Tweak3D tutorial over verlaging boot-time

De goede mensen van Tweak3D hebben een artikel geschreven over het verminderen van de opstarttijd van je computer. In het kort wordt gekeken hoe je via wat BIOS tweaking en het veranderen van de opstartbestanden weer wat minder nuttige tijd verspeelt aan het booten van je (Windows 9x/ME) PC. Tips die de ervaren tweaker waarschijnlijk al lang kent, maar met een hoog 'oja!'-gehalte. Hier het gedeelte over de BIOS:

There are a few settings within the BIOS that you can change/set that will speed up boot time. One of the most important ones is QuickPOST (might also be called QuickBoot or something along those lines). You will want to enable this setting because it will tell the computer to skip over some of the system tests that it usually does before letting the computer load the OS. Another thing that I would consider setting would be the settings for all of the hard drives in the system. You can do this by running the IDE Auto-Detection program and letting it detect your hard drive(s). Once it has done that, go back to the main BIOS screen and make sure all of the other channels are set to none. Don't worry if you have a CD-ROM drive connected to one of those 'none' channels, the computer detects CD-ROM drives differently than it does hard disks.

The next thing to go through and check would be the boot sequence and set it to boot the C drive (hard disk) first. Now, this means you won't be able to boot using a floppy unless you entirely disable the hard drive, or you go back to this setting and change it later - but it is worth the extra effort on those rare occasions that you need to boot using a floppy disk, because this will speed up your boot time by 3 to 4 seconds in many cases. After that is done, go and make sure that floppy boot seek is disabled - the BIOS will detect the location of the floppy drives anyway, it doesn't need to independently test each one during the power on self test.