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Change Your BIOS To Speedup Startup and Shutdown

by sleib 19. September 2008 11:59

The system BIOS runs through a series of steps in the POST (Power On Self Test) before it reads boot-up information. By disabling or speeding up some of these step you can speed up your system startup.

You can change the BIOS by going into the setup utility.

Boot up your system and press either the Delete, F1, or F10 key during startup. You'll see a menu with several items. Look for the following options in the "Boot" or "Advanced" Menu Items:

Quick Power On Self Test (POST) - Choose this option to run a shortened POST.
Change Your Boot Order - IChange the boot order so that your BIOS checks the hard disk first for booting, rather than taking more time to check other devices.
Boot Up Floppy Seek If you have a floppy drive - Disable this option if you have it, so your system will not spend extra time looking for your floppy drive.
Boot Delay - Some systems let you delay booting after you turn on your PC so that your hard drive gets a chance to start spinning before bootup. If you have this option it is probably unnecessary, so try disabling or turning it off.
Disable Extended Tests or Enable Rapid BIOS Boot - Your system may gie you the option of performing an in-depth test of system memory and components (an extended test) or rapidly running through the system and getting to bootup quickly. Either disable the extended tests or enable the Rapid BISO Boot..
Configure Drive Detection - Your BIOS may give you the option to automatically search for, identify, and configure different types of drives across multiple IDE and Serial ATA connections. This option setting usually shows up as AUTO in the IDE configuration choices.
User BIOS Regions - If you have this option it instructs the BIOS to search upper DOS memory (between 640 KB and 1 MB) for the existence of additional BIOS extension code. Such code exists on SCSI host adapters and on network cards that provide the ability to boot from a network server. Most users never use a SCSI interface so by setting this option value to No, Off, or Disabled to speed up boot time.