Phoenix BIOS Boots in 1 Second, Loads Win 7

[yang]

All i care about right now is when can consumers benefit from this tech demo.

 

[zelog]

What exactly is a hardware OS?

 

[hemelskonijn]

for those afraid of not being able to enter the bios i guess i have the uber solution.
press and hold a few keys on your keyboard and it will give you a keyboard error in case the bios is not set to hold at a keyboard error you could just unplug your hard drives and create an error that way.

However my guess would be either a key combination or a simple button on the I/O shield or mobo will be added to power it in to BIOS setup mode.

 

[Guest]

Beats my MacBook with OS X. I have always wondered when the Bios manufactures were going to find a way to speed up their end.

 

[okibrian]

The BIOS speed is very nice, but look what they did to the GUI in the video. I could make my PC boot much faster too if I pulled out everything like they did. Hell, I'll just boot to a DOS prompt and kick everyone’s ass in speed.

 

[jawshoeaw]

Finally! My stupid computer spends more time in the bios screen than it does booting, now that I've put in an SSD. I even turned off software raid after the annoying extra five seconds added to boot times by a 2nd BIOS screen or whatever you call it (sub-bios???)
I dream of the instant on computer.

 

[randomizer]

My X58 board spends 6-7 seconds booting before it even shows the POST screen.

 

[El_Capitan]

[citation][nom]r0x0r[/nom]If you don't mind playing it as a text only game and mailing your inputs to Crytek, then yeah no prob..."Hey I got mail from Crytek!""Whassit say?""You were pwned by Koreans. Restart?"[/citation]
Sounds fun.

"Those Koreans are too good. We need to upgrade our typewriters."
"It's no good. Have you seen how fast they type?"
"Do you think it's because the Korean typewriters are more efficient than our QWERTY keyboards?"
"I don't know. We should learn Korean and find out."
"괜찮아!"

 

[neiroatopelcc]

I'd like that bios in place of the standard one on the P6T Deluxe! That systems spends MORE time posting than it does loading the vista from the cheetah.

 

[WyomingKnott]

[citation][nom]major7up[/nom]Now if we could just work some magic on the OS to make it boot in 1 sec that would be a dream come true![/citation]
DOS boots pretty fast when I'm going to make image backups. Use DOS. ;-)

 

[eyemaster]

[citation][nom]El_Capitan[/nom]I hope they mark up the price an extra $100 for this special feature. F2, F2, F2.... damn it, missed it again! Reboot... F2, F2, F2... #@$![/citation]

Funny, yes, but why don't you just press the F2 and keep it pressed? Or the Del, F10, F8, F12 key? (depending on your computer)

 

[alexie]

There was a bios in the past when i use my 386. it's also can boot about 1 second I think booting in 1 sec is not a big deal. Let's wait and see.

 

[neiroatopelcc]

[citation][nom]alexie[/nom]There was a bios in the past when i use my 386. it's also can boot about 1 second I think booting in 1 sec is not a big deal. Let's wait and see.[/citation]
Must've been a top notch system you had then! My video cards bios alone took 2-3 secs loading back then. Forgot what it was called ... tseng something I think.

 

[wildwell]

It's been said before: very impressive.

 

[neiroatopelcc]

It'd actually be nice to have some sort of instant on in reallife! My parents say their new pc (i7-920 with cheetah drive) is slow, cause it actually takes more time booting than the old p4 2.4 it replaces. This is because of all the bios stuff causing windows to not load for the first 25 seconds or so.