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Author:  forquare1 [ Fri Oct 01, 2010 9:59 am ]
Post subject:  Change to 'Bios' will make for PCs that boot in seconds
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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.


Continue reading here.

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?
Author:  pcernie [ Fri Oct 01, 2010 12:14 pm ]
Post subject:  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:
Author:  rustybucket [ Fri Oct 01, 2010 2:59 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Change to 'Bios' will make for PCs that boot in seconds
BIOS.

Not Bios. :roll:

BBC fail.
Author:  paulzolo [ Fri Oct 01, 2010 3:55 pm ]
Post subject:  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?
Author:  JJW009 [ Fri Oct 01, 2010 5:15 pm ]
Post subject:  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.
Author:  cloaked_wolf [ Fri Oct 01, 2010 7:06 pm ]
Post subject:  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?
Author:  JJW009 [ Sat Oct 02, 2010 2:46 am ]
Post subject:  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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