Fast Booting Systems With Intel® Rapid Bios Boot; Intel Rapid Bios Boot - Intel S845WD11U Product Manual

Fast Booting Systems with Intel® Rapid BIOS Boot
These factors affect system boot speed:
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Selecting and configuring peripherals properly
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Using an optimized BIOS, such as the Intel Rapid BIOS

Intel Rapid BIOS Boot

Using the following BIOS Setup program settings reduces the POST execution time. In the Boot Menu:
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Set the hard disk drive as the first boot device. As a result, the POST does not first seek a
diskette drive, which saves about one second from the POST execution time.
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Disable Quiet Boot, which eliminates display of the logo splash screen. This could save several
seconds of painting complex graphic images and changing video modes.
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Enabled Intel Rapid BIOS Boot. This feature bypasses memory count and the search for a
diskette drive.
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NOTE
It is possible to optimize the boot process to the point where the system boots
so quickly that the Intel logo screen (or a custom logo splash screen) will not
be seen. Monitors and hard disk drives with minimum initialization times can
also contribute to a boot time that might be so fast that necessary logo
screens and POST messages cannot be seen.
This boot time may be so fast that some drives might be not be initialized at
all. If this condition should occur, it is possible to introduce a programmable
delay ranging from three to 30 seconds (using the Hard Disk Pre-Delay
feature of the Advanced Menu in the IDE Configuration Submenu of the
BIOS Setup program).
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