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  • Fast Boot Option?

    I have a stable OC with an E8400 and a GA-EP45-UD3R. Prior to this I was a Dell guy and was used to an option in the BIOS that read "Fast Boot". When enabled, the boot screen flew by and the OS booted quite quickly.

    I don't see anything like that in the Gigabyte BIOS, and I was wondering if I can improve on the already spectacular boot time (27 seconds cold boot to login screen Windows XP Pro). It seems as if the devices are detected in a flash, but then the BIOS enumerates the entire DMI pool and IRQ resources. I tried full screen logo, but that does nothing other than mask what is going on behing the logo screen anyway.

    Any ideas?

    -- Outer Marker.
    Gigabyte EP45-UD3R (F7 BIOS)
    Intel Pentium E8400 E0
    Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro
    G.Skill DDR2 1066 (2x2GB) 5-5-5-15 @ 2.0V~2.1V
    EVGA GeForce 9800 GT 512MB
    (3x) Seagate Barracuda 250GB SATA II Drives
    CORSAIR 650TX 650W PSU
    Cooler Master Centurion 5 Case
    XP Professional 32-bit SP3

    Stable E8400 OC - stock voltages
    Stable E8400 OC - 3.83
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