http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/14/asrocks-instant-boot-from-0-to-vista-in-4-seconds/ Engadget Comments for ASRock's Instant Boot: 0 to Vista in 4 seconds http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2009 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/14/asrocks-instant-boot-from-0-to-vista-in-4-seconds/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/14/asrocks-instant-boot-from-0-to-vista-in-4-seconds/Nov 14th 2008 6:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/14/asrocks-instant-boot-from-0-to-vista-in-4-seconds/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/14/asrocks-instant-boot-from-0-to-vista-in-4-seconds/Nov 14th 2008 9:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/14/asrocks-instant-boot-from-0-to-vista-in-4-seconds/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/14/asrocks-instant-boot-from-0-to-vista-in-4-seconds/Nov 14th 2008 10:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/14/asrocks-instant-boot-from-0-to-vista-in-4-seconds/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/14/asrocks-instant-boot-from-0-to-vista-in-4-seconds/Nov 14th 2008 11:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/14/asrocks-instant-boot-from-0-to-vista-in-4-seconds/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/14/asrocks-instant-boot-from-0-to-vista-in-4-seconds/Nov 14th 2008 6:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/14/asrocks-instant-boot-from-0-to-vista-in-4-seconds/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/14/asrocks-instant-boot-from-0-to-vista-in-4-seconds/Nov 14th 2008 10:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/14/asrocks-instant-boot-from-0-to-vista-in-4-seconds/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/14/asrocks-instant-boot-from-0-to-vista-in-4-seconds/Nov 14th 2008 12:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/14/asrocks-instant-boot-from-0-to-vista-in-4-seconds/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/14/asrocks-instant-boot-from-0-to-vista-in-4-seconds/Nov 14th 2008 1:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/14/asrocks-instant-boot-from-0-to-vista-in-4-seconds/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/14/asrocks-instant-boot-from-0-to-vista-in-4-seconds/]]>Nov 14th 2008 2:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/14/asrocks-instant-boot-from-0-to-vista-in-4-seconds/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/14/asrocks-instant-boot-from-0-to-vista-in-4-seconds/
But password comes first, sorry.]]>Nov 14th 2008 6:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/14/asrocks-instant-boot-from-0-to-vista-in-4-seconds/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/14/asrocks-instant-boot-from-0-to-vista-in-4-seconds/Nov 14th 2008 8:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/14/asrocks-instant-boot-from-0-to-vista-in-4-seconds/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/14/asrocks-instant-boot-from-0-to-vista-in-4-seconds/
Here's an article by a couple of guys who managed to get Linux to boot in 5 seconds:

http://lwn.net/Articles/299483/]]>Nov 14th 2008 7:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/14/asrocks-instant-boot-from-0-to-vista-in-4-seconds/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/14/asrocks-instant-boot-from-0-to-vista-in-4-seconds/Nov 14th 2008 8:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/14/asrocks-instant-boot-from-0-to-vista-in-4-seconds/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/14/asrocks-instant-boot-from-0-to-vista-in-4-seconds/Nov 14th 2008 6:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/14/asrocks-instant-boot-from-0-to-vista-in-4-seconds/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/14/asrocks-instant-boot-from-0-to-vista-in-4-seconds/Nov 14th 2008 6:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/14/asrocks-instant-boot-from-0-to-vista-in-4-seconds/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/14/asrocks-instant-boot-from-0-to-vista-in-4-seconds/Nov 14th 2008 7:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/14/asrocks-instant-boot-from-0-to-vista-in-4-seconds/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/14/asrocks-instant-boot-from-0-to-vista-in-4-seconds/Nov 14th 2008 6:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/14/asrocks-instant-boot-from-0-to-vista-in-4-seconds/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/14/asrocks-instant-boot-from-0-to-vista-in-4-seconds/Nov 14th 2008 6:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/14/asrocks-instant-boot-from-0-to-vista-in-4-seconds/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/14/asrocks-instant-boot-from-0-to-vista-in-4-seconds/Nov 14th 2008 6:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/14/asrocks-instant-boot-from-0-to-vista-in-4-seconds/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/14/asrocks-instant-boot-from-0-to-vista-in-4-seconds/Nov 14th 2008 1:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/14/asrocks-instant-boot-from-0-to-vista-in-4-seconds/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/14/asrocks-instant-boot-from-0-to-vista-in-4-seconds/
Deep Sleep on the Mac also does not require the user to re-authenticate when woken by default, although I think that can be enabled. However, I am quite sure that the authentication available will be nothing much more than a password protected screensaver, so improvements there for security is definitely required.]]>Nov 14th 2008 7:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/14/asrocks-instant-boot-from-0-to-vista-in-4-seconds/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/14/asrocks-instant-boot-from-0-to-vista-in-4-seconds/
This offers a fresh boot of windows...i'm assuming it increases shutdown time in order to decrease boot up time.]]>Nov 14th 2008 9:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/14/asrocks-instant-boot-from-0-to-vista-in-4-seconds/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/14/asrocks-instant-boot-from-0-to-vista-in-4-seconds/
It does not surprise me that Vista has an equivalent to Deep Sleep, and I'm not even certain that is the correct name of it for the Mac (I downloaded a widget for Dashboard that enables the Deep Sleep option to be used otherwise simply closing the lid sends the laptop into a normal sleep).

