I've decided against going to 4GB of (ddr1) ram as it's too expensive, rather just wait till I have enough money to get a new mobo/cpu DDR3.
I rarely game as well, I use my pc as a media hub/usenet bs.
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I rarely game as well, I use my pc as a media hub/usenet bs.
Has anyone tried enabling AHCI? http://www.ithinkdiff.com/how-to-enable-ahci-in-windows-7-rc-after-installation/
Maybe I should've installed Win7 in native sata mode to begin with. You can do that with Win7 right? I assume since it had a driver for my onboard network chip it would also have a driver for my sata chip.
Edit: Just read on Wiki that Win7 does support ahci out of the box.
Maybe I should've installed Win7 in native sata mode to begin with. You can do that with Win7 right? I assume since it had a driver for my onboard network chip it would also have a driver for my sata chip.
Edit: Just read on Wiki that Win7 does support ahci out of the box.
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I've installed two Win 7 boxes with AHCI enabled now. Its been something I've been looking to do as ACHI on the SB6xx was a little tricky with Vista. With the two Win 7 desktop installs I've done I just turned on AHCI in the BIOS prior to the install and the install just recognises it fine - this is with both an SB600 and SB750 southbridge.
May be a placebo effect, but I have a 1TB WD Green HD as my second drive, which aren't exactly the fastest drives, and that one does feel a little more responsive than I remember it under SATA mode.
May be a placebo effect, but I have a 1TB WD Green HD as my second drive, which aren't exactly the fastest drives, and that one does feel a little more responsive than I remember it under SATA mode.
I felt the same thing when I enabled it for the first time.
Bouncing Zabaglione Bros.
Legend
You are better off doing it at install time, especially as Win7 does contain a lot of the necessary drivers depending on your chipset.
It's quite fiddly to change from IDE to AHCI once you have installed. The recommended way is to do a fresh install, but there are ways of tricking things with registry hacks or using a second controller (many boards have two controllers nowadays).
I think there is some improvements, especially with multitasking and lots of disk access or if you're running some from of firmware/software RAID. It doesn't show much on the benchmarks, but it does seem to make lots of activity happen more smoothly.
Broken Hope
Regular
It's not tricking or hacking anything, it's a simple supported change in the registry to enable the AHCI driver, since Windows disables it if it's not being used.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/922976
I've been running Win7 under AHCI since the first beta released at 2008's PDC. I've also switched the BIOS setting between AHCI/SATA then fully booted into Win7 RTM without issue. Each time it would re-detect the drives, install some drivers, then proceed as normal.
Silent_Buddha
Legend
I've been using AHCI exclusively since Vista. Even easier to enable and use in Win7 however, as there generally isn't a need to install a chipset specific driver during install.
Mostly have AHCI for hot swapping drives as NCQ doesn't do much for normal desktop use.
Regards,
SB
Mostly have AHCI for hot swapping drives as NCQ doesn't do much for normal desktop use.
Regards,
SB
In case there's anyone else out there still rocking an nForce 4 mobo, I've found that the Vista 64 bit 15.23 nForce "Media Shield" (sata/ide) drivers work with Windows 7. No more disappearing HDDs after resume from sleep!
Yeah, DDR is relatively expensive, and I've been looking at new mobo/cpu/ram setups too. It seems insane to spend so much on 2GB of "old" DDR, but at the same time I know that for most of what I do this computer will be good enough for a while yet - even in terms of games.
(And I have a strange urge to fill all my mobo's ram slots.)
Yeah, DDR is relatively expensive, and I've been looking at new mobo/cpu/ram setups too. It seems insane to spend so much on 2GB of "old" DDR, but at the same time I know that for most of what I do this computer will be good enough for a while yet - even in terms of games.
(And I have a strange urge to fill all my mobo's ram slots.)
hoom
Veteran
Something that is really pissing me off is that its not possible to just pin anything you want to the start menu.
Eg I installed a mod for Medieval 2:Total War.
M2TW is intended to have mods load by having a shortcut to a .bat file that runs & passes commands to the .exe file.
The mod installer made a desktop shortcut.
I can pin the shortcut to Start but if I delete the desktop icon then the pinned shortcut is broken.
I can't pin the .bat & I can't pin a shortcut in the installation folder so how the hell am I supposed to clean up my desktop
Eg I installed a mod for Medieval 2:Total War.
M2TW is intended to have mods load by having a shortcut to a .bat file that runs & passes commands to the .exe file.
The mod installer made a desktop shortcut.
I can pin the shortcut to Start but if I delete the desktop icon then the pinned shortcut is broken.
I can't pin the .bat & I can't pin a shortcut in the installation folder so how the hell am I supposed to clean up my desktop
I can't pin the .bat & I can't pin a shortcut in the installation folder so how the hell am I supposed to clean up my desktop
You have to drag it to the pinned menu! they don't want you (or virii) to pin .bat/cmd/vbs files to the start menu
Hmm, weird I thought I'd tried that & it didn't work either but it worked this time
no problem, I found it weird as well but luckily is was in a 2008R2 class.
Just as I've got sleep working and waking up with all HDDs still present, I've discovered that my Win 7 likes sleeping. Too much.
In the middle of downloading a 2GB file from MS, and it goes to sleep. Start again. In the middle of restoring Steam account from a backup, and it goes to sleep. Now the process won't get going again and I'm going to have to delete stuff and start again.
Damn thing is narcoleptic. It doesn't deserve the trust of having its sleep mode enabled.
In the middle of downloading a 2GB file from MS, and it goes to sleep. Start again. In the middle of restoring Steam account from a backup, and it goes to sleep. Now the process won't get going again and I'm going to have to delete stuff and start again.
Damn thing is narcoleptic. It doesn't deserve the trust of having its sleep mode enabled.
I received my Win7 disk from Amazon today and finished installing a couple hours ago. Now working on re-configuring all my stuff again etc, and already the new taskbar is getting my goat. I can't tell the difference between a running program and starting it from scratch!
Like if I minimize IE it goes down into the dock ripoff MS invented. But the icon stays the same as before I started it! Meh. I miss the old taskbar, is there a way to bring it back coz this thing sucks... *Edit: brought it back, it seems. Phew! I noticed the setting earlier but thought I'd check out the default option first, only to find out I didn't like it AND forgot about the setting! I'm getting too old for this shit...
Now, can I get back the quicklaunch bar also...? It was rather convenient methinks.
I can't tell the difference between a running program and starting it from scratch! Like if I minimize IE it goes down into the dock ripoff MS invented. But the icon stays the same as before I started it! Meh. I miss the old taskbar, is there a way to bring it back coz this thing sucks... *Edit: brought it back, it seems. Phew! I noticed the setting earlier but thought I'd check out the default option first, only to find out I didn't like it AND forgot about the setting! I'm getting too old for this shit...
Now, can I get back the quicklaunch bar also...? It was rather convenient methinks.
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It also loves to reboot at every scheduled windows update I've had so far(two times). It also rebooted when I installed ati CCC. Whatever happened to no more reboots?
I couldn't find an option to turn quicklaunch on, but you can create a new toolbar (right click taskbar, toolbars, new toolbar) and then add any shortcuts you want to that. I called mine "Quicklaunch", just to show 7 who's boss.
I've noticed a surprising amount of rebooting too. Not much less than Vista 32-bit tbh.
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