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My system is up and running great, but I have a few questions.
1. How do I get my system to boot up fast? Harddrive is in the first position. It takes 70 seconds for me to get to welcome screen and 85 seconds for complete boot. Is this normal, slow or what? Should I be concerned? Remember that I have a RAID 0 array. When I loaded the optimized defaults, my system would not boot, because it could not find the hard drive. I needed to go back into the Bios Setup and set up the raid again. All of my data was still there, but the boot up seems to take a while checking all of the drives and other things. How do I short circuit this?
2. What programs do I use now to check optimization of my computer? To check the temperatures, and anything else I would want to check.
3. My case has 4 fans, plus the PSU fan. I connected the two front fans and the back fan directly to the power source. Of course, I have the Tuniq Tower also. They are not connected to the motherboard. I don't think I can connect them to the motherboard. Is it normal to have fans that you can't monitor? What fans are usually monitored?
4. What is the best way to ghost or backup my system when it is all set up. I have 2 500 GB external drives that I could backup to, but I don't know if Vista has a way of setting that up or if I need to buy a new program.
5. I will update this post as questions are answered.
Thanks in advance to all on this board for all of your help. I still can't believe that I built a computer.
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1. How do I get my system to boot up fast? Harddrive is in the first position. It takes 70 seconds for me to get to welcome screen and 85 seconds for complete boot. Is this normal, slow or what? Should I be concerned? Remember that I have a RAID 0 array. When I loaded the optimized defaults, my system would not boot, because it could not find the hard drive. I needed to go back into the Bios Setup and set up the raid again. All of my data was still there, but the boot up seems to take a while checking all of the drives and other things. How do I short circuit this?
2. What programs do I use now to check optimization of my computer? To check the temperatures, and anything else I would want to check.
3. My case has 4 fans, plus the PSU fan. I connected the two front fans and the back fan directly to the power source. Of course, I have the Tuniq Tower also. They are not connected to the motherboard. I don't think I can connect them to the motherboard. Is it normal to have fans that you can't monitor? What fans are usually monitored?
4. What is the best way to ghost or backup my system when it is all set up. I have 2 500 GB external drives that I could backup to, but I don't know if Vista has a way of setting that up or if I need to buy a new program.
5. I will update this post as questions are answered.
Thanks in advance to all on this board for all of your help. I still can't believe that I built a computer.
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