Every time you press the power button, your PC makes

you wait unnecessarily. To get your hardware to run faster, I will help you by removing unnecessary

excess settings from the boot process. First, turn on the PC and, while it is booting up, press the

key indicated on screen that shows the Main Menu for the BIOS settings; it's normally the

<Delete> key, but your system may specify a different key.

When you enter the BIOS main

menu, the first trick to efficiently boot up your system is through bypassing the system memory

check. The system memory check is the part of the Power-On-Self-Test routine that counts the RAM in

your PC. In older days, this process is done to ensure RAM are in working order, before they boot

into their Operating system. But it is rather unnecessary. So, to remove it, go to the Boot area and

look for a setting called Set Quick POST or similar name. Set it to Enabled.

Next, to prevent

your PC from looking for a floppy drive, remove the floppy drive from the top of your boot drive

list. This avoids the floppy drive to start up and spin, which reduces the boot time needed to start

up. In the Boot section, look for an area named Set Boot Device Order or another similar name. Use

the keyboard arrow keys to select the IDE Hard Drive (Normally, IDE0 is a default setup on most

motherboards, that signifies the primary master hard drive) entry and move it to the top of the list

by pressing <Shift>-+. If you want to boot from a floppy later, you can always change the boot

of the floppy drive in the main menu of the BIOS.

Finally, exit and save your settings (many

systems will tell you to use the <F10> key for this); the boot process will resume. If you

encounter any problems, simply re-enter your PC Setup program and you can reload the BIOS settings

default and you can do it from scratch again, by repeating the methods.

In summary, your

computer starts up faster, minus all the unnecessary delays to start up the PC. The older settings

were merely boot up standards for older computers, which has been inherited to the current days. Some

of those settings would be deemed obsolete these days, as they do not rely on some of the settings to

fully run the PC