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I've edited the original post.

So far only a Mac user has confirmed that insta-boots work this way. :lol: Would someone with a Windows computer chime in to confirm/deny whether this works on more than one motherboard?

I'll give it a go now because i have nothing better to do.

Gimme 5mins, i've got a Neo4 mobo btw.

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OK, I'm impressed. Works a charm.

I changed in my BIOS to the [S3(STR)] option for the "ACPI Suspend Type" like you said.

Then in Windows i changed the function of my power button to "standby" instead of what it was currently on "Power Off". Now Windows says "Preparing for Standby" or whatever on the logoff screen for about 3 seconds, and the PC shuts down. Hit the power button and it's on before my monitor's even warmed up.

Thumbs up from me!

Edit: I can't understand why this isn't default?! :shock:

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This kind of stuff isn't on by default because it would make stupid people's heads explode.

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I brought this up in another forum, trying to get a few people that shut their PCs down at night to try it out. Mine stays running 24/7 for various reasons, so it doesn't do me much good :)

With the suspend thing in bios are you talking about 4-8 second boots from a cold boot (windows shut down) or a warm boot (stand by / hibernate

Returning from Stand-by, but the setting makes it so your computer shuts all the way off except for electricity sustaining your ram. Its very useful for me and it hardly uses your HDD, and all your programs are as you left them of course.

Why they don't have a cold boot instant-boot i don't know and its frustrating for me to think about sometimes, i can imagine 3 separate ways to do it cheaply with hardware built into the system. Like with a 150Mb (give or take) re-writable ROM chip (like your bios) holding your basic initial Windows load transferred to ram at start-up. Then have windows maintain an on going dynamic start up page file so thats ready to go too. Changes to your start-up cache could be made at any time...

This could be added with a module on a video/sound/add-on card as well.

Why!?!?!

Why do they have to integrate programs into XP! Why cant they just have autonomous, perpetual single folder program installations!!!

...but i digress....

I tried this the other day and was very impressed. I don't have much cause to do this as I don't mind waiting about, I only really turn the PC on once a day and then I may boot into Linux instead.

One thing to note is that when you bring it out of stand-by anything that is set in the bios (more specifically fan control) doesn't kick in. I havent really looked into it but all my fans are running at 100% from stand-by.

Great little tip though and as said above games stay loaded! :lol:

One member on another forum stated that his overclocking settings were not retained when using standyby as well. What model of motherboard are you using? Anyone elses BIOS not retaining its settings when using the standy function? Thats 2 cases so far.