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Boot Windows Vista In Four Seconds
arcticstoat writes "Asus' budget motherboard wing, ASRock, claims that it's found a way to load a clean boot of Windows from a full shut down in just four seconds, using its new Instant Boot technology. The technology takes advantage of the S3 and S4 features of ACPI, which normally enable the Sleep/Standby and Hibernation modes in Windows respectively. However, by calling them at different times in the boot-up and shutdown process, Instant Boot enables you to boot up to your Windows desktop in three to four seconds, even after a proper shut down. Two modes are available; Fast mode, which uses S3 and boots up in around four seconds, and Regular Mode, which uses S4 and apparently takes between 20 and 22 seconds to boot. The advantage of Instant Boot when compared with normal Sleep and Hibernation modes is that you get the advantage of a clean boot of Windows, without what ASRock calls 'accumulated garbage data,' and you also get the security of knowing that you won't lose any data if there's a power cut and you lose AC power. There's also a video of it in action at the link above."
Unfortunately a proper shutdown takes 2 minutes ....
I'd boot Vista off my work PC in a millisecond if I could
If you're looking to combine rage and the internet, the best place to start would be a little known site http://youtube.com/ There are a few entries there which fail to call attention to the current fiscal difficulties of major world economies.
Does it come prepackaged with winrar serials, cracks, M$ documents and source code?
Really? I was sure I just learned Asus motherboards are such high quality because their engineers have a lame sense of humor, leading to a diminished social life with more time to devote towards motherboard perfection.
I pulled on a pair of boots and managed to beat their time by more than 3 seconds.
Surely the faster Windows can boot, the more work can be done by employees? :o)
Leave Anonymous Coward alone!!!!!! *tears*
3laws: No freebies, no backsies, GTFO.
I've tried to relieve my pent up agression by on posting it on Youtube, but the audio preview always makes me feel bad about myself.
it won't boot vista in 4 sec, never. at startup 3 expired anti virus programs, 4 messengers, 3 weather programs, 2 ad block...
The US Government is on the verge of nationalizing 3 failing automakers and you're concerned with how fast you can boot windows? Seriously? The failed
financial bailout may cause the US government to declare bankruptcy and you care about this shit? Get some priorities!
Okay, fine, instead of considering product purchases that would fix the economy, I'm going to take your advice and worry about the gubment bailing companies out.
OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG!!!!
THey're spending monEeeez to bail them outz!!!!
I'm so nervous! Worry worry worry worry worry!!!
Oh noes!!! Waaahhhh!!!1111
Wow, I see your point, that was so much more worthwhile than what I was doing before I read your post.
"I like to lick butts!" by MobileTatsu-NJG (#32700246) (Score:5, Informative)
The video suffers from YouTube syndrome. Symptoms of this condition include one or more minutes of stuff we don't care about. The condition is most extreme when the event we care about is of short duration. Although it is not entirely curable, it can be treated by posting the time of the interesting event in the comments section. In this case, the event in question occurs at 2:38. Remember, this is a treatment not a cure. The treatment still consumes bandwidth and time. In the future, we may have a Flash plug-in where the annotation feature can be used to denote points of interest, with the ability to skip to a keyframe just before said point. Until then, only video posters can prevent YouTube syndrome. Remember, if the event of interest in your video is of short duration, the video should not be any more than twice as long as the actual event. Introduction, at most, should identify you and/or your company. Anything that can be explained more efficiently as text should be put in the little text section that appears in the upper right.
For all intensive purposes, "whom" is no longer a word. That begs the question, "who cares"?
clean boot of Windows, without what ASRock calls 'accumulated garbage data,'
you also get the security of knowing that you won't lose any data
You insensitive clod! All my data IS accumulated garbage!
Have gnu, will travel.
I'm really beginning to like ASUS. Not only do I like their approach to hardware a lot, but that was the most straight forward, unintentionally entertaining, non-bullshit video I've EVER seen from a corporation. I mean, yeah, it was dippy YouTube stuff, but seriously; Can you imagine any other main stream computer company allowing their tech monkeys to represent the mothership without the message first passing through a legion of marketing directors, lawyers and various haircuts in suits? Hell no!
Imagine the plasticy, dumbed down crappola video with gawdawful elevator music and bad overlay graphic effects you would have gotten in nearly every other situation.
Damn. ASUS is run by humans!
-FL
Four seconds? That's nothing. I booted Windows Vista the very second I got my new machine to make way for Ubuntu.
What's that, you didn't mean literally kick? I see.
If you believe this, I have a desktop cold-fusion device that you can buy for $25.