What's your average boot up time?

[milanca]

IOFireWireFamily.kext and IOFireWireSBP2.kext removed. I dont use any firewire ports so i removed them. It was fast booting even before, when i removed them i think it's a bit faster. Its absolutely accurate cause i used stopwatch on my cellphone, from vista bootloader when i pick Mac (hit enter) till desktop shows up.

[Puttabong]

@milanca, I have simply disabled Firewire in BIOS, because I currently have no need for it either.

[milanca]

Oh yes, simplier and smarter way. i did it longer way but never mind, its fine working.

[LawlessPPC]

a reset takes about 5 secs!!!! Ooops thats my Amiga lol. Seriously got to get to the reason I dont have quick start up times of either of the systems ive got OSX on

[ToroLoco]

Well I have noticed that my booting time increase a lot lately. It takes at least the double time than initial did. Now it takes about 2min while at the beginning it was less than a minute.

Since it is the same hardware, do you have any idea what is causing this delay? How can I decrease the time without having to make a clear install?

Vista on the same HD takes about 2 - 3 minutes.

[LawlessPPC]

clear all caches with onyx makes a big difference on the time apps startup at. As for start up I dont know if it makes a difference Im guessing it will. I cant say for certain as i use my system as a utility more than anything so i dont use it for all kinds of progs if that makes sense

[cgsheen]

Originally Posted by ToroLoco Well I have noticed that my booting time increase a lot lately. It takes at least the double time than initial did. Now it takes about 2min while at the beginning it was less than a minute. Since it is the same hardware, do you have any idea what is causing this delay? How can I decrease the time without having to make a clear install? Vista on the same HD takes about 2 - 3 minutes.

OS X usually gets quicker the first several times you boot as it learns what you need and what you don't. If it's longer than 30 or 40 seconds it's probably because it's stalled momentarily looking for or not finding things it thinks it should have (looking for hardware not there? hardware that's not initializing properly?) Has anything changed?

10.5.4 continues to boot in about 25-30 seconds on my 780G / Athlon64 X2 install. Vista Home Premium x64 (64-bit) boots in 30-35 seconds on the same machine (Vista is NOT on the same HD as my OSx86 install)...

[Aydinz]

im using

AMD Athlon X2 4200+
2GB DDR Ram

and i boot in 30secs, that seems to be the average.
is it true that with a mac ram will make it perform better then CPU i.e. the more ram i have the faster it will go?

Cheers

[go2mars]

16 seconds once power button is pushed until Desktop appears and is responsive.

Using Compaq C714NR Laptop (Hey, it was $299!)
with iATKOS v4.1i

[R0GUE]

There a some incredibly fast boot times being reported here. I sure hope the nforce driver gets an update soon as I still have to wait around 2 minutes from power on to desktop.