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  1. 02-Oct-2010 #16
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    Hopefully this new boot program will eliminate the PC speaker 'beep' at system start up.

    To speed up your computer add a SSD hard drive, should cut your boot time by half.
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    My two year old imac goes from powered down to running the desktop in seconds....

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    Quote Originally Posted by Eyebiter View Post
    Hopefully this new boot program will eliminate the PC speaker 'beep' at system start up.

    To speed up your computer add a SSD hard drive, should cut your boot time by half.
    My current PC doesn't do the beep. Some BIOSes have an option that lets you disable it, or you could pop the case and physically disconnect the internal PC speaker from the motherboard. The beeps can actually be a useful diagnostic aid if something goes wrong and the system refuses to boot, but if it really annoys you...
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    I don't know a huge amount about computers - but I always thought the real key here was to get the operating system on some sort of flash storage drive so essentially the spinning element of the hard disk is eliminated. I got a mate who's an systems architect for a massive networking company and he alwayss says that the slowest thing in a computer is the hard drive....
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    My PC takes 22 seconds to boot up.
    My MAC takes twice that.
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    Quote Originally Posted by shootemindehead View Post
    My PC takes 22 seconds to boot up.
    Wow! Windows 7?
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    Haven't got 7 yet. But my wife's Win 7 laptop is pretty quick to boot up too.
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