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A small guide may be useful for some folks here

A shortcut to speed up your boot time in your PC. Definately something cool to learn about. Read on, as I will show you some cool tips on it


Every time you press the power button, your PC makes you wait unnecessarily. To get your hardware to run faster, I will help you by removing unnecessary excess settings from the boot process. First, turn on the PC and, while it is booting up, press the key indicated on screen that shows the Main Menu for the BIOS settings; it's normally the key, but your system may specify a different key.

When you enter the BIOS main menu, the first trick to efficiently boot up your system is through bypassing the system memory check. The system memory check is the part of the Power-On-Self-Test routine that counts the RAM in your PC. In older days, this process is done to ensure RAM are in working order, before they boot into their Operating system. But it is rather unnecessary. So, to remove it, go to the Boot area and look for a setting called Set Quick POST or similar name. Set it to Enabled.

Next, to prevent your PC from looking for a floppy drive, remove the floppy drive from the top of your boot drive list. This avoids the floppy drive to start up and spin, which reduces the boot time needed to start up. In the Boot section, look for an area named Set Boot Device Order or another similar name. Use the keyboard arrow keys to select the IDE Hard Drive (Normally, IDE0 is a default setup on most motherboards, that signifies the primary master hard drive) entry and move it to the top of the list by pressing -+. If you want to boot from a floppy later, you can always change the boot of the floppy drive in the main menu of the BIOS.

Finally, exit and save your settings (many systems will tell you to use the key for this); the boot process will resume. If you encounter any problems, simply re-enter your PC Setup program and you can reload the BIOS settings default and you can do it from scratch again, by repeating the methods.

In summary, your computer starts up faster, minus all the unnecessary delays to start up the PC. The older settings were merely boot up standards for older computers, which has been inherited to the current days. Some of those settings would be deemed obsolete these days, as they do not rely on some of the settings to fully run the PC.