My HP 8570w Elitebook boots to full status in less than 30 seconds. My z800 seems to take forever to boot by comparison. It seems to spend an awful lot of time loading the BIOS and doing whatever its doing in the background before it begins to launch the actual operating system, in spite of the fact that it has two six-core processors, 48GB of RAM and a 10,000 rpm HDD.
For all practical purposes, the 8570w immediately begins loading Windows 7 Pro (64-bit).
Is there anyway to optimize (i.e., speed up) the boot process in the Z800? We bought these workstations with the expectation that they would be faster than lightning, but so far we're not very impressed with its performance compared to our older xw9400s, even after it boots.
Any advice would be appreciated.