What are the typical cold boot times for windows 10?

[Malcky]

Just curious as to what the normal/typical boot times should be from a cold power on to windows desk top?

For me in my new set up had the following times:

Push power button
10 seconds till speaker on mobo beeps (I bought the speaker for mobo)
13 seconds till 1st Asus logo splashed up.....just for a split second.
16 seconds till 2nd Asus logo and giving F2/Del options
18 seconds till F2/Del options disappear
19 seconds Asus logo loading windows
20 seconds shows the wheel spinning as windows loads
27 seconds shows the logon name of user
28 seconds shows the windows desktop

Are these timings about normal?

My set up is:

Asus Z170i pro gaming mini itx mobo
i5-6500 CPU
16gb G.Skill 3200mhz DDR4 (2x8gb)
Samsung SM951 512gb M.2 NVMe storage

Thanks

 

[Silverbear]

Looks normal to me, boot time is always going to be affected by how many devices (HDDs, USB, etc.) you have plugged in and how many programs run at start up.

Boot times have come a long way since Windows 98 where you could make a sandwich and watch an episode of Simpsons before the computer fully booted. (Exaggeration of course)

 

[Malcky]

The only other items connected to the computer is a USB wired keyboard and a USB wireless mouse.....I have nothing connected to any of the Sata ports, should I disable them in the bios or is there no need to do that?

Just there seems to be loads of youtube videos and comments on forums about boot up times being less than 10 seconds, yet my speaker takes 10 seconds to give its initial beep......no idea what the computer is actually doing in those first 10 seconds?

 

[Silverbear]

Different Motherboards have various POST times (What you describe as the first 10 seconds) and initialize hardware differently. My MSI X99S Gaming 7 computer takes around 5 seconds before anything shows up on the monitor. 30 seconds from pushing the power button and getting to the Windows Desktop is pretty fast, you don't have to disable anything and I wouldn't really recommend it.

People getting those type of boot times probably have memory testing and other features disabled, you have nothing to worry about.

 

[smorizio]

there a few things with new pc that effect boot time. some you can change some you cant.
1. most new pc have to bios now the older bios and newer efi bios. most mb vendor now let you boot from one or the other or both. you can go under boot change the order from both to efi. if all of your devices are efi tested you can remove the time for the mb to boot from both. make sure the ram set to xmp. you add post time if the mb has to set the ram to cpu speed at every post. under boot turn on fast boot. also turn off mb splash screen logo.
in boot there also a wait on error time. (30 sec by default). if you set this to 0 you need to use boot to cmos program to reboot into the bios. from inside of windows. in msconfig there is error time out wait time and gui boot. you can turn off gui boot. whe nyou do this you wont see the windows loading screen at cold post.

 

[Malcky]

Ok, thanks for the reply folks...glad everything looks ok.