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If your computer has a long boot time and you are waiting impatiently, there may be many reasons. If you want to improve the boot time of your computer, you can first find out that the boot time is slow. The reason is to solve it one by one.

First, the hardware factor affecting the startup speed

Through the practice, the author found that the main accessories that affect the computer startup speed are the motherboard and the hard disk, but have little to do with the CPU. That is to say, under the same conditions, the expensive Pentium 4 computer and the cheap Celeron 4 start at the same speed.

The motherboard is a "base" of various computer accessories. There are many tasks to be done at boot time, such as self-test, search for various ports, and various external devices. Therefore, reducing the self-test time, reducing external equipment, and improving efficiency can increase the startup speed. If the computer is connected to a peripheral such as a scanner or a USB hard disk, it may slow down the system. It is recommended that you connect these peripherals when you need them. The USB device can be connected to the win7 system after booting.

If the network card is not properly set, it will obviously slow down the system startup speed. If your computer does not need a network card, then directly unplug the PCI network card, the integrated network card can be shielded by the BIOS, so as not to affect the startup speed. Many motherboards detect integrated network cards much faster than independent network cards. This is one of the reasons why some computers have been able to access the Internet after more than a minute.

The main factor determining the performance of the motherboard is the motherboard chipset. The main factor determining the boot speed is the disk performance and driver performance of the motherboard chipset. At present, the main brands of motherboard chipset are Intel, SiS, VIA, ATi, nVIDIA, and the best disk performance is Intel and SiS. Intel is an IT giant, and there is no one in the IT industry. It accounts for more than 60% of the motherboard chipset market share. The popularity of SiS is low, and the market share of motherboard chipsets is less than 10%. This may be related to insufficient publicity. However, on the AMD platform, its disk performance is the best and the price is the cheapest.

In order to reduce the boot time, some motherboard manufacturers will do some special design, which can shorten the BIOS self-test time to 5 seconds. We can choose different motherboard manufacturers according to their own needs, instead of listening to the dealer's recommendation.

In addition to the power-on self-test, the computer startup time is mainly used to read system files from the hard disk. The hard disk works by reading and writing data on a high-speed rotating disk by moving the head (Figure 1). Then the higher the disk speed, the more data the head reads per unit time, which is very beneficial for system startup. In addition, hard drives with fast seek times and large caches can also significantly increase boot time. Promising purchasers or DIYs can consider Western Digital's "Raptor" series of hard drives, which are tightly funded or can be selected by Hitachi's large cache hard drives, which often receive performance awards.

The computer is a high-tech product that is both soft and hard. The accessory setting and system optimization are also indispensable weapons for starting the speed.

Second, the setting and optimization of accessories

1. BIOS optimization settings of the motherboard

Turn off the redundant IDE channel, USB device and other hardware, you can use “None” . Automatically detect the hard disk with “IDE HDD AUTO DETECTION”. Do not perform memory detection, open each cache, enter "Advanced CMOS Setup", set "Quick Boot" to "Enable", you can not detect more than 1MB of memory.

“IDE 0 Master/Slave PIO/DMA Mode, IDE 1 Master/Slave PIO/DMA Mode” The hard disk sequence (mode) is all set to “Auto”.

Go to the “Advanced BIOS Features” option and move the cursor to the “First Boot Device” option. Select “HDD-0”” to boot directly from the hard drive, so that it will start for a few seconds. Move the cursor to "Quick Power On Self Test" to set to “Enabled”. For "Boot UP Floppy Seek", set to "Disabled". For a memory quality good memory, it is recommended to set it to “2” in the “SDRAM CAS Latency” option.

Tip: For an effect with the same settings, the English name may be different in different motherboard BIOS.

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