Hard Light Productions Forums

Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: MicroPsycho on October 04, 2005, 03:16:23 pm

Title: Hardware configuration time.
Post by: MicroPsycho on October 04, 2005, 03:16:23 pm

I just built a computer and it's set up and what not, I've set the BIOS to read from CD-Rom first. I put in the Windows XP in the Drive and it boots from the disc, as it should. Then it "inspects the computer hardware configuration...". now, how long should that take, generally speaking?

Title: Hardware configuration time.
Post by: Darkage on October 04, 2005, 03:20:22 pm

on my computer it doesn't take longer then 15 seconds. It shouldn't take minutes maby a max of 30secs or so.

Title: Re: Hardware configuration time.
Post by: IceFire on October 04, 2005, 04:13:09 pm

Quote

Originally posted by MicroPsycho
I just built a computer and it's set up and what not, I've set the BIOS to read from CD-Rom first. I put in the Windows XP in the Drive and it boots from the disc, as it should. Then it "inspects the computer hardware configuration...". now, how long should that take, generally speaking?

Less than a minute on every piece of hardware I've ever run Windows XP setup on.  That ranges from a Pentium III 400 to a AMD 2700+.

Title: Hardware configuration time.
Post by: MicroPsycho on October 04, 2005, 06:15:41 pm

this computer was...just stoping at that point, but all's good now.