The thing here is that I don't see why you would want a clean boot of the OS. If you need to reboot your PC then you have to close all your documents and applications, and then relaunch them when the boot up has completed. This is an unnecessary hassle. Unless an OS update appears that requires a reboot then my computer will go for months without being rebooted. A computer that can be put into a sleep state whereby it saves its memory into a non-volatile medium and draws no power whilst being able to restore state in a couple of seconds sounds pretty whizzy to me. If it wants to restart the OS then I'm much less interested.]]>Nov 14th 2008 10:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/14/asrocks-instant-boot-from-0-to-vista-in-4-seconds/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/14/asrocks-instant-boot-from-0-to-vista-in-4-seconds/Nov 14th 2008 2:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/14/asrocks-instant-boot-from-0-to-vista-in-4-seconds/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/14/asrocks-instant-boot-from-0-to-vista-in-4-seconds/
Without wanting to get into an OS debate, is that still not fixed even in Vista? On a modern computer it should not be necessary to have to reboot after x-period of time. Rather, you should only need to restart if you are installing system files.]]>Nov 15th 2008 6:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/14/asrocks-instant-boot-from-0-to-vista-in-4-seconds/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/14/asrocks-instant-boot-from-0-to-vista-in-4-seconds/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaiMi66DK14]]>Nov 14th 2008 7:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/14/asrocks-instant-boot-from-0-to-vista-in-4-seconds/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/14/asrocks-instant-boot-from-0-to-vista-in-4-seconds/Nov 14th 2008 10:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/14/asrocks-instant-boot-from-0-to-vista-in-4-seconds/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/14/asrocks-instant-boot-from-0-to-vista-in-4-seconds/
ITs sort of FALSE advertising. Notice how there is no bios boot up or windows boot up screens?

ITs just a faster wakeup from sleep mode thats all.]]>Nov 14th 2008 7:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/14/asrocks-instant-boot-from-0-to-vista-in-4-seconds/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/14/asrocks-instant-boot-from-0-to-vista-in-4-seconds/Nov 14th 2008 7:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/14/asrocks-instant-boot-from-0-to-vista-in-4-seconds/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/14/asrocks-instant-boot-from-0-to-vista-in-4-seconds/
With luck, this development will make the boot cycle a thing of the past (well, you know what I mean).]]>Nov 14th 2008 7:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/14/asrocks-instant-boot-from-0-to-vista-in-4-seconds/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/14/asrocks-instant-boot-from-0-to-vista-in-4-seconds/
Instant Boot does NOT wake up faster than sleep mode, for the record. The advantage is that you get to work with a clean boot of Vista.]]>Nov 14th 2008 8:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/14/asrocks-instant-boot-from-0-to-vista-in-4-seconds/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/14/asrocks-instant-boot-from-0-to-vista-in-4-seconds/Nov 14th 2008 7:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/14/asrocks-instant-boot-from-0-to-vista-in-4-seconds/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/14/asrocks-instant-boot-from-0-to-vista-in-4-seconds/
Sleep or Standby mode activates your RAM only so you save power, but since RAM is volatile, a loss of power will cause the RAM to lose its contents.

POST time is actually pretty short at around 2-5 seconds in my experience; It's the windows startup that takes the majority of boot time.

According to broli (user below), Regular mode stores boot information on Flash memory, which should be much faster than any traditional harddrive. Logically, this will make Instant Boot faster than waking up from hibernation.

P.S. Do not change components when your system is hibernated, especially RAM; this may cause errors and BSoD.]]>Nov 14th 2008 8:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/14/asrocks-instant-boot-from-0-to-vista-in-4-seconds/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/14/asrocks-instant-boot-from-0-to-vista-in-4-seconds/
This doesn't advance the discussion much (sorry about that) but since you were talking about Sleep and Hibernate I thought I'd throw in another option. Carry on...]]>Nov 14th 2008 10:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/14/asrocks-instant-boot-from-0-to-vista-in-4-seconds/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/14/asrocks-instant-boot-from-0-to-vista-in-4-seconds/http://www.asrock.com/feature/InstantBoot/index.asp

So booting in 4 seconds AND completely plugging off the computer apparently does not work.]]>Nov 14th 2008 11:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/14/asrocks-instant-boot-from-0-to-vista-in-4-seconds/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/14/asrocks-instant-boot-from-0-to-vista-in-4-seconds/http://www.asrock.com/feature/InstantBoot/index.asp

So booting in 4 seconds AND completely plugging off the computer apparently does not work.

