ASRock has a ploy to sell more of its motherboards: Instant Boot. The BIOS update for select MoBos promises to boot XP or Vista systems 10 times faster than standard PCs -- in other words, about 3 to 4 seconds from a full shutdown. ASRock achieves this minor of miracles through manipulation of the Advanced Configuration and Power Interface that Microsoft manipulates for its sleep and hibernate modes. At the risk of oversimplification, ASRock appears to add the processing baggage to the backend of the shutdown process, essentially rebooting the OS and then dropping it into a suspended state ready to instantly pop on the next time you hit the power button. Pretty smart actually. Here's the catch: the system you're using
must be limited to a single user account without any password protection -- a definite no-no for corporate environments. See what happens when Hugo and George steal Dad's camcorder after the break.
[Thanks, Daniel]
posted November 14th 2008 6:38AM
Instant boot fast mode IS sleep (S3 state), and Instant boot regular mode IS hibernation. The ASRock website says so: http://www.asrock.com/feature/InstantBoot/index.asp
The article above already states (I would consider rather accurately): ASRock appears to add the processing baggage to the backend of the shutdown process, essentially rebooting the OS and then dropping it into a suspended state ready to instantly pop on the next time you hit the power button.
My next motherboard purchase is going to be ASRock. This commercial sold me. I love the genuineness these guys put into into their work.
God, way to make a stereotypical old school Asian movie. They should re-edit it so that the audio should lag a little bit. =D
HMM… Sleep mode??? no good