Windows XP 30 seconds boot up on a Tiny computer with a 2.8GHz CPU!

This is really for the benefit of those who are looking at this on ebay (listing 280305039093). Anyway, it's an old Tiny PC with new guts - a socket 478 Gigabyte motherboard, a Pentium 4 2.8GHz CPU and 768MB of RAM. Fastest single core CPU system I've ever come across.

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Science & Technology

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• pentium 4
• tiny computer
• windows xp
• boot time
• cpu
• gigabyte

[xXZombiFreakXx]

my pc says ''REBOOT AND SELECT PROPER BOOT DEVICE OR INSERT BOOT MEDIA IN SELECTED BOOT DEVICE AND PRESS A KEY'' under start up, what should i do!?

[Orrsome1967]

Hi,

That sounds like either the hard drive IDE cable has become loose, or the hard drive itself has packed up. Try going into BIOS, and see if your hard drive is detected, If it is, then chances are your hard drive is okay but we could be looking at a virus that's corrupted the boot file of windows. In that event, the best option would be to do a fresh install of Windows. Good luck and please keep me informed.

[minigunexo]

My start-up is a tiny bit faster than here.

[minigunexo]

Watching this on a 1.81 amd athlon 2800+,512 mb ram and a radeon 9250 128mb

[mixomai]

 i have 2,66GHZ 512RAM 30sec

[ladygagagerbilDBZfan]

pentium 4 2.0 GHz and 512 mb ram

[hburke7799]

im watching this on a pentium 4 2.8 ghz and 256 mb ram

[Skikov]

The boot speed, pre windows loading, most depends on motherboard in my opinion (and of course bios settings).

[zell950]

my computer start in 3:00 minutes!!

[DannyV1991]

same processor 11 seconds boom!

[TheVessapaperimuumio]

@boatba1

Yes, if by "nothing" you mean the user has not installed every possible toolbar and other malware. Installing good software properly does not make a copy of Windows slow.

Plus of course the machine is fast in light basic use. Pentium 4 is a high performance chip. Was back then and is today.