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Change to 'Bios' will make for PCs that boot in seconds

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forquare1

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Change to 'Bios' will make for PCs that boot in seconds


	Code: New PCs could start in just seconds, thanks to an update to one of the oldest parts of desktop computers. The upgrade will spell the end for the 25-year-old PC start-up software known as Bios that initialises a machine so its operating system can get going.

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Not the best technical article I've ever read, but in plain and simple terms - woohoo!
I am also wondering if this will help Hackintoshers do their thing?

Fri Oct 01, 2010 9:59 am

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Re: Change to 'Bios' will make for PCs that boot in seconds

In the context of the article, my idiot father threw out a perfectly good USB floppy drive :roll:

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Fri Oct 01, 2010 12:14 pm

rustybucket

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Re: Change to 'Bios' will make for PCs that boot in seconds

BIOS.

Not Bios. :roll:

BBC fail.

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Fri Oct 01, 2010 2:59 pm

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Re: Change to 'Bios' will make for PCs that boot in seconds

It will still take ages for the OS to load, so what’s a few seconds?

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Fri Oct 01, 2010 3:55 pm

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Re: Change to 'Bios' will make for PCs that boot in seconds


	paulzolo wrote: It will still take ages for the OS to load, so what’s a few seconds?

If the new BIOS makes the hardware abstraction layer simpler, then it could drastically reduce the time it takes Windows to boot.

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Fri Oct 01, 2010 5:15 pm

cloaked_wolf

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Re: Change to 'Bios' will make for PCs that boot in seconds

I managed to tweak my desktop to boot from power on to desktop screen in 30 seconds and that took effort to speed it up from 60 seconds plus. A few seconds is going to be okay but half of the time is still from log-in to desktop which I don't think this would help with?

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Fri Oct 01, 2010 7:06 pm

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Re: Change to 'Bios' will make for PCs that boot in seconds


	cloaked_wolf wrote: A few seconds is going to be okay but half of the time is still from log-in to desktop which I don't think this would help with?

That's 99% down to how much crap you have set to load on your profile. A vanilla install goes from log-in to desktop in under 2 seconds on a modern PC.

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