Phoenix BIOS Boots in 1 Second, Loads Win 7
Source: Tom's Hardware US – Keywords: phoenix, technologies, windows, 7, bios Category : Software
Not quite instant-on, but very-quickly-on.
One difference between many consumer electronics and the PC is the time it takes from hitting the power button until it's fully functional.
PCs have had to contend with far more complexities in its system, as well as slower storage media such as hard disk drives. While much of that we have to live with, the advent of faster storage solutions such as SSDs make the wait from power-to-desktop shorter.
Now Phoenix has created a new BIOS that will boot (or POST) a PC in just one second. Such a quick boot process means that it can shave a significant portion of the total load time of a cold system, with the rest of the wait being the loading of the operating system.
Phoenix demonstrated its technology on a Lenovo T400s equipped with an SSD. Just one second after the system was powered on, the drive access light began to flicker and a clean Windows 7 was loaded to the desktop in about 10 seconds.
Check out a video of the technology in action at LaptopMag.
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sounds like it boots like linux
Hmmm 10 seconds...
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Does anyone remember FastBoot on an Amiga??? The technology is here for ages and yet - it doesn't always work... Normal Boot Time of an Amiga 4000/060/50MHz with IDE hdd - was about 10-20 seconds (depending on the software you loaded at boot time)... with FastBoot it was like 2-3s
As for the Phoenix BIOS - I bet it does not do it the first time it boots - so it "detects" all the crap as usual, saves it and simply does not do it again on every boot - job done... Then again... 10s for "7" - is not bad... But, it's SSD so... no surprise really.
I assume there's a really good reason (or several good reasons) why the OS can't be on a chip rather than having to be loaded off of the HDD each time? Just remembering the good old days of ROM chips
Weeellll... .with an SSD the OS is effectively 'on chip'. However, Its only recently that the price of the extended read/write chips have come to a price that consumers can 'afford'. The old ROM's were at worst literally Read Only Memory, ie you couldn't have saved any changes to your OS once loaded, so everytime you booted it would have been a fresh operating system. Whilst not all bad a lot of people would have struggled.
Put this together with Intels forthcoming Braidwood tech and it will be almost instant on....cool.
I have 2x SSD Intel-E 64GB @ Raid0 Boot less than 10 seconds (7-8 Seconds).