Gigabyte Z68X-UD7 boot time

[favas]

Hi everyone! Just bought the title's motherboard and so here is my first post!

Before upgrading to s1155, I was using a system based on s775. More specifically, I had a P5Q Deluxe mobo and a Q9550 CPU.

I have to say that my previous setup, was booting much faster than the one (Z68 UD7/2500k) I owe now. When pressing the Power On button, the motherboard, after recognising the cpu/ram speed, will show a screen in which the hard drives are recognised (takes a few secs) then another screen in which the "Loading Operating System" message is appeared, and finally Windows will start loading...

I enabled a "Quick Boot" choice in BIOS settings but nothing changed.

Is there any option to bypass any of these steps, so as to radically reduce boot up time?

Sorry for my English.

[Section8]

I believe there are a few options in the BIOS that you can disable.  Show full screen LOGO and something like Display DROM UI and Banner can be disabled, may add a few seconds.

[favas]

@Section8 thanks for he reply!

I disabled the "DROM UI and Banner", but there's no gain at all...
The only way to bypass the "Serial ATA AHCI BIOS version isrc 1.20e" screen, is by setting the SATA at IDE Mode. When at AHCI/RADI mode, the screen will always appear.
I didn't find any way though to bypass the "Loading Operation System..." screen.

Although I find Z68X-UD7 an very nice mobo (nice layout, tons of options, easy o/c), I personally think that the boot up time is a huge drawback.

[Dark Mantis]

Hi and welcome.

Firstly let me say that Gigabyte  have always been known for their longer boot times than some other makes. Hopefully this is because they are doing a more thorough job!

If you have enabled Quick Boot turned off the full screen Logo (not that it makes any speed difference) and disabled any items like ESATA and USB3.0 that you don't use there isn't much more you can do. The Loading operating system... is doing just that and can't be bypassed.

You just have to streamline your BIOS as much as possible so it's not doing unneccesary jobs. I would mention that it won't help if you are loading any of the bundled software either.

[Gloup_Gloup]

Hi all, 

One of the only other things that can speed up the boot process, is your hardware.

CPU, RAM, OC, SSD, etc.

Can you imagine if you copy Windows fully or partially in memory.
In a RAM-Disk.
The speed would fulgurente.
Obviously, there must be at least from 16 to 32 Gb of RAM on the motherboard.

Finally, perhaps the startup would be slower because of procedure for copy of Windows (or partial) on the RAM-Disk, but then this would be very, very fast.

Gloup_Gloup

[Dark Mantis]

Yes this is true Gloup_Gloup there is nothing else to touch it as far as pure speed goes but it is not a suitable option for everybody and as you have already mentioned you do require a massive amount of free memory.