Recent content by FloppyD

Ah yes, that might help. I'll try that next. So far, I've been able to cut the bootup by 30 seconds by upgrading my bios (didn't even know that was possible haha). I can now get to desktop in 1:30. I can try switching up boot drives. I now have my hard drive first, but the DVD drive is empty...

Booting up in safe mode didn't change anything. external power is connected. Now, I did notice in the BIOS that I could choose between IDE or AHCI mode, currently using IDE. Would changing this do anything? It's just about the only thing I could change in the BIOS that looked like it would do...

I've tried the diagnostic startup, it didn't change the boot time, but for some reason every startup program is disabled now even when using selective startup. So yeah, not much of a help here.. Should I try safe mode? Anyway, after booting up a few times now, the Prefetch cache hasn't been...

Thanks for your reply! I measured the startup time by completely powering down. From the moment I pressed the power button I timed the startup up to the moment the desktop shows. I'm not sure about the fast boot. Can I view this in the bios? Also I'm not sure about the intel thing, where could...

Hi! I've been looking into the boot time of my laptop (ASUS N71Jq), which I've had for about 1 year now. I measured 2:30 to 3:00 from pressing power to desktop. Doing this I've found that the boot time for the Prefetch cache has a rather long degradation: - EventData StartTime...