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Startup times in Jaguar... (Page 2)
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powermatt,
I should have been a bit clearer in my original post--I have a total of 512 megs of ram (I added one stick of 256 to the standard 256) in my Quicksilver 733 edu.
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This is a really interesting thread, repetative though it may be.
My question: I have a Blue and White G3 400. I have upgraded it with a 7200 40 gig UltraATA Western Digital 2mb buffer hd and 640mb PC133 RAM (I plan on moving it to a Quicksilver case someday ). My start up time in 10.2.1 is just under three minutes. How much an impact would a G4 upgrade have? I mainly use my system for some amature sound work, MP3 encoding, and gaming. How much an impact would, say, a Powerlogix 550 G4 upgrade have for me in these tasks. And would the faster proc speed up the boot much or does it depend more on the HDD and bus speeds?
At $279+ship/tax, its a pricey upgrade for a college student.
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Originally posted by vasu:
My Dual 867 boots up to a usable state in about 28 seconds.
-vasu
Yes -- about 26-28 seconds... not too bad!
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Originally posted by PowerMatt:
What makes his 733 (edu model) with less ram, boot faster than mine with more ram? I want to shave off another few seconds.
I guess it is due to what people call the POST check. The computer checks your memory before starting. Since you have the double amount it takes longer.
There used to be a way to skip the memory check under OS 9, and it made a nice different in the booting time. There is probably the same option under OSX, but i don't know what it is. Anybody?
villa
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Originally posted by bosolevu:
What are your startup times in 10.2 using any of the Dual Powermacs?
With 10.2.1 on a Dual Ghz Quicksilver with soundsticks: 38.5 seconds.
I added the .5 because at 38s the desktop was up and the dock was just appearing.
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I'm not in front of my computer now, but I know that with my dual 1GHz Jaguar boots in less than 30 seconds (unless my network is down; in which case it's about 1 minute).
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why not just use sleep for instant acces
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35 seconds till the thing is usable, until I can launch an app or whatever.
This is after I put in that sonnect tempo RAID card (ATA 133 set to RAID 0) with 2 120 gig 7200 RPM Western Digitals with 8 mb cache each.
This is on my SP 867 w. 640 Mb. and with all my prefs dating back to 10.0
Sorry, I was really excited about how fast this was, especially since at the time I put it in, I had made a complete shift to jaguar, so the speed bump was like whooo!!! But of course it runs for weeks without a restart so it is rather pointless.
But now I can't boot off my 200 gig partition for some freaking reason. It's retarded.
Anyways, RAID makes a big difference. And more RAM might actually slow down the startup a bit, cus there is more RAM to check...
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Originally posted by 11011001:
35 seconds till the thing is usable, until I can launch an app or whatever.
This is after I put in that sonnect tempo RAID card (ATA 133 set to RAID 0) with 2 120 gig 7200 RPM Western Digitals with 8 mb cache each.
This is on my SP 867 w. 640 Mb. and with all my prefs dating back to 10.0
Sorry, I was really excited about how fast this was, especially since at the time I put it in, I had made a complete shift to jaguar, so the speed bump was like whooo!!! But of course it runs for weeks without a restart so it is rather pointless.
But now I can't boot off my 200 gig partition for some freaking reason. It's retarded.
Anyways, RAID makes a big difference. And more RAM might actually slow down the startup a bit, cus there is more RAM to check...
Can I setup a RAID without adding anything to my G4 now or do I have to buy a card?
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About 40 secs on my QS dp1000 w/ 1.5 gigs of ram, with both hard disks on the internal controller.
If I install the SIIG ata133 card, bootup takes 65 secs and deep sleep does not work. So I pulled it
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