From what it does, “regular mode” seems to be comparable to HORM (Hibernate once resume many) on Windows XPe.

(hope I get the reply right this time)]]>Nov 14th 2008 11:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/14/asrocks-instant-boot-from-0-to-vista-in-4-seconds/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/14/asrocks-instant-boot-from-0-to-vista-in-4-seconds/
Vista has the same funtionality, it's named Hybrid Sleep.]]>Nov 14th 2008 1:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/14/asrocks-instant-boot-from-0-to-vista-in-4-seconds/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/14/asrocks-instant-boot-from-0-to-vista-in-4-seconds/
Because the MBP is writing upwards of of 4GB to disk, it takes an extra 30-60 seconds for your laptop to go to "sleep."

So you have to either plan ahead, and give your laptop time to go to sleep before you move it; wait for it to finish; or go to regular sleep, which just goes into low-power operation.

]]>Nov 14th 2008 3:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/14/asrocks-instant-boot-from-0-to-vista-in-4-seconds/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/14/asrocks-instant-boot-from-0-to-vista-in-4-seconds/
Well, it's been a couple of years now but just closing the lid and moving the laptop hasn't resulted in problems yet, although I expect that either dropping it or waving it around wouldn't be wise.

@Jagster

Cheers for the confirmation.]]>Nov 15th 2008 7:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/14/asrocks-instant-boot-from-0-to-vista-in-4-seconds/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/14/asrocks-instant-boot-from-0-to-vista-in-4-seconds/
Well twice now (all within the past 2 months actually) I've had my Macbook crash on sleep... i heard somewhere that it's due to a clash between safe sleep and the sudden motion sensor... as in.. if the SMS gets activated while the system is performing a safe sleep, it crashes.. the worst thing is, the computer never gets to sleep, so u have a system that is on, lid closed, and most probably in a insulated laptop sleeve/pocket, causing potential damage due to overheating... yea.

I'd assume this problem could be corrected via a firmware update, or even just software update.. but it's still yet to come as far as i know...]]>Nov 25th 2008 11:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/14/asrocks-instant-boot-from-0-to-vista-in-4-seconds/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/14/asrocks-instant-boot-from-0-to-vista-in-4-seconds/Nov 14th 2008 7:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/14/asrocks-instant-boot-from-0-to-vista-in-4-seconds/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/14/asrocks-instant-boot-from-0-to-vista-in-4-seconds/Nov 14th 2008 7:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/14/asrocks-instant-boot-from-0-to-vista-in-4-seconds/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/14/asrocks-instant-boot-from-0-to-vista-in-4-seconds/
Oh, and of course the most adorably nerdy presentation ever. Thumbs up!
]]>Nov 14th 2008 7:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/14/asrocks-instant-boot-from-0-to-vista-in-4-seconds/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/14/asrocks-instant-boot-from-0-to-vista-in-4-seconds/
Nice, but, yah.

We'll be there someday.]]>Nov 14th 2008 7:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/14/asrocks-instant-boot-from-0-to-vista-in-4-seconds/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/14/asrocks-instant-boot-from-0-to-vista-in-4-seconds/Nov 14th 2008 7:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/14/asrocks-instant-boot-from-0-to-vista-in-4-seconds/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/14/asrocks-instant-boot-from-0-to-vista-in-4-seconds/Regular mode: Stores RAM content in flash memory on mobo.]]>Nov 14th 2008 7:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/14/asrocks-instant-boot-from-0-to-vista-in-4-seconds/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/14/asrocks-instant-boot-from-0-to-vista-in-4-seconds/
*pause*

"YEAH!!!!"

xD]]>Nov 14th 2008 8:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/14/asrocks-instant-boot-from-0-to-vista-in-4-seconds/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/14/asrocks-instant-boot-from-0-to-vista-in-4-seconds/Nov 14th 2008 8:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/14/asrocks-instant-boot-from-0-to-vista-in-4-seconds/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/14/asrocks-instant-boot-from-0-to-vista-in-4-seconds/Nov 14th 2008 8:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/14/asrocks-instant-boot-from-0-to-vista-in-4-seconds/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/14/asrocks-instant-boot-from-0-to-vista-in-4-seconds/Nov 14th 2008 8:05AM