Mini-ITX boards hibernation boot times

[analographi]

numlock doesn't make a difference.
grafic ram doesn't either
drive also not
bootmenue can't be disabled (advanced or normal) or so.

tried all that already legacy support is for the touchscreen which is same as a mouse and keyboard

[analographi]

I installed tiny XP revision 9 and I'm down to 30seconds return from hypernation now. (from key turn)

Tomorrow I'll install 1GB of RAM and a 7200RPM SATAII hard drive. I'll let you know how much I could squeeze out

[analographi]

Well, I upgraded the HardDrive to SATAII with 7200 RPM (Western Digital Scorpio WD3200BJKT - with freefall sensor) and did a check in HD-Tach. It is only very little faster. around 60MBps average read speed, whereas the burstspeeds are much higher...

Anyways. This changed NOTHING at bootuptime.
I also downgraded RAM to 1GB which only gained about 1second.

Bottom line:
TinyXP has gained me 5 seconds return from hibernation time.
1GB or 2GB Ram didn't change a lot. about 1 second.
SATAII instead of SATAI, and 7200RPM instead of 5400RPM didn't change anything at all.


So, if you tweak, tweak in BIOS, Tweak windows.

[gs-ireland]

Here is a great site to optimise XP boot times:

Hacking Windows XP: Speed Up Your Boot - OS, Software & Networking by ExtremeTech

It details the following tweaks:

-Working with the BIOS
-Changing the Boot Order of Your Drives
-Using the Quick Boot Feature of the BIOS
-Modifying the Operating System Boot
-Disabling the System Boot Screen
-Modifying an Existing boot.ini File
-Disabling Unneeded Hardware Devices
-What Hardware Devices Should I Disable?
-Removing Extra Fonts for Speed
-Disabling Unneeded Services
-Bare-Bones System Service Setup
-Recommended Service Setup
-Optimizing the Location of the Boot Files
-Using Other Shareware Boot Defrag Programs
-Boot Time Defrag with O&O Defrag
-Summary