CF 29 boot vs atom 450

I have Win 7 installed freshly on a CF 29 and i just got a EEE 1005PE which has the atom 450. The atom got a score of 2.3 for processor in 7 and the CF 29 got a 2.6. Dont know why that makes sense as the TB is 1.4GHz and the EEE is 1.66GHz.

Anyways the EEE boots almost immediately into 7 while the TB takes about 4x as long. I would understand if it had a SSD but this model does not.

This is not a complaint but a rather inquiry as to why this is so.

 

Any ! warnings in device manager
Do you have the stock slow 40GB or 60GB drive
Is you ram equivalent
You can disable items in the bios not needed to speed up the boot

Alex

 

What is your Boot sequence? Are you taking the time to spin up and seek from an empty CD/DVD every time you boot? How about counting your RAM, over and over, every time.

There is a lot of tuning on a PC to reduce start-up time, when you put Win7 on the CF-29, you blew all that effort from the OEM out the door and must do it yourself. We used to use a program, I think that it was called BootVis, to help with this.

 

Bootvis does give a start-up boost, but not spectacular.
Before the start-up moving sliderbar (how is it called ) was moving 12 times, after bootvis 9 times.

 

Well they are both brand new systems and they do not have any errors. I have 1536 ddr ram, while the asus has 1024 ddr2 ram. I do have the slow stock 40GB so that is the culprit as of now.

I am aware of all the tune ups, i actually created a slim XP i used before installing 7. There is no tool to really slim 7 as of yet.

So i was just wondering if 7 gave my processor a higher score than the asus yet it boots literally almost immediately into 7 while the TB takes a little while. Not to mention the asus has the bloat from factory. So this more of a theory ?

 

The difference you are seeing will almost ALWAYS be in the graphics chipset;

Try setting your Toughbook to classic mode (Disable Aero) & see if if boots faster.

mnem <~~~Booty~~~<<<

 

you can use v-lite and the Vista AIK to enlighten win7

 

I had the same expierence with really slow boot times with Windows 7 and I had aero disabled so I feel your pain.

 

Well as Aero will not run on any model of CF-29 that I am aware of, I am not sure how this could be the problem.

While it does have an optimization routine, BootVis is a diagnostic tool to help you see graphically what it taking the longest amount of time in your boot-up process.