In what order to boot?

Grazie wrote on 5/18/2006, 8:26 PM
Do you have a referred way to booting up? During a Vegas session does this result in a any less or more successful working session?

I've played with:

1/- Switch on Deck then turn on PC - I use my deck as a means of not only capturing, but it is part of my AV<>DV tango! Don't ask!

2/- Switch on PC THEN Deck THEN Vegas

3/- Switch on PC > Deck > Vegas > External Drives

4/- Switch on PC > Vegas > External Drives > Deck

5/- Switch on Drives + Deck > PC > Vegas

I'm serious! Does any of these permutations make any difference? Will one have greater success of stability than another? Do the various "requests", made by each and every device, on the CPU, in a specific order create better OR less stability?

Apart from those fortunate business-combos that leave ALL their stuff on ALL the time, do you here have "other" preferred start-up schemes, which in turn have provided tried and tested, successfully stable working environments, than others?

Grazie


Comments

JackW wrote on 5/18/2006, 10:17 PM
Interesting question Grazie. I have two internal hard drives and three externals, connected to the computer via a firewire hub. My DV deck is also connected through the hub. I find that I get virtually no " Error writing to hard drive" failures if I boot the PC first, then turn on each hard drive and wait for it to be recognized the the PC. Finally comes the deck. Sometimes while working I'll add the camera to the hub, without any problems.

I don't know whether there is a "correct " sequence, or even a better one than I have, but what I do seems to work well for me.

When shutting down, I turn off the computer first, then power down each hard drive and the deck.

Hope all is well with you over there,

Jack
apit34356 wrote on 5/18/2006, 10:52 PM
Grazie, I have found that it is best to;
1. start PC, ensure system is functioning,
2. power up external firewire drives, 1st chained drive...next drive.... then last chained drive.
3. USB external drives, in a fixed order,
4. if you have external SATA drives, usually these should be started with the PC,

IF your system is bullet-proof, then powering up the externals before the PC works well. But if things are or sometimes goes "buggy", then the above approach is the best.
Serena wrote on 5/18/2006, 11:11 PM
Generally I leave all external drives powered up all the time but I have found it better to power up the main PC before the networked PCs (this gets the network up without problems).
Grazie wrote on 5/19/2006, 1:10 AM
Good sound advice. Thank you - G
ushere wrote on 5/19/2006, 3:46 AM
peripherals > pc (take the money) pc > peripherals.

i know xp is clever, and that my hardware is bullet proof (ha!), but there's no harm in letting xp know what's connected rather than having xp find it (or perhaps not) after it's booted.

always good to give the system a shock occassionally - just to get the adreniline going....

leslie
Tech Diver wrote on 5/19/2006, 6:36 AM
Remember that if you are also running a network, that should be brought up before all else.
Grazie wrote on 5/19/2006, 6:58 AM
( in my best Joe Pesci voice from "Lethal Weapon 3" . .might have been 4? )


Ok, ok, ok . .


So - no Network here .. we have 2 Camps of thought:

1/- DO Switch on perifs PRIOR to PC boot

2/- DON'T Switch on perifs PRIOR to PC boot

.. again no network here ..

Grazie
Chienworks wrote on 5/19/2006, 7:14 AM
These days it probably doesn't matter much what order you do things in, other than that unless you've hardcoded drive letters to your removable drives then Windows will assign the letters in the order it sees them, and this order may seem somewhat random to the user.

For me (no removable drives here other than my digital camera) with my network and firewire devices, it seems that if i boot windows first and other things after, Windows finds them in 3 to 5 seconds, the average being closer to 3. If i boot everything else first and then Windows, Windows finds them in 3 to 5 seconds, with the average being closer to 5. I haven't really done an accurate study since booting Windows usually calls for a trip to the fridge for a can of refreshing beverage, and that usually takes 30 to 50 seconds so all that 3 to 5 second stuff is done way before i get back anyway.

Ain't computers great? :)