     
    pubbypaws, Feb 6, 2016
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  8. Woodking

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    14.6 seconds here - pretty much the same 3 times in a row. That's on a 240GB SDD in the drive bay and nothing in the 32GB cache slot.

    I guess its a bit slow due to Avast perhaps as its classed as High in Startup Impact.
     
    Woodking, Feb 7, 2016
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    Actually none of those listed on that tab should have an impact on BIOS startup time. It refers strictly to the time taken before Windows starts loading (as reported by UEFI).
     
    ghtop, Feb 7, 2016
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  10. Woodking

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    Got you. Could my time be a bit longer as I am in Legacy mode then, as that's the way mine had to be set up to install the OS on the 2.5" SDD?
     
    Woodking, Feb 7, 2016
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    Here 9.2 s with i7/4K/512gb ssd/16gb ram
     
    caac88, Feb 7, 2016
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    40 seconds here (10 seconds for a normal cold boot). What settings are relevant for the BIOS time?
    Already tried all fastboot settings, BIOS is 1.1.9. It's a Samsung 950 pro in AHCI, Precision 5510 / Xeon (just an XPS with different graphics adapter).
     
    g.achrainer, Feb 7, 2016
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  13. Woodking

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    After a reinstall of Windows 10 with secure boot on and UEFI mode and latest BIOS & drivers mines now down to 7.2 seconds, yay! :p
     
    Woodking, Feb 8, 2016
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    9.8 sec with 1tb PM951 4k model
     
    saladin, Feb 8, 2016
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    11.7 with 512 4k Model / Raid / UEFI / IRST

    The total boot time of the machine till it's usable is not cool! My 4 year old laptop had a bios boot time of 4.5sec and was ready after a few other seconds
     
    lalalulu57, Feb 18, 2016
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