cold boot

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In the latest Xbox Insider test builds of the Xbox dashboard, the cold boot startup time has been reduced by around 5 seconds.

From The Verge • Jul. 25, 2022

The biggest single performance slip I recorded was on the iPhone 5, where the cold boot up took three seconds longer on iOS 9 than it did on iOS 8.

From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 16, 2015

This process—starting a computer from its powered-off state—is known as a "cold boot."

From Slate • Aug. 11, 2011

On an attempt to launch a DOS box, a networked Windows system not uncommonly blanks the screen and locks up the PC so hard that it requires a cold boot to recover.

From The Jargon File, Version 4.2.2, 20 Aug 2000 by Steele, Guy L.