Thinkpad bootup times. (including bios and OS)

What is ur bootup time?

If I am lucky, roughly around 1 minute plus, including passwords.

 

T61p-35 seconds, Windows 7 Ultimate RC (soon to be retail).

 

It took 9 second to get to the windows loading screen from the moment I push the power button. From pushing the button to windows desktop (after entering the password), took 30 seconds.

I have a X200
- OCZ Agility 60GB
- 4GB DDR3 RAM
- 2.4GHz P8600

 

28.43 seconds. That's starting the T410 with my fingerprint and that auto-entering my Windows password, and connecting to my Wireless network.

T410: Core i7-620m, 4GB DDR3, Corsair P128 SSD.

 

Probably less than 30 seconds, although I haven't timed it - I'll time it next boot and report back. I've noticed that password protection slows down the boot time rather significantly, even when discounting the time it takes to type in the password.

Before my Windows 7 and Intel SSD upgrade, my boot was over a minute, probably a minute and a half at least.

 

I have bios passwords and a encrypted hard drive so I have login. But if you don't have any of those and you have an SSD it can be quite fast...

Getting out of sleep is probably less than 3s (though I have to login).

 

Using a clean install, my boot time is about 30 seconds, and this includes an encrypted HD. Then again, boot times are almost meaningless today. I reboot maybe once or twice a month for updates and whatnot—the rest of the time I’m sleeping or hibernating.

 

Holy crap... Really? That's i guess understandable but how are boot times meaningless? It's all about squeezing as much productivity as you can in a minute these days or at least that's the aim of corporations/business, time is money, and why do you think Phoenix has an instant post BIOS?

 

I guess if you reboot daily/many times per day it’s not meaningless to you, but I don’t know anyone who does that—and if 30 seconds is too long for someone to wait once a month, well, I guess they have much bigger issues.

 

notice everyone who are quoting around the 30s boot time have SSDs and windows 7. so with a standard HDD, you get boot times in the order of 30s?

 

Yes—thirty seconds with a 7200RPM encrypted HD.

 

1.3 +, when you add, Passwords, dual boot, SQL, virtual machines... and so on...
but im not complaining, for all the tings im running on my poor T61p, im actually
extremely happy with the performance.

 

Wanna trade that nice T9300 for my T7700 lol just kiddin.

 

Startup (from power button to desktop, including fingerprint login to domain): 1:07.1
Shutdown (from the desktop until the power light goes out): 14.3

Any tips on speeding things up? There's a delay at the login screen before the fingerprint icon shows up. The domain login seems to be slow, even when on the domain's network.

 

I boot up in less than 30 seconds, on a T400s running windows 7 with a spinning disk. I'm always thrilled with the start up time. And coming out of sleep is simply amazing.

 

I boot in 5min and 35 second on my Asus M6ne...
And another 2 min to be able to surf with firefox...
Now I really understand why I want a T410 or W510....

 

wow...you guys all have faaaaaaaaaaaaast boot times...my t400s needs 2,3 minutes, most of which is looking at the black screen that is win7 booting up, and most of that the hdd light is not on/blinking. i wonder why.

 

I don't know how to can measure the boot-up time when I have the fingerprint logon. I don't use the auto-logon from bootup on the windows password screen as it slowed things down. I also took my password away in windows as it seems more secure this way on a network. I don't have a reliable way to calculate the time, but can everyone using Win7 look at the Events Viewer, under Applications and Services Logs > Microsoft > Windows > Diagnostics-Performance and post their Boot performance and Shutdown performance.

This would not be, of course, including the BIOS time. I think the BIOS time on my PC is influenced by the TPM module.

Also, for those that posted their time I presume this is cold boots and not reboots, right?

Almost forgot - my Windows Boot times (in the event log) are ~ 34s - 36s and shutdown is ~3.5s - 4.0s. I reboot many times a day usually after reconfiguring so I am sure there is some slow down from final setup routines.

edit: Just realized the blackberry has a chronograph. From pressing the power button to seeing the windows flag - 7.89s (took the fingerprint scan off). From the flag to viewing the desktop - 23.03s. This includes the time it takes to read and load the 256MB RAM disk image - so maybe 1.5s less without it. And the bonus of the SSD is that as soon as you see your desktop, the PC is as responsive as normal. The background activities that happen after the desktop is drawn are not noticeable.

 

My PC seems to spend time going over the CD/DVD drive, then the card reader light flashes, then the network light comes on. Are you on a network? Try unplugging, pull the optical drive out (it is removable on the 400s, right?), disable the TPM module and Intel's virtualization extensions in BIOS. Unplug all USB devices attached to the PC and measure again.

 

I stand corrected. The 30 second time frame was going off memory. I semi-time the boot up this AM from a cold start and it took about a minute

 

FWIW, I’m on a network, have my DVD-RW in/on—and I use both the TPM and Intel’s virtualization extensions.